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Bus Compound Grange Farm Newmarket Road Melbourn Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7PR

S/3874/17/FLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 21 December 2017

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Erection of Workshop Building

Received
27 October 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Melbourn
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Dec
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Bus Compound Grange Farm Newmarket Road Melbourn Royston Cambridgeshire SG8 7PR. South Cambridgeshire has handled 5,391 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 93 applications across Melbourn. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 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
SG8 7PR
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melbourn CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2017
Consultation expiry
29 November 2017
Target decision date
25 December 2017
Permission expires
1 May 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Howes Percival
Agent address
Howes Percival, 13/15 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB21NL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 November 2017
Advertisement expiry
29 November 2017

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
5

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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