5 Friars Lane Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QQ
Approved on 27 November 2025
Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Trees in a conservation area notification - one Lime (T1 on plan) re pollard back to previous pruning points
- Received
- 21 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Suffolk Council
- Ward
- Abbeygate
- Agent
- Leon brown Arb-agri contracting Ltd
- ReceivedReceived21 Oct
- ValidatedValidated21 Oct
- Consult.Consultation14 Nov
- TargetTarget Date2 Dec
- DecidedDecided27 Nov
Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 5 Friars Lane Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1QQ. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Bury St Edmunds Town Centre conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Abbeygate. We hold 485 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 1QQ
- Application type
- Works to trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bury St Edmunds Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 14 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 22 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 14 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 2 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 27 November 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Leon brown Arb-agri contracting Ltd
- Agent address
- 3 Cornwalis Close West Stow Bury St Edmunds IP28 6EU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14428778
- Documents
- 5
- Constraints
- 10
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 (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: West Suffolk
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