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Willowbrook 1 Brookside Exning Suffolk CB8 7HP

DC/14/2299/TCAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 15 January 2015

Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees in a Conservation Area - North Boundary - Removal of no. 21 Leylandii forming high hedge (replacement mixed/Beech hedge) - South Boundary - Removal of no. 30 Leylandii forming 6ft hedge (replacement with post and rail fence and mixed hedge) - East Boundary - Removal of no. 6 Leylandii forming 6ft hedge (replacement with fencing/trellis and climbing plants) and removal of single 16ft Leylandii tree

Received
4 December 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Exning
  1. Received4 Dec
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.26 Dec
  4. Target15 Jan
  5. Decided15 Jan

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Willowbrook 1 Brookside Exning Suffolk CB8 7HP. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Exning conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Exning. We hold 1,571 applications in total for the CB8 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at West Suffolk Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB8 7HP
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Exning

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2014
Consultation expiry
29 December 2014
Consultation start
5 December 2014
Consultation end
26 December 2014
Neighbour consultation end
26 December 2014
Target decision date
15 January 2015
Permission expires
15 January 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 December 2014
Site notice end
29 December 2014

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Exning

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

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© 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: West Suffolk

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