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Stoke College Stoke College Stoke By Clare Sudbury CO108JE

SE/08/0857Works to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 17 July 2008

Council decision: Approve application

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Proposal

TCA08/1631 - Trees in a Conservation Area Notification(i) Fell two Norway Spruce trees (0024/0025 on plan), one Walnut tree (0028), one Sycamore tree (0039) and one Laburnum tree (0048); (ii) Pollard to 3.66 metres three Sycamore trees to original cutback (0031); (iii) 25% crown thin and reduction of heavy limbs overhanging classroom back to building line (including counterbalance to limbs over the car park and close to the road to one Beech tree (0032); (iv) 30% reduction in height and 10% crown thin to one Beech tree (0033); (v) 15% crown thin to one Walnut tree (0034); (vi) 50% reduction to one large limb and 10% crown reduction to one Ash tree (0035); (vii) 10% crown thin and cut back overhang over building to 2.44 metres from building line to one Walnut tree (0036); (viii) 30% crown reduction and cut back overhang over building to 2.44 metres from building line to one Walnut tree (0037) - also reduce one unbalanced limb by 2.44 metres to one Walnut tree (0035 or 0036); (ix) 50% crown reduction to one Sycamore tree (0038) and (x) 30% crown reduction and 15% crown thin to one Chestnut tree (0047).

Received
16 June 2008
Ward
Clare, Hundon And Kedington
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.4 Jul
  4. Target27 Jul
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Stoke College Stoke College Stoke By Clare Sudbury CO108JE. West Suffolk has handled 1,375 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker than West Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Stoke-by-Clare conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Clare, Hundon And Kedington. We hold 3,166 applications in total for the CO10 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
CO10 8JE
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stoke-by-Clare

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2008
Consultation expiry
4 July 2008
Consultation start
18 June 2008
Consultation end
4 July 2008
Target decision date
27 July 2008
Permission expires
15 June 2010

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Gilbert & Sullivan Forestry 10 Vanners Road Haverhill CB9 8NR

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Documents
3
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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