Kneesworth House Hospital Old North Road Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cambridgeshire SG8 5JP
Approved on 2 December 2024
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of roof mounted solar photovoltaic panels
- Received
- 3 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Bassingbourn
- Agent
- Alder King Planning Consultants
- ReceivedReceived3 Oct
- ValidatedValidated8 Oct
- Consult.Consultation7 Nov
- TargetTarget Date3 Dec
- DecidedDecided2 Dec
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application for a solar installation at Kneesworth House Hospital Old North Road Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cambridgeshire SG8 5JP. South Cambridgeshire has handled 754 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Bassingbourn. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 postcode area.
98% of heritage 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
- SG8 5JP
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth CP
- District
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 16 October 2024
- Last date for comments
- 7 November 2024
- Target decision date
- 3 December 2024
- Permission expires
- 2 December 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Alder King Planning Consultants
- Agent address
- Pembroke House 15 Pembroke Road Bristol BS8 3BA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 16 October 2024
- Site notice start
- 17 October 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 36
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0039 (2003)Protected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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Source: South Cambridgeshire
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