Wheatsheaf House 5 High Street Cottenham Cambridgeshire CB24 8SA
Proposal
Certificate of lawfulness under S192 for a proposed use to convert existing 5-bed care home into 3 self-contained supported living units.
- Received
- 18 November 2025
- Decided
- 20 January 2026 · Certificate Granted
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Cottenham
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- ReceivedSubmitted18 Nov
- ValidatedValidated18 Nov
- Consult.Consultation25 Nov
- TargetTarget Date13 Jan
- DecidedDecided20 Jan
Decided in 63 days (council typically 49)
This is an outline application at Wheatsheaf House 5 High Street Cottenham Cambridgeshire CB24 8SA. South Cambridgeshire has handled 819 applications of this type and approves 77% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than South Cambridgeshire's median. The site is in the Cottenham conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across Cottenham. We hold 1,260 applications in total for the CB24 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
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- Conservation area: Cottenham
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, 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.
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