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Grange Farm Bourn Road Caxton Cambridgeshire CB23 3PP

23/03253/PRIORPrior ApprovalRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 16 October 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to 5 No. Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3), and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion.

Received
23 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Caxton & Papworth
  1. Received23 Aug
  2. Validated23 Aug
  3. Consult.19 Sep
  4. Target18 Oct
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Grange Farm Bourn Road Caxton Cambridgeshire CB23 3PP. South Cambridgeshire has handled 854 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Caxton & Papworth. We hold 2,506 applications in total for the CB23 postcode area.

81% of outline 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
CB23 3PP
Application type
Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Caxton CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 August 2023
Consultation expiry
9 October 2023
Consultation start
29 August 2023
Consultation end
19 September 2023
Neighbour consultation end
19 September 2023
Last date for comments
9 October 2023
Target decision date
18 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Brown&Co
Agent address
The Fairways Wyboston Lakes Great North Road Wyboston St.neots Bedfordshire MK44 3AL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 September 2023
Site notice end
9 October 2023

Additional information

Documents
29
Constraints
4

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 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

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, 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: South Cambridgeshire

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