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Merton Farm Church End Gamlingay Cambridgeshire SG19 3EP

24/04409/CLUEDLawful Development Cert (s191)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 14 January 2025

Council decision: Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness under S191 for the lawful commencement of planning application 21/00423/FUL (Conversion of barns with new build elements to create 4 dwellings, partial demolition of a barn and creation of an access track) by virtue of demolition of the lean-to structure adjacent to the retained building to the north.

Received
25 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gamlingay
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated25 Nov
  3. Consult.26 Nov
  4. Target20 Jan
  5. Decided14 Jan

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Merton Farm Church End Gamlingay Cambridgeshire SG19 3EP. South Cambridgeshire has handled 559 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Gamlingay. We hold 809 applications in total for the SG19 postcode area.

87% of amendment 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
SG19 3EP
Application type
Lawful Development Cert (s191)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Gamlingay CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 November 2024
Last date for comments
26 November 2024
Target decision date
20 January 2025
Permission expires
14 January 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Brown&Co
Agent address
The Fairways Wyboston Lakes Great North Road St Neots MK43 3AL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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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