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26/0685/TTCA - Works to CA trees Approved

Proposal

T1: Fagus sylvatica "Laciniata" - Crown lift over access path by up to 3m from ground level (up to 15cm diameter wood) T2: Acer psuedoplatanus - Fell to ground level T3: Betula x caerula - Reduce major limb to North by up to 3m (up to 12.5cm diameter wood) T4: Crataegus laciniata - Remove epicormic growth at base T5: Crataegus x persimilis - Fell to ground level T6: Platycladus orientalis - Fell to ground level T7: Prunus x hillieri 'Spire' - Fell to ground level T8: Ilex x altaclerensis - Fell to ground level T9: Sorbus aucuparia - Fell to ground level T10: Taxus baccata - Reduce crown to clear building by 1m (up to 7.5cm diameter wood) T11: Betula pendula - Fell to ground level T12: Taxus baccata - Reduce crown to clear building by up to 1m (up to 7.5cm diameter wood) T13: Malus pumila - Fell to ground level T14: Malus pumila - Fell to ground level T15: Malus pumila - Fell to ground level T16: Malus prattii - Fell to ground level T17: Cerasus serrulata 'Ukon' - Fell to ground level T18: Betula jacquemontii - Fell to ground level T19: Betula "Fetisowii" - Fell to ground level… Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 12 Sept 2026, 03:37

Application progress

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Received

7 Jul 2026

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Approved

19 Aug 2026

Approved on 19 Aug 2026 · Tree - Delegated (CBG) · Last checked 20 Aug 2026

Documents 7

Site constraints 7

Registered park or garden: Botanic Garden, Cambridge

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

New Town And Glisson Road 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 ↗

Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

Air quality management area: Cambridge AQMA

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

Council record ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. A site survey can differ.

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.

Local nature reserve 291 m away: Sheep's Green and Coe Fen

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

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Important details

Council: Cambridge
Application type: Works to CA trees
Postcode: CB2 1JF
Received: 7 Jul 2026
Validated: 7 Jul 2026
Ward: Petersfield
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Aug 2026
Decision: Have No Objection To
Decision date: 19 Aug 2026
Decision level: Tree - Delegated (CBG)
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 43 days from validation, 6 days slower than Cambridge's median of 37 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 94% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one43d

Council37d

UK36d

97%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

246decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

48 neighbours consulted · Last counted 20 Aug 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

50 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden Bateman Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1JF Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 7

Decision & officer reports 1

Statements & assessments 1

Application forms 2

Consultation & comments 1

Other documents 2

Site constraints 7

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