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11 Cheyney Street Steeple Morden Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 0LP

22/0399/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 5 May 2022

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Yew tree, Tree has grown over the boundaries of my property. Work is to reduce the crown - reduce the spread of the tree by up to 2.5m and height by 1m. Intended measurements, approximately 10m high and 8m wide.

Received
29 March 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
The Mordens
  1. Received29 Mar
  2. Validated29 Mar
  3. Consult.20 Apr
  4. Target24 May
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 37 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 11 Cheyney Street Steeple Morden Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 0LP. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 12 days quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Steeple Morden St Peter and St Paul's conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across The Mordens. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 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
SG8 0LP
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Steeple Morden CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 March 2022
Consultation expiry
20 April 2022
Consultation start
30 March 2022
Consultation end
20 April 2022
Last date for comments
20 April 2022
Target decision date
24 May 2022
Permission expires
5 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Steeple Morden - St Peter and St Paul
  • Listed building: Grade II: HomedaleOn this site · +1 more
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0010 (1998)Protected tree on or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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.

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: South Cambridgeshire

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