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

25/1438/TTCA - Works to CA trees Approved

Proposal

G1 - Taxus baccata outgrown hedge - Crown reduction to 2m away from building and up to up to 1.5m to rest of crown. T1 - Crataegus pinnatifida var. major - Fell tree to ground level. T2 - Fraxinus sp - Fell tree to ground level. G2- 2no Cryptomeria japonica 1no Chamaecyparis lawsoniana - Thin group by removing to ground level. Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

11 Dec 2025

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Approved

6 Jan 2026

Approved on 6 Jan 2026 · Tree - Officer (SCDC) · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents 5

Site constraints 8

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.

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. 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.

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 ↗

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; National infrastructure project 548 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application.

Not affected

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

Checked on 2 November 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.

Building

Floor area122 m² (1,313 sq ft)

Energy ratingA (asset rating 15)

UseD1 Non-residential Institutions - Education

HeatingHeating and Natural Ventilation

From the energy performance certificate lodged in June 2015, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council: Cambridge
Application type: Works to CA trees
Postcode: CB2 1JE
Received: 11 Dec 2025
Validated: 11 Dec 2025
Ward: Petersfield
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 22 Jan 2026
Decision: Have No Objection To
Decision date: 6 Jan 2026
Decision level: Tree - Officer (SCDC)
Applicant: Show
Agent: Cambridge University Botanic Garden

How this decision compares

Decided in 26 days from validation, 10 days faster than Cambridge's median of 36 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one26d

Council36d

UK37d

94%decided within 8 weeks

96%approved

662decided 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.

9 neighbours consulted · Last counted 3 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 22 Jan 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

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

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 5

Decision & officer reports 1

Application forms 2

Consultation & comments 1

Other documents 1