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St Marys Church Church Lane Bartlow Cambridgeshire CB21 4PL

25/1038/TTCAWorks to CA treesApproved

Approved on 30 October 2025

Council decision: Have No Objection ToDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Yew - Raise canopy on all sides by approximately 1.5m to improve pedestrian access beneath canopy and to increase light to adjacent property. Reduce longest leaders on west and north sides above roof and access road by approximately 2 - 2.5m to abate nuisance Reduce spread on east side to clear church tower by 1.5 - 2m to abate nuisance

Received
24 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Linton
  1. Received24 Sep
  2. Validated24 Sep
  3. Consult.17 Oct
  4. Target5 Nov
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Marys Church Church Lane Bartlow Cambridgeshire CB21 4PL. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 13 days quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bartlow conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 142 applications across Linton. We hold 1,476 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 4PL
Application type
Works to CA trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bartlow Parish Meeting
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 September 2025
Last date for comments
17 October 2025
Target decision date
5 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Eastern Tree Surgery
Agent address
7 Heath Road Swaffham Prior Swaffham Prior Cambridge CB25 0LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Bartlow
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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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