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588 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8LP

25/04896/S73Section 73 - Remove/Vary ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 3 March 2026

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

S73 to vary condition 2 (approved plans) of planning permission 23/04811/FUL (Erection of 1 no. dwelling. Resubmission of 23/01903/FUL) to amend dwelling design.

Received
17 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbey
Agent
Holmes Architecture & Planning ltd.
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target11 Feb
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 76 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 588 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8LP. Cambridge has handled 1,195 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 4 weeks longer than Cambridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Abbey. We hold 537 applications in total for the CB5 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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
CB5 8LP
Application type
Section 73 - Remove/Vary Condition
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025
Last date for comments
30 January 2026
Target decision date
11 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Holmes Architecture & Planning ltd.
Architect profile
HOLMES ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING LTD
Agent address
69 Guntons Close Soham Ely CB7 5DJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 January 2026

Additional information

Documents
15

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

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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