56 William Smith Close Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3QF
Approved on 14 October 2025
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T11 - Acacia - Reduce back to previous points, approximately 3m, all round
- Received
- 13 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Romsey
- Agent
- The Joshua Tree (Suffolk) Ltd
- ReceivedReceived13 Aug
- ValidatedValidated26 Aug
- Consult.Consultation12 Sep
- TargetTarget Date21 Oct
- DecidedDecided14 Oct
Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 56 William Smith Close Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3QF. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 102 applications across Romsey. 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 3QF
- Application type
- Works to TPO trees
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 August 2025
- Last date for comments
- 12 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 21 October 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- The Joshua Tree (Suffolk) Ltd
- Agent address
- Half Acre Lodge Half Acre Drove Kenny Hill IP28 8DT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Mill RoadPart of the site
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 10/2017Protected 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
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