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Sawston Water Tower Babraham Road Sawston South Cambridgeshire

22/1476/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 13 March 2023

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Ash - TPO 0008 (1967) Crown Lift to 5m from ground level in order to provide the necessary access for HGV's accessing the site. In addition team to access the 35m2 fenced off area - marked in RED on the map and remove all brambles through cutting them down to 25mm from ground level and spot spray with a glyphosate based herbicide.

Received
15 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sawston
Agent
Ground Control ltd
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated9 Jan
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target6 Mar
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 63 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Sawston Water Tower Babraham Road Sawston South Cambridgeshire. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 88 days, 6 weeks longer 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.

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

Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sawston CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 January 2023
Consultation expiry
30 January 2023
Consultation start
9 January 2023
Consultation end
30 January 2023
Last date for comments
30 January 2023
Target decision date
6 March 2023
Permission expires
13 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ground Control ltd
Agent address
Kingfisher House Radford Way Billericay CM12 0EQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0008 (1967)Covers the site
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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: South Cambridgeshire

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