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59 Ainsworth Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2PF

25/03550/CLUEDLawful Development Cert (s191)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 7 November 2025

Council decision: Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness under S192 to lawfully establish that the roof of the extension approved under planning permission 07/0557/FUL has been used as a balcony, roof garden or similar amenity area in excess of 10 years, in breach of planning condition 3.

Received
11 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Petersfield
Agent
Robinson Escott Planning
  1. Received11 Sep
  2. Validated11 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Nov
  5. Decided7 Nov

Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 59 Ainsworth Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2PF. Cambridge has handled 195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Mill Road conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 156 applications across Petersfield. We hold 1,406 applications in total for the CB1 postcode area.

90% of amendment 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
CB1 2PF
Application type
Lawful Development Cert (s191)
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 September 2025
Target decision date
6 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Robinson Escott Planning
Agent address
Downe House 303 High Street Orpington BR6 0NN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Mill Road
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 06/2015Protected tree on or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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