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Chiltern House Vicarage Lane Whittlesford Cambridgeshire CB22 4NA

24/1428/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 22 January 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Sycamore - Reduce 3 low branches over garden of Freshfields by 3 metres. Ensure clearance of BT wire of at least 1.5 metres. Remove deadwood through the crown. Tree is causing excessive shading of the garden and also interferring with BT wires.

Received
10 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whittlesford
Agent
Mercer Tree Services Ltd
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated10 Dec
  3. Consult.7 Jan
  4. Target4 Feb
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Chiltern House Vicarage Lane Whittlesford Cambridgeshire CB22 4NA. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Whittlesford. 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 4NA
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whittlesford CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 December 2024
Last date for comments
7 January 2025
Target decision date
4 February 2025
Permission expires
22 January 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mercer Tree Services Ltd
Agent address
10 Petlands Saffron Walden CB10 1XF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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