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Local issues considered by Cambridge Conveyancing Solicitors:

Road and Rail Construction

Transport projects are rightly a concern for homebuyers, given both the disruption they can create, and the long-term impact they can have on a house's value. The local searches a solicitor carries out during a sale or purchase show any proposals for the following in respect of any highway adjoining the property:

• making it one-way
• permanently stopping it up or diverting it
• introducing parking restrictions or changing existing restrictions (including residents parking permits)
• introducing width or weight restrictions
• speed restrictions, traffic calming measures including speed humps (sleeping policemen)
• cycle tracks

While buyers are unlikely to proceed if a home is in the direct line of a new road, they may be happy to go ahead if it appears that the building will not be directly affected.

Cambridge Tree Preservation Orders

Cambridge purchasers and owners should be aware that TPO-protected trees cannot be trimmed, pruned or uprooted without council approval. Furthermore, it is a criminal offence to wilfully damage or destroy a tree under a TPO. If an application is being made to remove a tree completely, the council can ask for a replacement tree to be planted elsewhere as a condition of giving consent. It is a breach of planning control to remove any trees the original developer was obliged to plant, but a TPO may or may not also be in effect. By obtaining copies of any TPOs impacting your property before you go on the market, you will improve your chances of a faster transaction when you do find a buyer.

Protecting residents by ensuring that appropriate planning consent has been obtained within designated conservation areas:

Brooklands, Central area, Chesterton, Conduit Head Road, De Freville, Ferry Lane, Newnham Croft, Southacre, Storeyss Way, Trumpington, and West Cambridge.