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30 Canterbury Street Cambridge CB4 3QF

16/1956/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 March 2017

Council decision: Granted PermissionPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of a basement under the front part of our property

Received
22 November 2016
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Castle
  1. Received22 Nov
  2. Validated22 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Feb
  4. Target17 Jan
  5. Decided14 Mar

Decided in 112 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 30 Canterbury Street Cambridge CB4 3QF. Cambridge has handled 1,534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 9 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Castle and Victoria Road conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 119 applications across Castle. We hold 1,501 applications in total for the CB4 postcode area.

90% of full applications at Cambridge City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB4 3QF
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 November 2016
Consultation expiry
22 February 2017
Consultation start
8 February 2017
Consultation end
22 February 2017
Neighbour consultation end
16 December 2016
Target decision date
17 January 2017
Committee meeting
1 March 2017
Permission expires
14 March 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
44
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Castle And Victoria Road
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    9 Jan

    1 x Plum, remove.

    ApprovedWorks to CA trees25/0030/TTCA

Source: Cambridge

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