80 High Street Sawston Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3HJ
Approved on 17 September 2020
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use to enable mixed use as a cafe (A3), shop (A1), and offices (B1a) including external alterations to the frontage
- Received
- 23 June 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Sawston
- ReceivedReceived23 Jun
- ValidatedValidated23 Jun
- Consult.Consultation10 Aug
- TargetTarget Date18 Aug
- DecidedDecided17 Sep
Decided in 86 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 80 High Street Sawston Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3HJ. Cambridge has handled 1,534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 5 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Sawston conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,974 applications in total for the CB22 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
- CB22 3HJ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Sawston CP
- District
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 June 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 17 September 2020
- Consultation start
- 20 July 2020
- Consultation end
- 10 August 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 17 September 2020
- Last date for comments
- 17 September 2020
- Target decision date
- 18 August 2020
- Permission expires
- 17 September 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Brown & Co Barfords
- Agent address
- The Fairways Wyboston Lakes Great North Road Wyboston MK44 3AL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 22 July 2020
- Advertisement expiry
- 12 August 2020
- Site notice start
- 29 July 2020
- Site notice end
- 19 August 2020
Additional information
- Documents
- 26
- Constraints
- 10
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Sawston
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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