Oak Cottage Holywell Front Holywell St Ives PE27 4TG Data via plota.co.uk

26/00080/TRCA - Works to Tree in Con Area Approved

Proposal

T1 Oak to left of garden: reduce by 1.5m laterally away from neighbouring property at No. 2 Fairbank T2 Willow in centre of garden: repollard to 4m/reduce new growth by 2m Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
15 Jan 2026
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Approved
21 Jan 2026

Approved on 21 Jan 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 7 Jul 2026

Site constraints 9

Holywell 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) agrees.
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.
7 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Spring Cottage, Grade II, about 22 m from the postcode pin · 7 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.
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Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; National infrastructure project about 269 m away: Fens Reservoir, at pre-application; Flood defence about 37 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 5 year flood); Open access land about 18 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed.; Priority habitat about 40 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
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, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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 1

Last sold for £607,500 in August 2007. Detached house, freehold.

29 August 2007£607,500

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

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Important details

Application type
Works to Tree in Con Area
Postcode
PE27 4TG
Received
15 Jan 2026
Validated
15 Jan 2026
Ward
Holywell-cum-Needingworth
Parish
Holywell-cum-Needingworth
Case officer
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Target decision
26 Feb 2026
Decision
Consent to
Decision date
21 Jan 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Cambridge Trees Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 6 days from validation, 13 days faster than Huntingdonshire's median of 19 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

87%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
242decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14624372
Planning Portal ref
PP-14624372
Statutory expiry
26 Feb 2026
Env. assessment
No
Huntingdonshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#197 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Huntingdonshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #210 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Huntingdonshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #155 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #80 of 296
55%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #210 of 296
55%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #250 of 296
69%
Minor dwellings approved
175 decided (1-9 homes)
91%
Major dwellings approved
22 decided (10+ homes)
87%
Change of use approved
52 decided
1,077
Total decisions
125 refused in the year to March 2026

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