6 Townsend Mews Wilburton Ely Cambridgeshire CB6 3SQ
Approved on 1 April 2026
Council decision: Allow (TREE)Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
T1 Conifer - Remove. The tree is damaging the garden footpath, and we are looking to upgrade the fence. The trunk will prevent us from erecting fencing as the tree is right on the boundary line
- Received
- 5 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Stretham
- ReceivedReceived5 Mar
- ValidatedValidated5 Mar
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date16 Apr
- DecidedDecided1 Apr
Decided in 27 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a tree application at 6 Townsend Mews Wilburton Ely Cambridgeshire CB6 3SQ. 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 Wilburton conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Stretham. We hold 1,593 applications in total for the CB6 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
- CB6 3SQ
- Application type
- Work to tree within Conservation area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wilburton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 1 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 16 April 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Wilburton
- 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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