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Sypsey Cottage High Street Brinkley Cambridgeshire CB8 0SF

25/00113/TREWork to tree within Conservation areaApproved

Approved on 7 March 2025

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

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1 Sycamore - Fell to ground level due to close proximity of house before getting to big and suppress sun light into house and garden

Received
31 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bottisham
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated7 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 Mar
  5. Decided7 Mar

Decided in 28 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Sypsey Cottage High Street Brinkley Cambridgeshire CB8 0SF. East Cambridgeshire has handled 1,134 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 7 days quicker than East Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Brinkley conservation area, with 3 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 1,574 applications in total for the CB8 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
CB8 0SF
Application type
Work to tree within Conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Brinkley

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 February 2025
Consultation start
7 March 2025
Target decision date
21 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Hamish Dickson 56 The Causeway Burwell Cambridge CB25 0DU

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13740918
Comments
0
Documents
0
Constraints
14

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: Brinkley
  • 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.

Source: East Cambridgeshire

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