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4 London Road Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5DD

25/1058/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 17 November 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Tree cutting required to allow CityFibre access to the telecoms pole outside of the property and install new overhead cable to put the customer in service. Clearance required through the trees will be approximately 0.5m in diameter around the cable, no major clearance i.e crown lift required.

Received
26 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shelford
  1. Received26 Sep
  2. Validated26 Sep
  3. Consult.23 Oct
  4. Target21 Nov
  5. Decided17 Nov

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 4 London Road Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5DD. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Shelford conservation area. 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 5DD
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Shelford CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 September 2025
Last date for comments
23 October 2025
Target decision date
21 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ipsum Utilities
Agent address
Unit 3 Hutton Square Brucefield Industrial Estate Livingston EH54 9DJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

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: Great Shelford
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0032 (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

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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