Site Of Former 24 High Street Wisbech Cambridgeshire
Approved on 2 August 2021
Council decision: GrantPlanning committee
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Proposal
Erect a 4-storey building (comprising of 7 x 1-bed flats with retail floorspace at ground level) involving the demolition of a wall within a Conservation Area
- Received
- 19 May 2021
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 10
- Council
- Fenland District Council
- Ward
- Medworth Wisbech
- ReceivedReceived19 May
- ValidatedValidated17 Jun
- Consult.Consultation4 Aug
- TargetTarget Date12 Aug
- DecidedDecided2 Aug
Decided in 46 days
About this application
This is a planning application for demolition at Site Of Former 24 High Street Wisbech Cambridgeshire. Fenland has handled 6,458 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 5 days longer than Fenland's typical decision time. The site is in the Wisbech conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address.
Application details
- Application type
- Fenland District Council
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wisbech Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 June 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 4 August 2021
- Consultation start
- 20 July 2021
- Consultation end
- 4 August 2021
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 June 2021
- Neighbour consultation end
- 15 July 2021
- Last date for comments
- 4 August 2021
- Target decision date
- 12 August 2021
- Committee meeting
- 28 July 2021
- Permission expires
- 2 August 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Wilby and Burnett
- Agent address
- Provident House 123 Ashdon Road Saffron Walden Essex CO10 2AJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 30 June 2021
- Advertisement expiry
- 14 July 2021
- Site notice start
- 6 July 2021
- Site notice end
- 27 July 2021
Additional information
- Documents
- 36
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Wisbech
- Article 4 direction: Household Extensions and Alterations in Wisbech and Bowthorpe Conservation Areas+1 more
- Brownfield land register: 11 - 12 High Street Wisbech CambridgeshireRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
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.
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