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53 St Thomas's Square Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3TG

23/01212/HFULHouseholder Works/ExtensionApproved
Householder

Approved on 15 June 2023

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective replacement of the existing garden studio and workshop with a detached ancillary annex.

Received
29 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Coleridge
  1. Received29 Mar
  2. Validated29 Mar
  3. Consult.26 Apr
  4. Target24 May
  5. Decided15 Jun

Decided in 78 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 53 St Thomas's Square Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3TG. Cambridge has handled 1,534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 4 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across Coleridge. We hold 1,406 applications in total for the CB1 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
CB1 3TG
Application type
Householder Works/Extension
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 March 2023
Consultation expiry
14 June 2023
Neighbour consultation end
26 April 2023
Last date for comments
14 June 2023
Target decision date
24 May 2023
Permission expires
15 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 May 2023
Site notice end
14 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
21
Constraints
5

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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