3 Chequer Square Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QZ
Approved on 26 September 2024
Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Trees in a conservation area notification - a. one Cotoneaster (T1) one Laburnam (T5) and one Pear (T6) fell b. one Cherry (T3) and one Laburnam (T4) reduce height by two metres c. one Cedar (T2) reduce height by three metres, spread by 1.5 metres and crown raise to four metres above ground level
- Received
- 18 August 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Abbeygate
- Agent
- wickens tree services
- ReceivedReceived18 Aug
- ValidatedValidated18 Aug
- Consult.Consultation14 Sep
- TargetTarget Date29 Sep
- DecidedDecided26 Sep
Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 3 Chequer Square Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QZ. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Bury St Edmunds Town Centre conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 486 applications in total for the IP33 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
- IP33 1QZ
- Application type
- Works to trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bury St Edmunds Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 August 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 18 September 2024
- Consultation start
- 23 August 2024
- Consultation end
- 14 September 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 September 2024
- Target decision date
- 29 September 2024
- Permission expires
- 26 September 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- wickens tree services
- Agent address
- 3C Lilac Drive, Lakenheath Brandon IP27 9DX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13342044
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 15
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Bury St Edmunds Town Centre
- 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 (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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