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3 Merritt Road Cottenham Cambridgeshire CB24 8BB

25/04860/HFULHouseholder Works/ExtensionApproved
Householder

Approved on 26 January 2026

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Garage conversion

Received
12 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cottenham
Agent
Michael Bullivant Associates
  1. Received12 Dec
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.13 Jan
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 3 Merritt Road Cottenham Cambridgeshire CB24 8BB. South Cambridgeshire has handled 5,391 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Cottenham. We hold 1,342 applications in total for the CB24 postcode area.

94% of full 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
CB24 8BB
Application type
Householder Works/Extension
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cottenham CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2025
Last date for comments
13 January 2026
Target decision date
6 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Michael Bullivant Associates
Agent address
2A Golding Road Cambridge CB1 3RP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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