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16 St Johns Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1TW

25/04277/CL2PDLawful Use Certificate (S192)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 December 2025

Council decision: Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness under S192 to paint the outside of an existing shop in a conservation colour.

Received
3 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Market
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated12 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Jan
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at 16 St Johns Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1TW. Cambridge has handled 279 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker than Cambridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

85% of outline 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 1TW
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate (S192)
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 November 2025
Target decision date
7 January 2026

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.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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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