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Unit 8 Cambridge Retail Park Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8WR

26/00876/S106AS106AAwaiting decision
Discharge / amendments
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Modification of planning obligations contained in a S106 Agreement dated 27 November 2001 made between (1) Cambridge City Council and (2) BNY Trust Company Limited (as trustees of the Merril Lynch Property Fund) as varied by a deed of variation dated 7 October 2019 made between (1) Cambridge City Council, (2) Standard Life Assurance Limited, (3) Cambridgeshire County Council and (4) LIDL Great Britain Limited to modify clause 7.4.

Received
4 March 2026
Decision due
29 April 2026
Ward
Abbey
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.17 Sep
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 17 September.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (18)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Unit 8 Cambridge Retail Park Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8WR. Cambridge has handled 1,195 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 4 March 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. 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 8WR
Application type
S106A
Scale / size
Small
District
Cambridge City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2026
Consultation expiry
26 August 2026
Last date for comments
17 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Bidwell
Agent address
Bidwell House Trumpington Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 9LD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 August 2026

Additional information

Documents
18

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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