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Land North Of Newmarket Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire.

23/01938/S73Section 73 - Remove/Vary ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 September 2023

Council decision: Granted PermissionPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

S73 to vary condition 1 (Approved plans) of planning permission 22/03432/S73 (S73 to vary condition 29 of ref: 22/02554/S73 (Reserved matters application detailing access appearance landscaping layout and scale for the creation of 239 new homes and non-residential floorspace including 'Market Square' internal roads landscaping and associated works as part of Phase 1a of the Wing masterplan pursuant to condition 5 (reserved matters) of outline planning permission S/2682/13/OL) to enable retail unit 2 to be used for purposes covered under Use Class E(a), E(b), E(c), E(d), E(e) and E(gii) within Class E) g) to re-orientate seven houses that front Gregory Park (Lot D3) and to replace eight carports with garages (D3).

Received
19 May 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Fen Ditton & Fulbourn
Agent
Terence O'Rourke Ltd
  1. Received19 May
  2. Validated19 May
  3. Consult.14 Jun
  4. Target18 Aug
  5. Decided27 Sep

Decided in 131 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Land North Of Newmarket Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire.. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,693 applications of this type. This one was decided in 131 days, 12 weeks longer than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across Fen Ditton & Fulbourn. We hold 539 applications in total for the CB5 postcode area.

95% of conditions applications at South Cambridgeshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB5 8AA
Application type
Section 73 - Remove/Vary Condition
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
239
Parish
Fen Ditton CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 May 2023
Consultation expiry
23 June 2023
Consultation start
8 September 2023
Consultation end
14 June 2023
Neighbour consultation end
14 June 2023
Last date for comments
23 June 2023
Target decision date
18 August 2023
Committee meeting
20 September 2023
Permission expires
27 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Terence O'Rourke Ltd
Agent address
Everdene House Deansleigh Road Bournemouth BH7 7DU

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
31 May 2023
Advertisement expiry
21 June 2023
Site notice start
2 June 2023
Site notice end
23 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
35
Constraints
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Wing Development, North of Newmarket Road, CambridgeRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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 and heritage coasts.

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: South Cambridgeshire

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