38 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE Data via plota.co.uk

26/0508/TTCA - Works to CA trees Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1: Ash (front drive) - Crown reduce by approx. 1m to control size and reduce dominance and sail. T2: Mature Cherry (rear garden) - Crown reduce by approx. 1m to control size and reduce dominance and sail. Data via plota.co.uk

Track application Save this application and get an email when its status or decision changes. Alerts nearby Get email alerts for new planning applications near this address.
View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
21 May 2026
✓
Approved
25 Jun 2026

Approved on 25 Jun 2026 · Tree - Officer (SCDC) · Last checked 9 Jul 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION NOTICE Application Decision Notice · 25 Jun 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF 38 CHURCH STREET SKETCH PLAN Photographs · 21 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 2

PDF APPLICATION FORM - NO PERSONAL INFO Application Information · 21 May 2026 View ↗ PDF FEE CALCULATION Application Information · 21 May 2026 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER Application Officer Correspondence · 22 May 2026 View ↗ PDF ATTACHMENT SUMMARY FROM PORTAL Attachment Summary · 21 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

Thriplow 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.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. 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.
6 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Honeysuckle Cottage, Grade II, about 46 m from the postcode pin · 6 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Show all 6 with distances
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
SSSI about 492 m away: Thriplow Meadows SSSI.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £935,000 in November 2019. Detached house, freehold.

1 November 2019£935,000
30 July 2004£530,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Building

Floor area168 m² (1,808 sq ft)
Energy ratingD (56 out of 100), could reach B
PropertyDetached house, 7 habitable rooms
Built1983 to 1990
HeatingBoiler and radiators, oil
WallsTimber frame, as built, insulated (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in June 2019, the latest held for this property, matched to this application by its address. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

Work with planning data?

Every application in South Cambridgeshire - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Other new applications on this street

28 Sept 2026Pending

37 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE

Spruce - reduce height by 5 -6m to top of honeysuckle Cypress - reduce height by...

26/1110/TTCA
21 Sept 2026Pending

48 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE

Ash - remove deadwood throughout crown, raise canopy adjacent to driveway by 1.5...

26/1071/TTCA
14 Sept 2026Pending

47 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE

Ash tree - Reduce lateral limbs on lower crown to reduce weight and prevent dang...

26/1004/TTCA
28 Apr 2026Approved

23 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE

T1 - Cherry (right hand side of entrance drive) - Crown reduce by 3m to previous...

26/0429/TTCA

Nearby new applications

28 Sept 2026Pending

Adjacent To Paddock View 5 Rectory Farmyard Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RD

T1 - White Poplar, remove to ground level T2 - White Poplar, reduce the canopy b...

26/1105/TTCA
28 Sept 2026Pending

37 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE

Spruce - reduce height by 5 -6m to top of honeysuckle Cypress - reduce height by...

26/1110/TTCA
21 Sept 2026Pending

48 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE

Ash - remove deadwood throughout crown, raise canopy adjacent to driveway by 1.5...

26/1071/TTCA
18 Sept 2026Pending

Barkers Close School Lane Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RH

Erection of two storey extension to existing dwelling.

26/03564/HFUL
14 Sept 2026Pending

47 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE

Ash tree - Reduce lateral limbs on lower crown to reduce weight and prevent dang...

26/1004/TTCA
12 Aug 2026Pending

Land Known As The Spinney, Adjacent To 9 The Green Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7QX

T2 Sycamore - fell - very poor union and leaning tree T3 Ash - fell - poor union...

26/0866/TTPO

Important details

Council
South Cambridgeshire
Application type
Works to CA trees
Postcode
SG8 7RE
Received
21 May 2026
Validated
21 May 2026
Ward
Whittlesford
Parish
Thriplow And Heathfield CP
Case officer
Show
Target decision
2 Jul 2026
Decision
Have No Objection To
Decision date
25 Jun 2026
Decision level
Tree - Officer (SCDC)
Applicant
Show
Agent
Shelford Tree Service Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 35 days from validation, about the council's usual 37 days. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

94%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
493decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by South Cambridgeshire in the last twelve months, from validation. South Cambridgeshire decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
2 Jul 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
20 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
T1: Sycamore - Top and fell as close to ground level as possible to enhance development o…
25/1383/TTCA
2025 Approved
20 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
T1: Sycamore - Top and fell as close to ground level as possible to enhance development o…
25/1383/TTCA
2025 Approved
43 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Air Source Heat Pump and the reinstatement of fencing on a pre-existing fence line
25/03739/HFUL
2025 Approved
43 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Air Source Heat Pump and the reinstatement of fencing on a pre-existing fence line
25/03739/HFUL
2025 Approved
43 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Single Storey Rear Extension and Two Storey Side Extension including associated fenestrat…
25/00323/HFUL
2025 Approved
43 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Single Storey Rear Extension and Two Storey Side Extension including associated fenestrat…
25/00323/HFUL
2024 Approved
43 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
T8 - Leyland Cypress - Remove T9 - Rowan - Remove T10 - Lawson Cypress (Elwoodii) - Remov…
24/0922/TTCA
2024 Approved
43 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
T8 - Leyland Cypress - Remove T9 - Rowan - Remove T10 - Lawson Cypress (Elwoodii) - Remov…
24/0922/TTCA
2024 Approved
32 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
T.1 Cherry - Crown reduce canopy by 30%. Height is be approx 2M reduction and laterals ap…
24/0721/TTCA
2024 Approved
32 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
T.1 Cherry - Crown reduce canopy by 30%. Height is be approx 2M reduction and laterals ap…
24/0721/TTCA
2024 Approved
35 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Hawthorn - Fell Beech - Reduce height and spread on all sides by 1 - 1.5m back to previou…
24/0373/TTCA
2024 Approved
35 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Hawthorn - Fell Beech - Reduce height and spread on all sides by 1 - 1.5m back to previou…
24/0373/TTCA
2022 Approved
39 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
1) Holly - reduce crown by up to 1m 2) Thuja - reduce crown by up to 1m all round, reduce…
22/0964/TTCA
2022 Approved
39 Church Street Thriplow Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
1) Holly - reduce crown by up to 1m 2) Thuja - reduce crown by up to 1m all round, reduce…
22/0964/TTCA
2021 Approved
32 Church Street Thriplow SG8 7RE
T.1 - Horse Chestnut - fell to ground level due to bleeding canker appearing in the lower…
21/1667/TTCA
2021 Approved
32 Church Street Thriplow SG8 7RE
T.1 - Horse Chestnut - fell to ground level due to bleeding canker appearing in the lower…
21/1667/TTCA
2021 Approved
38 Church Street Thriplow SG8 7RE
Sycamore tree at the front boundary needs to have branches removed to allow clearance for…
21/1448/TTCA
2021 Approved
38 Church Street Thriplow SG8 7RE
Sycamore tree at the front boundary needs to have branches removed to allow clearance for…
21/1448/TTCA
2021 Approved
47 Church Street Thriplow SG8 7RE
Replacement of front door, rear living room window with french doors and front living roo…
21/04798/LBC
2021 Approved
47 Church Street Thriplow Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Erection of a timber summerhouse in place of a pre-existing wooden shed in the rear garde…
21/04796/HFUL
2017 Approved
47 Church Street Thriplow Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Fell Blue Spruce Conifer in front garden - See application for details
S/2037/17/TC
2017 Approved
35 Church Street Thriplow Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Replacement of existing concrete interlocking tile roof finish to house and Approved exte…
S/0075/17/FL
2017 Approved
35 Church Street Thriplow Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Replacement of existing concrete interlocking tile roof finish to house and Approved exte…
S/0075/17/FL
2016 Approved
35 Church Street Thriplow Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Proposed two storey rear extension alterations to fenestration and associated alterations
S/0760/16/FL
2016 Approved
35 Church Street Thriplow Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE
Proposed two storey rear extension alterations to fenestration and associated alterations
S/0760/16/FL
South Cambridgeshire
Planning Authority Score
8.1/10
Excellent
#25 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

South Cambridgeshire is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #24 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
South Cambridgeshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #45 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #91 of 296
84%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #24 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #60 of 296
86%
Minor dwellings approved
215 decided (1-9 homes)
96%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
79%
Change of use approved
38 decided
1,509
Total decisions
96 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.