Saxon Works, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1PJ
Approved on 17 February 2025
Council decision: ApprovePlanning committee
Proposal
Metal Recycling Facility for the storage, sorting, separation, grading, sheering, baling, compacting, crushing, granulating and cutting of ferrous metals or alloys and non-ferrous metals. Informative: this application seeks to change the existing authorised waste site from plastics recovery facility and recycling of automotive shredder residue (ASR) to metal recycling .
- Received
- 1 May 2024
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 6
- Ward
- Whittlesey North
- Agent
- SBRice Ltd
- ReceivedReceived1 May
- ValidatedValidated5 Jul
- Consult.Consultation7 Aug
- TargetTarget Date4 Oct
- DecidedDecided17 Feb
Decided in 227 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Saxon Works, Peterborough Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1PJ. Cambridgeshire has handled 83 applications of this type. This one was decided in 292 days, 35 weeks longer than Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Whittlesey North. We hold 500 applications in total for the PE7 postcode area.
100% of all 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
- PE7 1PJ
- Application type
- Full application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Whittlesey
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 7 August 2024
- Consultation start
- 17 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 28 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 August 2024
- Last date for comments
- 7 August 2024
- Target decision date
- 4 October 2024
- Committee meeting
- 12 February 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- SBRice Ltd
- Agent address
- SBRice Ltd, Treath, Trewartha Road, Praa Sands, Penzance, TR20 9ST
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13012812
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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