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The Recreation Ground Wratting Road Great Thurlow Suffolk CB9 7LJ

DC/26/0253/TCAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 26 March 2026

Council decision: No objectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Trees in a conservation area notification - one horse chestnut (T1 on plan) fell, one ash (T2 on plan) crown lift up to 5.5m above ground level by pruning secondary and tertiary branch structure only

Received
16 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Withersfield
Agent
ABCTree Ltd
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated16 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target30 Mar
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Recreation Ground Wratting Road Great Thurlow Suffolk CB9 7LJ. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Great and Little Thurlow conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Withersfield. We hold 370 applications in total for the CB9 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
CB9 7LJ
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Thurlow

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 February 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
23 February 2026
Consultation end
16 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
19 March 2026
Target decision date
30 March 2026
Permission expires
26 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
ABCTree Ltd
Agent address
61 Streetly End West Wickham CB21 4RP

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14673747
Documents
5
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Great and Little Thurlow
  • Listed building: Grade II: BridgeOn or next to this site · +2 more

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.

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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