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8 St Albans Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 2HG

17/0540/GPEGeneral Permitted Development ExtensionsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 May 2017

Council decision: General Permit Development (Not Require)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Single storey rear extension

Received
22 March 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Arbury
  1. Received22 Mar
  2. Validated22 Mar
  3. Consult.13 Apr
  4. Target3 May
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 8 St Albans Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 2HG. Cambridge has handled 279 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Arbury. We hold 1,501 applications in total for the CB4 postcode area.

85% of outline 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 2HG
Application type
General Permitted Development Extensions
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 March 2017
Consultation expiry
13 April 2017
Consultation end
13 April 2017
Neighbour consultation end
13 April 2017
Target decision date
3 May 2017
Decision issued
16 May 2017
Permission expires
16 May 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Office 31 Gibraltar Lane Swavesey Cambridge CB24 4RR

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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