New Museums Site, M11b East Wing Free School Lane Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3RF
Approved on 18 March 2025
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of secondary glazing and lighting of the Grade II Listed Old Cavendish Laboratories complex fronting Free School Lane.
- Received
- 22 January 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Market
- ReceivedReceived22 Jan
- ValidatedValidated22 Jan
- Consult.Consultation28 Feb
- TargetTarget Date19 Mar
- DecidedDecided18 Mar
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application for window replacement at New Museums Site, M11b East Wing Free School Lane Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3RF. Cambridge has handled 153 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 20 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 3RF
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 January 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 January 2025
- Last date for comments
- 28 February 2025
- Target decision date
- 19 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 18 March 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
- 29 January 2025
- Site notice start
- 6 February 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 26
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Historic Core
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 07/2006Protected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, 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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