42 Barrow Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8AS

25/03033/HFULHouseholder Works/ExtensionApproved

Householder

Approved on 22 September 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of a timber playground and tree house in the rear garden.

Received: 1 August 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cambridge City Council
Ward: Trumpington

ReceivedReceived1 Aug
ValidatedValidated8 Aug
Consult.Consultation12 Sep
TargetTarget Date3 Oct
DecidedDecided22 Sep

Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 42 Barrow Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8AS. Cambridge has handled 1,534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Barrow Road conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 680 applications in total for the CB2 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: CB2 8AS
Application type: Householder Works/Extension
Scale / size: Small
District: Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 August 2025
Last date for comments: 12 September 2025
Target decision date: 3 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 22 August 2025

Additional information

Documents: 16

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Barrow 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.

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Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Cambridge

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