Gurdon Institute Tennis Court Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1QN
Approved on 24 April 2025
Council decision: Have No Objection ToDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1- Magnolia grandiflora- reduce in height by 1.5 meters, reduce in spread over footpath by 60cms to maintain in its current location.
- Received
- 21 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Market
- ReceivedReceived21 Mar
- ValidatedValidated21 Mar
- Consult.Consultation8 Apr
- TargetTarget Date2 May
- DecidedDecided24 Apr
Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Gurdon Institute Tennis Court Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1QN. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 1QN
- Application type
- Works to CA trees
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 8 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 2 May 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Oakes and Watson
- Agent address
- 17 West End Haddenham Ely CB6 3TD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Historic Core
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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