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Roger Ascham Library Depot, Ascham Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 2BD

CCC/21/092/DCONDischarge of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 November 2021

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to discharge Conditions:3 (Materials), 4 (Building joinery), 5 (hard landscaping joinery), 15 (Artificial lighting), 17 (Travel Plan) of planning permission CCC/20/020/FMW Alterations to entrance including new doors window and canopy, erection of a single storey rear extension, path, additional car parking spaces and internal remodelling works to allow the change of use from a library storage depot and office to a Register Office for registering births, deaths and still-births, dealing with legal preliminaries for ceremonies; conducting ceremonies and associated functions.

Received
5 July 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Arbury
Agent
YMD Boon Ltd
  1. Received5 Jul
  2. Validated13 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Nov
  5. Decided1 Nov

Decided in 111 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Roger Ascham Library Depot, Ascham Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 2BD. Cambridgeshire has handled 152 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 10 weeks longer than Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,501 applications in total for the CB4 postcode area.

100% of conditions applications at Cambridgeshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB4 2BD
Application type
Discharge of Condition
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Cambridge (Non Parished Area)

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 July 2021
Consultation start
19 July 2021
Target decision date
5 November 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
YMD Boon Ltd
Architect profile
YMD BOON LIMITED
Agent address
Loxley House, Tottle Road, Nottingham, NG2 1RT

Planning decision

Statutory period
115 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09963321
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Source: Cambridgeshire

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