Cambridge Retail Park, Unit 9 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8WR
Approved on 10 August 2022
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of 2 No. internally illuminated flexface signs and 1 No. set of 2 non illuminated entrance/exit signs.
- Received
- 9 June 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Abbey
- Agent
- spencer signs ltd
- ReceivedReceived9 Jun
- ValidatedValidated9 Jun
- Consult.Consultation26 Jul
- TargetTarget Date4 Aug
- DecidedDecided10 Aug
Decided in 62 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at Cambridge Retail Park, Unit 9 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8WR. Cambridge has handled 112 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Abbey. We hold 537 applications in total for the CB5 postcode area.
80% of advertising 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
- CB5 8WR
- Application type
- Advert Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 June 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 26 July 2022
- Consultation start
- 5 July 2022
- Consultation end
- 26 July 2022
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 July 2022
- Last date for comments
- 26 July 2022
- Target decision date
- 4 August 2022
- Permission expires
- 10 August 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- spencer signs ltd
- Agent address
- 1 70 Scarborough Street Hull HU3 4TG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 17
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 17/2018Protected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.
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