March Town Football Club Sports Ground Robingoodfellows Lane March Cambridgeshire PE15 8HS
Approved on 2 May 2025
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of replacement floodlighting system involving removal of existing floodlights and erection of 4x 18m masts with 16x LED floodlights
- Received
- 7 January 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Fenland District Council
- Ward
- March North
- ReceivedReceived7 Jan
- ValidatedValidated11 Mar
- Consult.Consultation3 Apr
- TargetTarget Date6 May
- DecidedDecided2 May
Decided in 52 days (council typically 70)
About this application
This is a full planning application at March Town Football Club Sports Ground Robingoodfellows Lane March Cambridgeshire PE15 8HS. Fenland has handled 2,964 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 6 weeks longer than Fenland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across March North. We hold 1,220 applications in total for the PE15 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- PE15 8HS
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- March Town Council
- District
- 25/0014/PEND
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 13 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 13 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 3 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 May 2025
- Permission expires
- 2 May 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Abacus Lighting
- Agent address
- Abacus Lighting Ltd Oddicroft Lane Sutton In Ashfield NG17 5FT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 13 March 2025
- Site notice end
- 3 April 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13651236
- Documents
- 16
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (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.
Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences
Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
© 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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