Sidney Sussex College, Chapel Court Sidney Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3HU
Approved on 8 February 2024
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Internal access improvements - installation of new partition and access ramp to recreation and meeting/admin areas.
- Received
- 30 November 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Market
- Agent
- Pleasance Hookham and Nix Ltd.
- ReceivedReceived30 Nov
- ValidatedValidated30 Nov
- Consult.Consultation4 Jan
- TargetTarget Date25 Jan
- DecidedDecided8 Feb
Decided in 70 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Sidney Sussex College, Chapel Court Sidney Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3HU. Cambridge has handled 153 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 3 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 207 applications across Market. We hold 680 applications in total for the CB2 postcode area.
95% of heritage 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
- CB2 3HU
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 November 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 17 January 2024
- Consultation start
- 11 December 2023
- Consultation end
- 4 January 2024
- Last date for comments
- 17 January 2024
- Target decision date
- 25 January 2024
- Permission expires
- 8 February 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Pleasance Hookham and Nix Ltd.
- Architect profile
- PLEASANCE, HOOKHAM & NIX LIMITED
- Agent address
- 1 Northampton Street 1 Northampton Street Cambridge CB3 0AD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 20 December 2023
- Advertisement expiry
- 15 January 2024
- Site notice start
- 22 December 2023
- Site notice end
- 17 January 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 23
- Constraints
- 18
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Historic Core
- Listed building: Sidney Sussex College, the Buildings Surrounding Hall Court and Chapel CourtOn or next to this site
- 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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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