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St Matthews Centre Sturton Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2QF

25/0081/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 27 March 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T6 - London Plane - Crown raise over path by 1-2m T10 - London Plane - Crown raise by approx 1m - so sign can be seen T12 - London Plane - Crown raise above car park by approx 1m T13 - London Plane - Crown raise above path and road by approx 1m so sign can be seen T15 - London Plane - Clear crown below street lamp & Crown raise above junction and path by 1-2m T17 - Common Lime - Remove the lower branch next to car parking (which has sharp, eye level pointed sections.) & remove epicormic growth to first true path and remove all deadwood throughout tree T23 London Plane - raise the crown 1-2m over the street lighting only.

Received
23 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Petersfield
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated31 Jan
  3. Consult.18 Feb
  4. Target28 Mar
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Matthews Centre Sturton Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2QF. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 2 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Mill Road conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 156 applications across Petersfield. We hold 1,406 applications in total for the CB1 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
CB1 2QF
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 January 2025
Last date for comments
18 February 2025
Target decision date
28 March 2025
Permission expires
27 March 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
AJB Tree Care
Agent address
45 High Street Tetsworth Thame OX9 7AD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Mill Road
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 04/2005Protected tree on or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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

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