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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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2 Church Lane Shepreth Cambridgeshire SG8 6RG
Last published check: 9 Oct 2026, 00:02. Check the council record for more recent changes.
2 Church Lane Shepreth Cambridgeshire SG8 6RG
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View council mapT1. Ash reduce side over hanging the drive way by upto 2 m at the bottom and 1.5 nearer the top. Reducing back into shape.T2. Dead cypress fell to ground level.H1. Yew reduces the high to 3.5 m from ground level and hedge trim remaining starting to form it into a hedge.T3. Purple leaf plum right-hand side of drive way reduce tree back a meter growing towards house using pruning poles.S1. Cherry Laurel left hand side of front driveway. Reduce high back down to previous points around 2 m. Shaping the remaining bush to give a nice over all shape.H2. Beech, Trim the top and both side back to previous points. S2. Portuguese Laurel reduce both side by 1.5 -2m bring the height down by 1.5m. Try to cut it back so the shrub will grow back into a ball shape.S3. Dead shrub under beech tree right hand side of rear garden fell to ground level.T4. Cypress in middle of rear garden remove the large bottom limb growing toward the house back to source.T5 and T6. Hornbeam reduce high by 2m and reduce the remaining canopy by 2-2.5 m over left hand side of garden and 1-1.5 over the right side. shaping them both into their own tree shapes.T7. Hazel left hand side of rear garden. coppice 1 m from ground levelS4. Viburnum left hand side of rear garden reduce 2 limbs growing over the garden back to the uprights.S5. Viburnum left hand side on extra garden reduce the over hanging branches over the garden by around 2m giving it a good overall shape.
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| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTERApplication Officer Correspondence · PDF | 8 Oct 2026 | View |
| APPLICATION FORM - NO PERSONAL INFOApplication Information · PDF | 7 Oct 2026 | View |
| FEE CALCULATIONApplication Information · PDF | 7 Oct 2026 | View |
| ATTACHMENT SUMMARY FROM PORTALAttachment Summary · PDF | 7 Oct 2026 | View |
| 2 CHURCH LANEDrawings · PDF | 7 Oct 2026 | View |
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Understanding planning · 13 min read
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