73-79 Henry Giles House Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3BQ
Approved on 12 February 2024
Council decision: Have No Objection ToDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Approx 30 trees (Mixed hedge) of various heights of self set Acers, Sambucus Nigra, Magnolia, Pyracantha and Viburnum - max height of 5m - reduce height of entire hedge down to a height of 2m to create a tidy space.
- Received
- 1 November 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- West Chesterton
- ReceivedReceived1 Nov
- ValidatedValidated19 Dec
- Consult.Consultation2 Jan
- TargetTarget Date30 Jan
- DecidedDecided12 Feb
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 73-79 Henry Giles House Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3BQ. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 103 days, 8 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Castle and Victoria Road conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across West Chesterton. We hold 1,501 applications in total for the CB4 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
- CB4 3BQ
- Application type
- Works to CA trees
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 December 2023
- Last date for comments
- 2 January 2024
- Target decision date
- 30 January 2024
- Permission expires
- 12 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Bartlett Tree Experts
- Agent address
- Oak Farm Bedford Road Northill SG18 9AW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 14
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Castle And Victoria Road
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 23/2012Protected tree on or next to this site
- Brownfield land register: Henry Giles House Chesterton RoadRegister site at or near this address · +2 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Cambridge
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