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Flint House 6 The Great Churchyard Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1RS

DC/25/0274/TCAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 27 March 2025

Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Trees in a conservation area notification - two Lime and one Holly (black dots, circle on plan) remove branches overhanging boundary wall

Received
15 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbeygate
  1. Received15 Feb
  2. Validated15 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target29 Mar
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Flint House 6 The Great Churchyard Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1RS. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 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. 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 1RS
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury St Edmunds Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 February 2025
Consultation expiry
20 March 2025
Consultation start
27 February 2025
Consultation end
20 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
13 March 2025
Target decision date
29 March 2025
Permission expires
27 March 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13780311
Documents
5
Constraints
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, 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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