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The Coach House 39A High Street Ixworth Suffolk IP31 2HJ

DC/25/1822/TCAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 22 December 2025

Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Trees in a conservation area notification - one sycamore (marked T1 on plan) - remove the lowest lateral branch on the north side of the crown, one yew (marked T2 on plan) remove the lowest lateral branch that overhangs the driveway to the south and shorten by up to 1.5 metres in length the remaining branches that overhang the drive

Received
17 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ixworth
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.10 Dec
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Coach House 39A High Street Ixworth Suffolk IP31 2HJ. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Ixworth conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Ixworth. We hold 1,715 applications in total for the IP31 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
IP31 2HJ
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ixworth & Ixworth Thorpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2025
Consultation expiry
10 December 2025
Consultation start
19 November 2025
Consultation end
10 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
10 December 2025
Target decision date
29 December 2025
Permission expires
22 December 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Urban Forestry
Agent address
Urban Forestry The Old Sawmill Ampton Lane Ingham Bury St Edmunds IP31 1NS

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14491151
Documents
5
Constraints
8

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 (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.

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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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