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Chapel Farm Prior Fen Upware Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 5YJ

20/00447/CLPCertificate of lawfulness - proposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 July 2020

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of Use of building from agricultural to A1 retail premises for pet & equestrian food, goods & bedding, including storage under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).

Received
26 March 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Bottisham
  1. Received26 Mar
  2. Validated26 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided13 Jul

Decided in 109 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Chapel Farm Prior Fen Upware Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 5YJ. East Cambridgeshire has handled 313 applications of this type. This one was decided in 109 days, 10 weeks longer than East Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Bottisham. We hold 653 applications in total for the CB7 postcode area.

80% of outline applications at East Cambridgeshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB7 5YJ
Application type
Certificate of lawfulness - proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swaffham Prior

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 March 2020
Target decision date
21 May 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
131A Brook Street Soham CB7 5AE United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08615323
Documents
12
Constraints
6

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 3: High 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.

Source: East Cambridgeshire

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