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Buildings At Poplars Farm Wimblington Road Manea Cambridgeshire

F/YR26/0115/FFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 27 April 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Proposal

Change of use of existing agricultural buildings to B2 general industrial use (retrospective)

Received
22 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chatteris North And Manea
Agent
Morton & Hall Consulting Ltd
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.11 Mar
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 73 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Buildings At Poplars Farm Wimblington Road Manea Cambridgeshire. Fenland has handled 2,964 applications of this type. This one was decided in 95 days, 4 weeks longer 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 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
Small
Parish
Manea Parish Council
District
26/0069/PEND

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2026
Consultation expiry
27 April 2026
Consultation start
18 February 2026
Consultation end
11 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
27 April 2026
Neighbour consultation end
27 April 2026
Last date for comments
27 April 2026
Target decision date
10 April 2026
Permission expires
27 April 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Morton & Hall Consulting Ltd
Architect profile
MORTON AND HALL CONSULTING LIMITED
Agent address
1 Gordon Avenue March Cambs PE15 8AJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 February 2026
Advertisement expiry
11 March 2026
Site notice start
25 February 2026
Site notice end
18 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14641747
Documents
38

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

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.

Source: Fenland

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