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83 Victoria Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3BS

25/01028/PRIORPrior ApprovalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 April 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GivenDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouse (Use Class C3)

Received
17 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Chesterton
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.23 Apr
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 83 Victoria Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3BS. Cambridge has handled 279 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Castle and Victoria Road conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3BS
Application type
Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025
Last date for comments
23 April 2025
Target decision date
12 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 April 2025

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Castle And Victoria Road
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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