Christs College, First Court St Andrews Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3BU
Approved on 27 August 2025
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Addition of Handrails and guardrails to staircases L, M, N and O.
- Received
- 18 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Ward
- Market
- Agent
- Bidwells LLP
- ReceivedReceived18 Jul
- ValidatedValidated18 Jul
- Consult.Consultation26 Aug
- TargetTarget Date12 Sep
- DecidedDecided27 Aug
Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Christs College, First Court St Andrews Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3BU. Cambridge has handled 153 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 3BU
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- -
- District
- Cambridge City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 July 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 30 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 26 August 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 September 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Bidwells LLP
- Agent address
- Bidwell House Trumpington Road Trumpington Cambridge CB2 9LD
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Adam Dzimidowicz
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 30 July 2025
- Site notice start
- 5 August 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 17
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Historic Core
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 05/1993Protected tree on or next to this site · +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 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202628 Jan
Submission of details required by condition 4 (Building Recording) of listed building consent 25/00793/LBC
Discharge Condition in FullDischarge of conditions25/00793/CONDD - 20251 Aug
Submission of details required by condition 3 (c) (Details of bricks, stone type, render and pointing) of…
Discharge Condition in FullDischarge of conditions25/00793/CONDC
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