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Great Bentley Primary School Plough Road Great Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8LD

21/00574/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 12 May 2021

Council decision: Approval - FullDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

6 No. Horse Chestnut Trees - Cut back lower branches to give clearance.

Received
31 March 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
The Bentleys & Frating
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated31 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Great Bentley Primary School Plough Road Great Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8LD. Tendring has handled 899 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Tendring's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Bentley conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across The Bentleys & Frating. We hold 2,586 applications in total for the CO7 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Tendring District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CO7 8LD
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Bentley Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 March 2021
Target decision date
12 May 2021
Permission expires
12 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Roxburgh Colchester Main Road Alresford Essex CO7 8DG

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Great Bentley
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Tendring

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