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Church Of The Good Shepherd 58 Mansel Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 2ET

25/04092/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 April 2026

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)11 conditions

Proposal

Single storey extension between main church building and associated church hall. External insulation and render to existing church hall. Solar panels to pitched roofs of main church, flat roofs of church hall and flat roofs of proposed extension. Alterations to hard landscaping including new cycle parking and new accessible parking spaces. External enclosure for air source heat pumps. Alterations to boundary treatments. New soft landscaping.

Received
22 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Arbury
Agent
Archangel Ltd
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Apr
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided14 Apr

Decided in 74 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Church Of The Good Shepherd 58 Mansel Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 2ET. Cambridge has handled 1,534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 174 days, 18 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Arbury. We hold 1,501 applications in total for the CB4 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
CB4 2ET
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2026
Last date for comments
13 April 2026
Target decision date
27 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Archangel Ltd
Architect profile
ARCHANGEL LIMITED
Agent address
3 Doctor'S Close Impington Cambridge CB24 9ND

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
52

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

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, 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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