Planning application
2 Apthorpe Street Fulbourn Cambridgeshire CB21 5EY
Works: Trees
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Proposal
4x Lime trees - Prune to reduce the longer branches overhanging /growing towards the house and garden of no. 18 by up to 2.5m -3m.
As published by the council, reference 26/0833/TTPO
Application record
- Reference
- 26/0833/TTPO
- Type
- Works to TPO trees
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 6 Aug 2026
- Validated
- 17 Aug 2026
- Ward
- Fen Ditton & Fulbourn
- Parish
- Fulbourn CP
- Postcode
- CB21 5EY
Comment by 9 September 2026
The council is taking comments on this application until then. Have your say on South Cambridgeshire's portal.
Site history
Applications at this address on the South Cambridgeshire register
This site has had 3 applications since 2026.
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26/0693/TTCA Awaiting decision
2 Apthorpe Street Fulbourn Cambridgeshire CB21 5EY
T2: Wild Plum - Crown lift to give an additional 1m clearance over drive T3: Plum, two separate stems, one completely dead and one with weight bias over wall and road, live stem touching buttress on wall - Fell T4: Ceanothus, large wound at 1m, areas of die back on stem, 40% dieback throughout crown - Fell T5: Ceanothus, fungal infection on stem, loose bark, 60% dead - Fell T7: Laburnum - Fell T8: Plum, growing very close to left hand boundary wall. Several stems rubbing and pushing on wall between buttresses - Remove stems touching wall and shorten two heaviest branches overhanging driveway of adjacent property by 2m T27: Fig - Prune to remove stems touching top of wall and remove Ivy down to 0.5m
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26/0692/TTPO Awaiting decision
2 Apthorpe Street Fulbourn Cambridgeshire CB21 5EY
T1: Lime - Remove dead wood and hanging branches, shorten branches over the road to path edge (by no more than 3m) and reduce upper crown by up to 7m to compensate for weakness at 3m (Reason: cavity at 3m on roadside) T9: Lime - Remove major dead wood, shorten branches close to utility cables by 5m (over road) (Reason: too close to utility cables) Situated on right hand side of driveway entrance, 400mm from front boundary wall T10: Lime (right hand front garden) - Remove major dead wood, shorten branches towards utility cables by 3m, remove suckers at base. (Reason: too close to utility cables) T13: Lime - Remove major dead wood, supply and fit cobra brace to reduce risk of failure at poor union, reduce weight on low branches over road by shortening by 3-4m. (Reason: Poor included bark union between 2 largest stems above pollard point) T23: Lime - Fell to ground level (Reason: Dying top, stunted tree. Touching top of right hand boundary wall)
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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6 Aug 2026
Received by South Cambridgeshire
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17 Aug 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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18 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 12 October 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
South Cambridgeshire took a median of 58 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
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Agent on file, registered in Ely
66 applications on PlanIndex · across 6 councils · 96% granted
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8 documents on file for this application
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER
- MAP OF NOTIFIED NEIGHBOURS
- TREE LOCATION PLAN
- INVALID LETTER
- APPLICATION FORM - NO PERSONAL INFO
- FEE CALCULATION
- ATTACHMENT SUMMARY FROM PORTAL
- 2 APTHORPE STREET FULBOURN
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This application is with South Cambridgeshire for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year South Cambridgeshire decided tree works applications in a median of 39 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About tree works applications
Applications for works to trees cover protected trees: consent under a tree preservation order, or six weeks notice for trees in a conservation area. More in our guide to planning application types.
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26/0810/TTPO Refused
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26/0815/TTPO Granted
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26/0808/TTPO Granted
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T015 Copper Beech reduce branch projecting north-east by up to 2.5m to reduce end weight and lateral spread,crown lift to approx 4m. T016 Copper Beech reduce branch projecting north by up to 3m, canker present on lower stem, crown lift to approx. 4m. Self set Prunus by SE corner of back of house removal to near ground level. Twin stemmed Prunus situated on island of conifer this self set tree removal to near ground level of Prunus ONLY to be replaced. Mature Beech encroaching on driveway entrance gate Crown lift on all sides to approx. 2.5m and reduce lower Phototropic limb Southern Crown only by approx. 3m to match in with rest of crown to reduce risk of failure.
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26/0795/TTCA Granted
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B1: Bay - Fell B2: Rose bush - Fell H1: Leylandii - Crown lift to 2m and cut back by 0.5m H2: Beech - Fell T6, T8, T9, T10, T11: Unknown species - Fell T7: Fig - Fell
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26/0966/TTCA Awaiting decision
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T1 - Beech tree - Thin the crown on the Northern side of the crown by 20%. Reason: to re-balance the tree after a large branch failed over the churchyard.