The Old Dispensary 13 St Marys Street Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4ER
Approved on 3 July 2025
Council decision: ApprovePlanning committee
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Proposal
Change of use to secure office retrospective
- Received
- 17 April 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 5
- Ward
- Ely West
- ReceivedReceived17 Apr
- ValidatedValidated8 May
- Consult.Consultation5 Jun
- TargetTarget Date3 Jul
- DecidedDecided3 Jul
Decided in 56 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a heritage application for a change of use at The Old Dispensary 13 St Marys Street Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4ER. East Cambridgeshire has handled 136 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 5 weeks longer than East Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Ely conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Ely West. We hold 653 applications in total for the CB7 postcode area.
96% of heritage 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 4ER
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Ely
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 24 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 23 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 5 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 23 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 24 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 July 2025
- Committee meeting
- 2 July 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 22 May 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 6 June 2025
- Site notice start
- 15 May 2025
- Site notice end
- 6 June 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13949650
- Documents
- 20
- Constraints
- 16
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Ely
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: East Cambridgeshire
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