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Play Area Recreation Ground Fountain Lane Soham Cambridgeshire

25/00167/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 30 May 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

To extend current Skatepark

Received
12 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Soham South
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.3 Jun
  4. Target14 Apr
  5. Decided30 May

Decided in 102 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Play Area Recreation Ground Fountain Lane Soham Cambridgeshire. East Cambridgeshire has handled 950 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 9 weeks longer than East Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Soham South.

87% of full 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

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Soham

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2025
Consultation expiry
3 June 2025
Consultation start
30 May 2025
Consultation end
3 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
30 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
13 March 2025
Target decision date
14 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
27 February 2025
Advertisement expiry
13 March 2025
Site notice start
24 February 2025
Site notice end
17 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13734608
Documents
39
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Soham
  • Listed building: Grade II: Steelyard at the Fountain InnOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: 22 - 28 Clay Street, SohamNext to the site · +2 more
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO/E/02/02Protected tree on or next to this site · +1 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Soham
  • Brownfield land register: Walter Gidney Pavilion Fountain Lane Soham Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 5EDRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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

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© 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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