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Fairfield Lodge 26 Townsend Soham Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 5DB

24/01240/TREWork to tree within Conservation areaApproved

Approved on 8 January 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Y- Norway Maple - Reduce height by circa 3m creating a new canopy. Reduce laterals by circa 1m N- Silver Birch - Small dead birch, fell to ground level G- Prunus (leaning) - Full canopy reduction by up to 1m while reducing limbs away from the pathway. F- Common Horse chestnut in decline - Retrenchment prune, remove dead wood. E- Willow - Re-Pollard back to previous pollard points

Received
27 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Soham North
  1. Received27 Nov
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target15 Jan
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Fairfield Lodge 26 Townsend Soham Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 5DB. East Cambridgeshire has handled 1,134 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days. The site is in the Soham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Soham North. We hold 653 applications in total for the CB7 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
CB7 5DB
Application type
Work to tree within Conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Soham

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2024
Consultation start
8 January 2025
Target decision date
15 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Martin Du Preez Cottage Farm Silver Street Wethersfield CM7 4BP

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13597381
Comments
0
Documents
2
Constraints
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Soham
  • Listed building: Grade II: Fairfield LodgeOn this site
  • Article 4 direction: 20 - 24 Townsend, SohamPart of the site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Soham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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© 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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