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Land South West Of Thomas Clarkson Academy Corporation Road Wisbech Cambridgeshire

F/YR24/0857/FFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 4 August 2025

24 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erect a secondary school (3-storey) with associated fencing (up to 3.0m high), PE courts, external lighting, parking, access, landscaping and drainage

Received
29 August 2024
Ward
Wisbech South
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated25 Oct
  3. Consult.15 Jul
  4. Target24 Jan
  5. Decided4 Aug

Decided in 283 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land South West Of Thomas Clarkson Academy Corporation Road Wisbech Cambridgeshire. Fenland has handled 2,964 applications of this type. This one was decided in 340 days, 39 weeks longer than Fenland's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Wisbech South.

90% of full applications at Fenland District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Wisbech Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 October 2024
Consultation expiry
15 July 2025
Consultation start
15 July 2025
Consultation end
15 July 2025
Neighbour consultation start
14 November 2024
Neighbour consultation end
5 December 2024
Last date for comments
15 July 2025
Target decision date
24 January 2025
Committee meeting
23 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
DPP
Agent address
1 Park Row Leeds West Yorkshire LS1 5HN

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 November 2024
Advertisement expiry
20 November 2024
Site notice start
14 November 2024
Site notice end
5 December 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13211867
Documents
186

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in Wisbech
  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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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.

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    29 Aug

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