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Sicklesmere House Little Whelnetham Road Great Whelnetham Suffolk IP30 0BX

DC/24/0958/TCAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 19 August 2024

Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Trees in a Conservation Area Notification - one Poplar (T1 on plan) fell; one Greengage and three Plum trees (T2 and G3 on plan) reduce crown height by 1.5 metres and reduce crown spread by 1.5 metres

Received
8 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Horringer
  1. Received8 Jul
  2. Validated8 Jul
  3. Consult.31 Jul
  4. Target19 Aug
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Sicklesmere House Little Whelnetham Road Great Whelnetham Suffolk IP30 0BX. 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 Sicklesmere conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. 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 0BX
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great And Little Whelnetham

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 July 2024
Consultation expiry
31 July 2024
Consultation start
10 July 2024
Consultation end
31 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end
31 July 2024
Target decision date
19 August 2024
Permission expires
19 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Gadd Brothers trees and landscapes
Agent address
Wood Farm Brand Road Great Barton Bury St. Edmunds IP31 2NY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13223814
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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: West Suffolk

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