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Lutheran Church 4 Shaftesbury Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8BW

26/0071/TTCAWorks to CA treesApproved

Approved on 3 March 2026

Council decision: Have No Objection ToDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Small Mulberry T1 - raise canopy all round by 0.5m Larger Mulberry T2 - raise canopy all round by 0.5 - 1m, reduce tallest sections by 1.5m to clear phone line and windows Fig T5 - raise canopy to clear flat roof by 1m.

Received
23 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Petersfield
Agent
Eastern Tree Surgery Ltd
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.10 Feb
  4. Target6 Mar
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 39 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Lutheran Church 4 Shaftesbury Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8BW. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Brooklands Avenue conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 157 applications across Petersfield. 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 8BW
Application type
Works to CA trees
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2026
Last date for comments
10 February 2026
Target decision date
6 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Eastern Tree Surgery Ltd
Agent address
7 Heath Road Swaffham Prior Swaffham Prior Cambridge CB25 0LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Brooklands Avenue
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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