Witcham Meadlands Quarry Block Fen Drove Mepal CB6 2AY
Approved on 24 October 2024
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Continued disposal of stable non-reactive hazardous waste with revised final contours and restoration (part retrospective). Creation of wet grassland on previously restored agricultural land
- Received
- 24 May 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 5
- Ward
- March South & Rural
- ReceivedReceived24 May
- ValidatedValidated4 Jul
- Consult.Consultation16 Jul
- TargetTarget Date24 Oct
- DecidedDecided24 Oct
Decided in 112 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Witcham Meadlands Quarry Block Fen Drove Mepal CB6 2AY. Cambridgeshire has handled 83 applications of this type. This one was decided in 153 days, 15 weeks longer than Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across March South & Rural. We hold 1,594 applications in total for the CB6 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
- CB6 2AY
- Application type
- Full Application Minerals & Waste
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Manea
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 29 July 2024
- Consultation end
- 16 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 July 2024
- Last date for comments
- 29 July 2024
- Target decision date
- 24 October 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 112 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13036489
- Documents
- 31
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Associated applications
- 202526 Mar
Application for approval of mandatory Biodiversity Gain Plan for planning permission CCC/24/065/FUL
PendingDischarge of conditionsCCC/25/036/DCON - 202424 May
Continued disposal of stable non-reactive hazardous waste with revised final contours and restoration (part…
This applicationApprovedFullCCC/24/065/FUL
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