Rectory Farm Brook Street Elsworth Cambridgeshire CB23 4HX

24/00289/PRIORPrior ApprovalApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 April 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval GivenDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

To replace an existing out-of-date lean-to building with a larger lean-to building on the same site.

Received: 25 January 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: South Cambridgeshire District Council
Ward: Caxton & Papworth

ReceivedReceived25 Jan
ValidatedValidated5 Feb
Consult.Consultation12 Apr
TargetTarget Date3 Mar
DecidedDecided15 Apr

Decided in 70 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Rectory Farm Brook Street Elsworth Cambridgeshire CB23 4HX. South Cambridgeshire has handled 854 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 5 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 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 4HX
Application type: Prior Approval
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Elsworth CP
District: South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 February 2024
Last date for comments: 12 April 2024
Target decision date: 3 March 2024
Permission expires: 15 April 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period: 27 days

Additional information

Documents: 19
Constraints: 2

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.

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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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: South Cambridgeshire

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