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42 Abbey Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8HQ

26/0702/TTCAWorks to CA treesApproved

Approved on 2 October 2026

Council decision: Have No Objection To

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Large Bay at end of rear garden approx 16ms high - Reduce height by approx. 6ms to leave at 10ms high and trim back remaining laterals by approximately 0.5 to 1m to rebalance and shape remaining crown.

Received
9 July 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 4 October 2026
Ward
Abbey
Agent
Acacia Tree Surgery Ltd
  1. Received9 Jul
  2. Validated23 Jul
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target3 Sep
  5. Decided2 Oct

Decided in 71 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 42 Abbey Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8HQ. Cambridge has handled 1,228 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 5 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Riverside and Stourbridge Common conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Abbey. We hold 537 applications in total for the CB5 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
CB5 8HQ
Application type
Works to CA trees
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 July 2026
Last date for comments
6 August 2026
Target decision date
3 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Acacia Tree Surgery Ltd
Agent address
63 Winfold Road Waterbeach CB25 9PR

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Riverside
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 11/2015Protected 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

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.

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