Institute Of Astronomy, Thorrowgood Telescope Building Madingley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0HA
Approved on 8 June 2023
Council decision: Discharge Condition in FullDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Submission of details required by condition 3 (ramp and entrance door details) of Listed Building consent 22/04587/LBC
- Received
- 27 April 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Castle
- ReceivedReceived27 Apr
- ValidatedValidated27 Apr
- Consult.Consultation30 May
- TargetTarget Date22 Jun
- DecidedDecided8 Jun
Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Institute Of Astronomy, Thorrowgood Telescope Building Madingley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0HA. Cambridge has handled 1,195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the West Cambridge conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 119 applications across Castle. We hold 690 applications in total for the CB3 postcode area.
97% of conditions 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
- CB3 0HA
- Application type
- Condition request
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 April 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 1 June 2023
- Consultation start
- 5 May 2023
- Consultation end
- 30 May 2023
- Last date for comments
- 1 June 2023
- Target decision date
- 22 June 2023
- Permission expires
- 8 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Head of Estates
- Agent address
- Greenwich House Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 0TX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 10 May 2023
- Advertisement expiry
- 1 June 2023
- Site notice start
- 10 May 2023
- Site notice end
- 31 May 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 10
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: West Cambridge
- 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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