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Mulberry Cottage Fox Road Balsham Cambridgeshire CB21 4EZ

24/0870/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 12 September 2024

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lime - L1 - Re-pollard to previous pollarded points. They are at around 2.5m from ground level. The reason we are doing this is that the regrowth on a pollard is Epicormic emergency growth and has no real structural strength. (Owned by Applicant) Beech - B1 - Reduce crown by 30%, 1-3m overhanging neighbour and overshadowing garden. (Owned by Neighbour)

Received
12 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Balsham
Agent
Tree Surgery Services
  1. Received12 Aug
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.10 Sep
  4. Target9 Oct
  5. Decided12 Sep

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Mulberry Cottage Fox Road Balsham Cambridgeshire CB21 4EZ. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Balsham West End conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Balsham. We hold 1,477 applications in total for the CB21 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
CB21 4EZ
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Balsham CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2024
Last date for comments
10 September 2024
Target decision date
9 October 2024
Permission expires
12 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tree Surgery Services
Agent address
Brakehill Lodge Farm Carbrooke IP25 6SU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Balsham - West End
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0006 (1966)Part of the site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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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© 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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