83 Station Road Great Wilbraham Cambridgeshire CB21 5JA Data via plota.co.uk

25/0819/TTPO - Works to TPO trees Approved

Proposal

Poplar - Reduce height by 2m below previous pollard heads and sever ivy at base of main stem up to 2m Reasons - cyclical management of established pollards Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
11 Aug 2025
✓
Approved
22 Sept 2025
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Appeal allowed
23 Mar 2026

Approved on 22 Sept 2025 · Tree - Officer (SCDC) · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Site constraints 5

Grade II listed: 83, Station Road
List entry 1127873 · The pin is inside its outline
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.
Historic England ↗
Green belt: Cambridge
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Agricultural land, grade 2
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.
Also on the record
Tree preservation order 16 m away: GREAT WILBRAHAM Parish; National infrastructure project 951 m away: Kingsway Solar Farm, at pre-application.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 13 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate 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

Application type
Works to TPO trees
Postcode
CB21 5JA
Received
11 Aug 2025
Validated
11 Aug 2025
Ward
Fen Ditton & Fulbourn
Parish
Great Wilbraham CP
Case officer
Show
Target decision
6 Oct 2025
Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
22 Sept 2025
Decision level
Tree - Officer (SCDC)
Appeal
Allowed · 23 Mar 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 6003601 ↗
Applicant
Show
Agent
Eastern Tree Surgery Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 4 days slower than South Cambridgeshire's median of 38 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

93%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
746decided 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 →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 13 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
6 Oct 2025
Env. assessment
No
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

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