26 Vicarage Close Swaffham Bulbeck Cambridge CB25 0LY
Approved on 8 May 2025
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Loft conversion, including rear facing dormer and front facing rooflight windows
- Received
- 10 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Bottisham
- ReceivedReceived10 Mar
- ValidatedValidated13 Mar
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date8 May
- DecidedDecided8 May
Decided in 56 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 26 Vicarage Close Swaffham Bulbeck Cambridge CB25 0LY. East Cambridgeshire has handled 313 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 2 weeks longer than East Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Bottisham. We hold 1,521 applications in total for the CB25 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
- CB25 0LY
- Application type
- Certificate of lawfulness - proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Swaffham Bulbeck
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 8 May 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO Mr David Jones Neville House Station Road Wendens Ambo Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4LB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: East CambridgeshireNext to the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: East Cambridgeshire
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