73-79 Henry Giles House Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3BQ
Refused on 21 June 2023
Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of roof mounted PV array to flat roof
- Received
- 26 April 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- West Chesterton
- ReceivedReceived26 Apr
- ValidatedValidated26 Apr
- Consult.Consultation25 May
- TargetTarget Date21 Jun
- DecidedDecided21 Jun
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at 73-79 Henry Giles House Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3BQ. Cambridge has handled 279 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Castle and Victoria Road conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across West Chesterton. 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 3BQ
- Application type
- Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 April 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 5 June 2023
- Consultation start
- 3 May 2023
- Consultation end
- 25 May 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 May 2023
- Last date for comments
- 5 June 2023
- Target decision date
- 21 June 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Eagle House 5-7 Upper Queen Street Belfast BT1 6FB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 15 May 2023
- Site notice end
- 5 June 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 19
- Constraints
- 14
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Castle And Victoria Road
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 23/2012Protected tree on or next to this site
- Brownfield land register: Henry Giles House Chesterton RoadRegister site at or near this address · +2 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.
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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Cambridge
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