13-14 Ounce House, The Northgate Northgate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1HP
Approved on 28 May 2025
Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Trees in a conservation area notification - one Holly (T1 on plan) crown reduction in height by four metres
- Received
- 25 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Eastgate
- ReceivedReceived25 Apr
- ValidatedValidated25 Apr
- Consult.Consultation21 May
- TargetTarget Date6 Jun
- DecidedDecided28 May
Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 13-14 Ounce House, The Northgate Northgate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1HP. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Bury St Edmunds Town Centre conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Eastgate. 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 1HP
- Application type
- Works to trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bury St Edmunds Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 21 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 29 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 21 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 June 2025
- Permission expires
- 28 May 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hamish Dickson Tree Specialist
- Agent address
- Hamish Dickson Tree Specialist 56 The Causeway Burwell Cambridge CB25 0DU
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Debbie Cooper
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13972476
- Documents
- 6
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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Source: West Suffolk
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