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Old Police House 2 Windmill Hill Exning Suffolk CB8 7LB

DC/15/0683/TPOWorks to TPO'sApproved

Approved on 15 June 2015

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

TPO/2000/03 - Tree Preservation Order - Mature Leylandii adjacent to property boundary wall between 1 & 2 Windmill Hill, Exning - Reduce height by 30% and reduce crown by up to 40% to allow reshaping (Keeping same shape as existing but reducing size). Crown lift 3 metres over buildings at 1 Windmill Hill to prevent future structural damage

Received
31 March 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Exning
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated20 Apr
  3. Consult.11 May
  4. Target15 Jun
  5. Decided15 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Old Police House 2 Windmill Hill Exning Suffolk CB8 7LB. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Exning conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Exning. We hold 1,572 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 7LB
Application type
Works to TPO's
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Exning

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 April 2015
Consultation expiry
22 May 2015
Consultation start
20 April 2015
Consultation end
11 May 2015
Neighbour consultation end
11 May 2015
Target decision date
15 June 2015
Permission expires
15 June 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Stuart Birt 6 Laurel Close Mepal Ely CB6 2BN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 May 2015
Site notice end
22 May 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04086252
Documents
6
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Exning
  • 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

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© 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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