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77-81 Chequers House Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8EU

23/1189/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 28 November 2023

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Plane trees x 3 - raise canopies to give a 3m clearance below, remove minor crossing branches, nip in branches in crowns extending out of natural shape of crowns, back in line with crown. Cut back Plane number 1 to give a 2m clearance from building, remove larger pieces of dead wood in crowns.

Received
6 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Market
  1. Received6 Oct
  2. Validated6 Oct
  3. Consult.24 Oct
  4. Target1 Dec
  5. Decided28 Nov

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 77-81 Chequers House Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8EU. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Riverside and Stourbridge Common conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 207 applications across Market. We hold 537 applications in total for the CB5 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
CB5 8EU
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 October 2023
Consultation expiry
24 October 2023
Neighbour consultation end
24 October 2023
Last date for comments
24 October 2023
Target decision date
1 December 2023
Permission expires
28 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ashtons Legal
Agent address
77 Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8EE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Riverside
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 32/2014Protected tree on or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: 73 Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8EGRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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