The Old Vicarage 7 St Marys Square Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 2AJ
Approved on 27 February 2025
Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Trees in a conservation area notification - one Plum (T1) one Bay (T2) and one Mulberry (T3) overall crown reduction by up to one metre reducing branches back to previous pruning points
- Received
- 22 January 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Abbeygate
- ReceivedReceived22 Jan
- ValidatedValidated22 Jan
- Consult.Consultation14 Feb
- TargetTarget Date5 Mar
- DecidedDecided27 Feb
Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Old Vicarage 7 St Marys Square Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 2AJ. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 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. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Abbeygate. 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 2AJ
- Application type
- Works to trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bury St Edmunds Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 January 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 February 2025
- Consultation start
- 24 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 14 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 February 2025
- Target decision date
- 5 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 27 February 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Urban Forestry
- Agent address
- The Old Sawmill Ampton Lane Ingham Bury St Edmunds IP31 1NS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13716737
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 14
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: West Suffolk
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