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The Yews Cootes Lane Fen Drayton Cambridgeshire CB24 4SL

26/0681/TTCAWorks to CA treesApproved

Approved on 11 August 2026

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1 - Silver Birch - Reduce height by up to 3 meters and reduce sides by up to 1 meter to increase light in the house and garden as well as keep the tree into a nicer and more manageable size. T2 - Apple - Reduce the branch that is growing into the hedge (up to 3 meters) and reduce the rest of the tree by up to 1 meter and clear congested branches. This is to stop it growing into the hedge and to preserve a nicer shape for the tree. T3 - Irish Yew - Fell tree and remove stump, to make way for the proposed extension to the property.

Received
6 July 2026
Ward
Swavesey
  1. Received6 Jul
  2. Validated6 Jul
  3. Consult.27 Jul
  4. Target17 Aug
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Yews Cootes Lane Fen Drayton Cambridgeshire CB24 4SL. 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. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Swavesey. We hold 1,342 applications in total for the CB24 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
CB24 4SL
Application type
Works to CA trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fen Drayton CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 July 2026
Last date for comments
27 July 2026
Target decision date
17 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
22 Rookery Place Fenstanton PE289LZ

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.

  • 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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