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Land South Of London Way Melbourn Cambridgeshire

26/02996/SCREEIA Screening OpinionAwaiting decision
Outline / PiP
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Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for a network of underground pipes connecting users within Melbourn to the Data Centre.

Received
7 August 2026
Decision due
28 August 2026
Ward
Melbourn
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.12 Oct
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 12 October.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (30)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land South Of London Way Melbourn Cambridgeshire. South Cambridgeshire has handled 854 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 7 August 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 93 applications across Melbourn.

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

Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Melbourn CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2026
Last date for comments
12 October 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
30

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, 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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