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Sawston Village College New Road Sawston Cambridgeshire CB22 3BP

24/01896/SCREEIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 July 2024

Council decision: EIA Screening Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (As Amended) for the proposed demolition of several existing school buildings and the erection of a replacement two-storey educational building along with associated landscaping and infrastructure.

Received
16 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sawston
Agent
DPP Planning
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target6 Jun
  5. Decided10 Jul

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Sawston Village College New Road Sawston Cambridgeshire CB22 3BP. South Cambridgeshire has handled 854 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Sawston. We hold 1,974 applications in total for the CB22 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
CB22 3BP
Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Sawston CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2024
Last date for comments
4 June 2024
Target decision date
6 June 2024
Permission expires
10 July 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
DPP Planning
Agent address
SPACES Fitzrovia, The Harley Building 77-79 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6XB

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
15
Constraints
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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