40 Common Lane Sawston Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3HW
Approved on 5 October 2020
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
TPO 0008 (1967) T33: T1 Ash . Reduce branches to clear overhead electric cable by 1.5 metres. Last weekend a mature Ash tree managed to short out the electric supply at 42 Common Road. The tree stands outside number 40.
- Received
- 30 September 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Sawston
- Agent
- Anglia Tree Contractors Ltd
- ReceivedReceived30 Sep
- ValidatedValidated30 Sep
- Consult.Consultation1 Oct
- TargetTarget Date25 Nov
- DecidedDecided5 Oct
Decided in 5 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 40 Common Lane Sawston Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3HW. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 6 weeks quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Sawston. We hold 1,982 applications in total for the CB22 postcode area.
97% of trees applications at South Cambridgeshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- CB22 3HW
- Application type
- Works to TPO trees
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Sawston CP
- District
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 September 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 1 October 2020
- Consultation start
- 1 October 2020
- Consultation end
- 1 October 2020
- Last date for comments
- 1 October 2020
- Target decision date
- 25 November 2020
- Decision issued
- 9 October 2020
- Permission expires
- 9 October 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Anglia Tree Contractors Ltd
- Agent address
- Church Lane, Westley Waterless, Newmarket, CB8 0RL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0008 (1967)Next to the site · +1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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Source: South Cambridgeshire
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