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Century-old trees in Cambridge saved for second time
Three trees that have been described as "amongst the most glorious in Cambridge" have for a second time been saved from being chopped City Council has refused to grant permission to fell three London plane trees at St Matthew's application to chop the trees down had been put forward by the insurance company for a residential property in Sturton Street, due to concerns about the trees causing subsidence at the objectors questioned whether they were actually causing ongoing damage to the property and urged councillors not to allow the 125-year-old trees to be cut down.
Three previous applications have been made in relation to the three trees in recent told councillors at a planning committee meeting on Wednesday that the latest application to cut down the trees did not provide any additional information about the damage to the officers said they were satisfied from the evidence they had that there was a "causal link between the damage to the building and the trees".Officers explained that if the city council refused permission to cut down the trees it could face a compensation claim and might have to pay for underpinning work to the added that information provided by the applicant claimed the cost of this work had increased from when previous applications were submitted, to £306, said the value of the trees was "undisputed", but that councillors needed to balance this value with the risk of facing a possible compensation claim.A number of objectors came to the meeting to urge the city council not to allow the trees to be cut group Friends of St Matthew's Piece questioned whether the trees were actually causing ongoing damage to the presented councillors with a new structural engineer's report, which they said did not show a link between the trees and cracking in the planning committee agreed unanimously to refuse the application to cut the three trees down.
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