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Play Ground Recreation Ground Martins Lane Witcham Cambridgeshire

25/01130/TREWork to tree within Conservation areaApproved

Approved on 20 November 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Prunus - Reduce Westerly lateral limb over roadway by 2m T2 Ash - Remove 2x lower crown limbs over roadway T4 Japanese Elm - Remove lowest lateral limb over footpath T13 Hornbeam - Sympathetically crown lift to 1.5-2m as formative pruning T14 Prunus - Crown raise over grass to 2.5 meters, crown rise over roadway to 5m T16 Field Maple - Remove lowest lateral limb over roadway

Received
14 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sutton
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Nov
  5. Decided20 Nov

Decided in 37 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Play Ground Recreation Ground Martins Lane Witcham Cambridgeshire. East Cambridgeshire has handled 1,134 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 5 days quicker than East Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Witcham conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Sutton.

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

Application type
Work to tree within Conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Witcham

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025
Consultation start
20 November 2025
Target decision date
25 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Shane Watson 17 West End Haddenham Ely CB6 3TD

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14409874
Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Witcham
  • Listed building: Grade II: Hill HouseOn or next to this site
  • 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.

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© 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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