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3 Spinney Drive Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5LY

25/0622/TTCAWorks to CA treesApproved

Approved on 28 July 2025

Council decision: Have No Objection ToDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1- Laburnum tree - Fell T2- Prunus - needs general tidy up and is to be pruned all round by 1 metre. T2 has branches overhanging next door neighbour and shading plants, these branches will be cut back to fence level leaving tree with balanced shape. T3 - Prunus - General tidy up and is to be pruned all round by 1 metre. T3 is leaning and needs one low leaning branch cut back to reduce weight and balance tree shape. T4 - Prunus - General tidy up and is to be pruned all round by 1 metre T5 - Prunus - General tidy up and is to be pruned all round by 1 metre T4 and T5 have dead branches high up which need to be removed incase it falls to reduce risk of injury

Received
26 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shelford
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.18 Jul
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided28 Jul

Decided in 32 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 3 Spinney Drive Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5LY. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Shelford conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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 5LY
Application type
Works to CA trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Shelford CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2025
Last date for comments
18 July 2025
Target decision date
7 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Burch Treework
Agent address
33 Johnson Drive Hardwick South CB23 7EU

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Great Shelford
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0008 (2002)Protected tree on or next to this site
  • 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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© 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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