Viaduct Farm, Viaduct Farm, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD Data via plota.co.uk
261240 - Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Application Valid
Proposal
Lime Tree (T1) - pollard at low level below rot and where split (see photographs) Lime Trees (T2 & T3) - re pollard Sycamore (T4) - Crown reduction 50% because of excessive shading and rubbing on house - low amenity value Data via plota.co.uk
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Received
10 Jul 2026
Decision
Expected by 4 Sept 2026
This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 16 Sept 2026; it is now day 68.
Site constraints 4
Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Chappel conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site
Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.
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Important details
- Council
- Colchester
- Application type
- Works to Trees in Conservation Area
- Postcode
- CO6 2DD
- Received
- 10 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 10 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Rural North
Decision outlook
Day 68, past the statutory target. 98% of tree works in Colchester are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 9 Oct 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 5 Sept 2026.
Day 6812 days past the 56-day target
91%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
39,210decided in the last year
Plota live figures for tree works decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent tree works in Colchester to go on. Colchester decision record →
Historical activity at this location
27 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
This property
Previous applications at this address
Within ~100m
Nearby activity
2025
Chappel Primary School, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
T1 - Sycamore - Carry out reduction of canopy by 30% (3-4 meters)
2024
Approved
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
i) Refurbishment internal and external alterations to existing coach house to form annexe…
2024
Approved
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Listed building application for refurbishment internal and external alterations to existi…
2024
Approved
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
i) Refurbishment internal and external alterations to existing coach house to form annexe…
2024
Approved
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Listed building application for refurbishment internal and external alterations to existi…
2024
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
T1 - Douglas Fir tree - reduce height by 5.5 meters to 6.5 meters, trimming sides to main…
2024
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
T1 - Douglas Fir tree - reduce height by 5.5 meters to 6.5 meters, trimming sides to main…
2024
Primrose Cottage, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
T1 - Conifer hedge to remove to ground level then to stump grind resulting stumps.
2024
Primrose Cottage, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
T1 - Conifer hedge to remove to ground level then to stump grind resulting stumps.
2024
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
Holly Hedge front of property. Trim and top and both sides by no more than 0.5 meters
2024
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
Holly Hedge front of property. Trim and top and both sides by no more than 0.5 meters
2023
Approved
The Swan, The Swan Inn, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
Proposed single storey outbuilding for serving food
2023
Approved
The Swan, The Swan Inn, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
Proposed single storey outbuilding for serving food
2023
Rosemary, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
T1 - Conifer hedge to be reduced by 50%. T2 - Horse Chestnut needs crown lifting. The rea…
2023
Rosemary, The Street, Chappel Essex CO6 2DD
T1 - Conifer hedge to be reduced by 50%. T2 - Horse Chestnut needs crown lifting. The rea…
2023
Chappel Primary School, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Chappel School have asked us to clear fell two sycamore trees T1 and T2. We believe this…
2023
Chappel Primary School, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Chappel School have asked us to clear fell two sycamore trees T1 and T2. We believe this…
2022
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
x4 Horse Chestnuts (G1) - Re-pollard at previous pollard cuts. The trees run adjacent a b…
2022
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
x4 Horse Chestnuts (G1) - Re-pollard at previous pollard cuts. The trees run adjacent a b…
2022
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel CO6 2DD
Yew (T1) - Remove. Tree has collapsed onto headstones in adjacent churchyard Acacia (T2)…
2018
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel CO6 2DD
Acacia (T1-T2-T3) - Fell group of 3 trees. 1 tree is dead, the other 2are selfset trees o…
2017
Approved
The Swan, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Conversion of outbuilding to form ancillary pub function room.
2017
Approved
The Swan, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Conversion of outbuilding to form ancillary pub function room.
2016
Approved
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Internal and external alterations, demolition of extensions, construction of a new stair…
2016
Approved
Bridgewick Hall, The Street, Chappel Colchester CO6 2DD
Listed building application for internal and external alterations, demolition of extensio…
Colchester
Planning Authority Score
6.2/10
Average
#91 of 296 councils
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Other decisions
Colchester is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #43 out of 296. Only 27% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Colchester is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 84% approved vs 90% nationally.
One of the strictest councils
only 84% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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Colchester decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
82%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #245 of 296
84%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #255 of 296
79%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #43 of 296
27%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #39 of 296
67%
Minor dwellings approved
69 decided (1-9 homes)
85%
Major dwellings approved
13 decided (10+ homes)
75%
Change of use approved
89 decided
1,074
Total decisions
188 refused in the year to March 2026
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