5 - 6 York Row Wisbech Cambridgeshire PE13 1EB
Approved on 13 August 2026
Council decision: Grant
Proposal
Internal and external works to a listed building to enable a change of use of existing offices and erection of an extension to form to 9 x flats
- Received
- 19 May 2026
- Council
- Fenland District Council
- Ward
- Wisbech South
- Agent
- Swann Edwards Architecture Limited
- ReceivedReceived19 May
- ValidatedValidated12 Jun
- Consult.Consultation16 Jul
- TargetTarget Date7 Aug
- DecidedDecided13 Aug
Decided in 62 days (council typically 70)
About this application
This is a heritage application for a change of use at 5 - 6 York Row Wisbech Cambridgeshire PE13 1EB. Fenland has handled 251 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 2 weeks 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. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Wisbech South. We hold 1,399 applications in total for the PE13 postcode area.
100% of heritage 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
- PE13 1EB
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wisbech Town Council
- District
- 26/0457/PEND
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 June 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 27 July 2026
- Consultation start
- 25 June 2026
- Consultation end
- 16 July 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 June 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 11 July 2026
- Last date for comments
- 27 July 2026
- Target decision date
- 7 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Swann Edwards Architecture Limited
- Architect profile
- SWANN EDWARDS ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
- Agent address
- Black Barn Fen Road Guyhirn Wisbech Cambridgeshire PE13 4AA
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Tracy Ranger
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 1 July 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 15 July 2026
- Site notice start
- 6 July 2026
- Site notice end
- 27 July 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14943527
- Documents
- 24
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Wisbech
- Listed building: Grade II: CASTLE SQUARE (See details for further address information)On or next to this site
- Article 4 direction: Household Extensions and Alterations in Wisbech and Bowthorpe Conservation Areas+1 more
- 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 (19)
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, 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.
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Associated applications
- 202619 May
Change of use of existing offices and erection of an extension to form to 9 x flats
ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongsideF/YR26/0458/F - 202619 May
Internal and external works to a listed building to enable a change of use of existing offices and erection…
This applicationApprovedListed building consentF/YR26/0459/LB
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