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Shire Hall, Old Police Station Castle Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0AP

23/0564/TTCAWorks to CA treesApproved

Approved on 21 August 2023

Council decision: Have No Objection ToDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 self-seeded ash tree close to east wall of cell block, as shown on page 7 of the attached report and identified with the blue circle numbered 1 on the attached plan. Remove tree and grub out the roots as recommended under section 5.1.4 of the report. Please note that the other recommended works (5.1.1 and 5.1.2) have already been undertaken. T2 Sycamore, identified by the red circle numbered 2 on the attached plan. Remove this tree and grub out the roots, due it being dangerously close to an electricity substation and posing risk to the installation. T3 young self-seeded sycamore, identified by the orange circle numbered 3 on the attached plan. Remove this tree in its entirety. This is growing within a current bike shelter and, whilst very young, I wished to include it in this application for confirmation we are able to remove it.

Received
9 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.26 Jun
  4. Target21 Jul
  5. Decided21 Aug

Decided in 73 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Shire Hall, Old Police Station Castle Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0AP. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 3 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Castle and Victoria Road conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 119 applications across Castle. We hold 690 applications in total for the CB3 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at Cambridge City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB3 0AP
Application type
Works to CA trees
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2023
Consultation expiry
26 June 2023
Neighbour consultation end
26 June 2023
Last date for comments
26 June 2023
Target decision date
21 July 2023
Permission expires
21 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
74

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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