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The Vicarage 86 High Street Bottisham Cambridgeshire CB25 9BA

23/00842/TREWork to tree within Conservation areaApproved

Approved on 24 August 2023

Council decision: Allow (TREE)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T2. Apple - Fell T4. Wild Plum - Crown lift over grass (2.5m) and prune to clear edge of gateway (1m) also remove major dead wood and ivy T5. Elder - Fell T6. Plum - Remove ivy, crown lift to 3m over drive T7. Irish Yew - Prune in worst of splayed branches, sever ivy at base T8. Wild Plum - Remove hanging branch and major deadwood. Sever ivy at base. Crown lift overhang to 2.5m. Fell self-set Sycamore within crown. T9. Lawson's cypress - Fell to low stump T10. Group of Plum, Holly & Ash - Fell to ground level and treat (all within a 3m section of wall), including ivy. T11. Group of Plums - Prune back to within boundary wall up to a height of 4m above footpath/road T12. Cherry - Crown lift to 3m over path and shorten branches to clear road edge by 1m T15. Laburnum - Fell T18. Apple - Fell T26. Plum - Prune to clear guttering by 1-2m

Received
28 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bottisham
  1. Received28 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Sep
  5. Decided24 Aug

Decided in 27 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Vicarage 86 High Street Bottisham Cambridgeshire CB25 9BA. East Cambridgeshire has handled 1,134 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 2 weeks quicker than East Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bottisham conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Bottisham. We hold 1,521 applications in total for the CB25 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at East Cambridgeshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB25 9BA
Application type
Work to tree within Conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bottisham

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 July 2023
Consultation start
24 August 2023
Target decision date
8 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Tim Hewitt 27 High Street Cottenham CB24 8SA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12348433
Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bottisham
  • Listed building: Grade II: Golden BallOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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Source: East Cambridgeshire

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