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212-214 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8JL

25/01863/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 4 July 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use of Undercroft Parking Area to Commercial Use (Use Class E) and associated works

Received
12 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbey
Agent
Twenty-Nine Architecture Ltd
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target7 Jul
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 212-214 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8JL. Cambridge has handled 1,534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Abbey. We hold 537 applications in total for the CB5 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
CB5 8JL
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2025
Last date for comments
9 June 2025
Target decision date
7 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Twenty-Nine Architecture Ltd
Architect profile
TWENTY-NINE ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
25 Cromwell Road Cambridge CB1 3EB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 May 2025

Additional information

Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 212-214 Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8JLRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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