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Acorns Stanningfield Road Great Whelnetham Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 0TL

DC/20/0953/TPOWorks to TPO'sApproved

Approved on 10 September 2020

Council decision: Approve applicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

TPO 111 (1970) - Tree Preservation Order - (i) 1no. Oak (T1 on plan, within area A1 on order) - Crown reduce by up to 2 metres all round & Crown raise to 5m, (ii) 2no. Oak (T2 & T3 on plan, within area A1 on order) - Reduce crown height by up to 4 metres, (iii) 1no. Oak (T4 on plan, within area A1 on order) - Reduce crown height by up to 3 metres, (iv) 1no. Oak (T5 on plan, within area A1 on order) - Reduce crown height by up to 4 metres & Reduce upper crown lateral spread by up to 2 metres, (v) 1no. Oak (T6 on plan, within area A1 on order) - Reduce crown to west by up to 1m, (vi) 1no. Oak (T7 on plan, within area A1 on order) - fell.

Received
11 June 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Horringer
  1. Received11 Jun
  2. Validated11 Jun
  3. Consult.8 Sep
  4. Target6 Aug
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Acorns Stanningfield Road Great Whelnetham Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 0TL. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Sicklesmere conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Horringer. We hold 1,122 applications in total for the IP30 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
IP30 0TL
Application type
Works to TPO's
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great And Little Whelnetham

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 June 2020
Consultation expiry
8 September 2020
Consultation start
1 September 2020
Consultation end
8 September 2020
Neighbour consultation end
8 September 2020
Target decision date
6 August 2020
Permission expires
10 September 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Poplar Cottage The Street Bradfield Combust Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP30 0LP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: SicklesmerePart of the site
  • 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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© 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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