Witcham Meadlands Block Fen Drove Chatteris Cambridgeshire

F/YR24/2004/CCCCambridgeshire County CouncilApproved

Approved on 19 November 2024

Council decision: No comment to makeDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Continued disposal of stable non-reactive hazardous waste with revised final contours and restoration (part retrospective). Creation of wetgrassland on previously restored agricultural land at Witcham Meadlands Quarry, Block Fen Drove, Mepal, CB6 2AY

Received: 28 October 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Fenland District Council
Ward: Chatteris North And Manea

ReceivedReceived28 Oct
ValidatedValidated28 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date18 Nov
DecidedDecided19 Nov

Decided in 22 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a planning application at Witcham Meadlands Block Fen Drove Chatteris Cambridgeshire. Fenland has handled 106 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 7 weeks quicker than Fenland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 93 applications across Chatteris North And Manea.

90% of all 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: Cambridgeshire County Council
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Manea Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 October 2024
Target decision date: 18 November 2024
Permission expires: 19 November 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period: 21 days

Additional information

Documents: 4

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 3: High 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 (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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© 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.

Source: Fenland

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