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31 Ward Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3SY

25/04272/HFULHouseholder Works/ExtensionApproved
Householder

Approved on 17 December 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Partial conversion of existing storage to habitable space. Part single, part two storey side extension. Addition of 1no. skylight to front elevation and 1no. sun tunnel to rear flat roof.

Received
3 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Coleridge
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.16 Dec
  4. Target15 Jan
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a two storey side extension at 31 Ward Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3SY. Cambridge has handled 1,534 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker than Cambridge's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across Coleridge. We hold 1,406 applications in total for the CB1 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
CB1 3SY
Application type
Householder Works/Extension
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2025
Last date for comments
16 December 2025
Target decision date
15 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
86-90 Paul Street London EC2A 4NE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    22 Jan

    Non material amendment of planning permission 25/04272/HFUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendment25/04272/NMA1
  2. 2025
    3 Nov

    Partial conversion of existing storage to habitable space. Part single, part two storey side extension…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/04272/HFUL

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