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Great Shelford Memorial Hall Woollards Lane Great Shelford Cambridge South Cambridgeshire CB22 5LZ

23/0959/TTCAWorks to CA treesApproved

Approved on 4 October 2023

Council decision: Have No Objection ToDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T3 Silver Birch - removal of large dead branch on eastern side of crown at 4.5m above ground level NOTE: survey has noted work needs to be undertaken within six weeks due to location in a heavily used public area

Received
25 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shelford
  1. Received25 Aug
  2. Validated30 Aug
  3. Consult.25 Sep
  4. Target11 Oct
  5. Decided4 Oct

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Great Shelford Memorial Hall Woollards Lane Great Shelford Cambridge South Cambridgeshire CB22 5LZ. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Shelford conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 156 applications across Shelford. We hold 1,974 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 5LZ
Application type
Works to CA trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Shelford CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 August 2023
Consultation expiry
25 September 2023
Consultation start
4 September 2023
Consultation end
25 September 2023
Last date for comments
25 September 2023
Target decision date
11 October 2023
Permission expires
4 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Great Shelford
  • Listed building: Grade II: 11 and 13, Woollards LaneOn or next to this site
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0028 (2002)Part of the site · +3 more
  • Green belt: South CambridgeshirePart of the site
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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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© 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.

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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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