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Woodland Rear Of ( 25) Courtyards Little Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5ER

23/1336/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 19 January 2024

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Five day notice ( Mrs Fordham deceased Hall Farm, High Street, Little Shelford CB22 5ES) x1 Mature (Dead standing) Beech tree. To fell this tree due to risk to life and damaged to the surrounding landscape and adjacent property. This tree is dead and poses danger, their is significant bark loss, blistering of the bark, fungus brackets visible from the ground up and a considerable number of fallen dead branches onto the adjacent property of no.25. Some of these branches are not small and are covered in Jelly ear (Auricularia auricle-judae)! The tree will be felled and left lying to provide a habitate. The adjacent property (no.25), farm land and wooded area is in Frequent use and it is a matter of time before someone is harmed or killed. I am applying for an emergency 5 day notice.

Received
2 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shelford
  1. Received2 Nov
  2. Validated2 Nov
  3. Consult.8 Jan
  4. Target7 Nov
  5. Decided19 Jan

Decided in 78 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Woodland Rear Of ( 25) Courtyards Little Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5ER. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 4 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 156 applications across Shelford. 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 5ER
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Shelford CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 November 2023
Last date for comments
8 January 2024
Target decision date
7 November 2023
Permission expires
19 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
thedesignbranch
Agent address
16 Church Lane Madingley CB238AF

Planning decision

Statutory period
5 days

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0005 (1960)
  • Green belt: South Cambridgeshire
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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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