Scott Polar Research Institute Lensfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1ER
Approved on 3 October 2024
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
5 no. Common lime (T25-T29 on TPO 16/1992) and 1 no. London Plan (T007, or T30 on TPO 16/1992) Raise crowns to 4.0 m above ground level, to facilitate the installation of portacabins for ongoing site works within the University campus. Installation of temporary ground protection measures, as per LoAA, directly beneath legs of cabins and along proposed pedestrian routes within the Root Protection Areas (RPAs) of the trees noted above.
- Received
- 12 July 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Market
- ReceivedReceived12 Jul
- ValidatedValidated12 Jul
- Consult.Consultation30 Jul
- TargetTarget Date6 Sep
- DecidedDecided3 Oct
Decided in 83 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Scott Polar Research Institute Lensfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1ER. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 5 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the New Town and Glisson Road conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 207 applications across Market. We hold 680 applications in total for the CB2 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
- CB2 1ER
- Application type
- Works to TPO trees
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 July 2024
- Last date for comments
- 30 July 2024
- Target decision date
- 6 September 2024
- Permission expires
- 3 October 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Currie & Brown
- Agent address
- Wellington House East Road Cambridge CB1 1BH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: New Town And Glisson Road
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 16/1992Protected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
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