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Old Library Block Wolfson College Barton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire
T1 - Walnut - Fell.
Land North Of Cherry Hinton Coldhams Lane Cambridge CB1 3LG
S73 to remove condition 50 (Highways Details of Coldhams Lane Cycleway and Barnwell Road crossing Improvements) of planning permission 22/01966/S73 (S73 application to vary conditions 5 (Compliance wi
Land North Of Cherry Hinton Coldhams Lane Cambridge Cambridgeshire
S73 to remove condition 50 (Highways Details of Coldhams Lane Cycleway and Barnwell Road crossing Improvements) of planning permission 22/01967/S73 (S73 application to vary conditions 5 (Compliance wi
114B Mowbray Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 7TG
Front porch replacement, loft conversion with front dormers, and erection of new front detached garage.
1 Daws Close Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 9LE
Certificate of lawfulness under S192 for a prposed change of use from C3 (dwellinghouse) to C4 (house in multiple occupancy) for no more than 6 residents.
1 Trumpington Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1QA
Submission of details required by conditions 3 (mortars, plasters and render) and 4 (waterproofing treatments) of Listed Building consent 26/02474/LBC
John Banks Honda 444 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8JL
Submission of details required by condition 5 (Implementation of remediation) and 6 (Completion report) of planning permission 19/0340/FUL
St Andrews House, Ground Floor St Andrews Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1DL
Display of two non-illuminated fascia signs, one non-illuminated free-standing sign and one non-illuminated window graphic
194 Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1NE
Tree 1 - old pear tree (5 m Height) - Fell Tree 2 - smaller tree of undetermined species (4m Height) - Fell
Murray Edwards College Huntingdon Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DF
T1 - HORSE CHESTNUT X 18MS TALL - Reduce subsiding limb at 14ms overhanging road by 2.5ms and reduce 1 lowest limb overhanging path by 2ms to alleviate end weight and ensure pedestrian and vehicular c
Fisher House Guildhall Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3NH
Installation of 2no. non-illuminated fascia signs, 2 new lights and change of colours to doors and windows.
15 Warren Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1LL
Single storey extension to side and rear and alterations to fenestration, following demolition of detached garage.
Applecourt Newton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8AN
Replacement of the electrical building network and consolidation of the existing conduits within communal hall.
Land North Of The Church Lane Papworth St Agnes Cambridgeshire
Non material amendment on application 25/01660/FUL for a minor amendment to the approved scheme, with the northern section of the access track repositioned slightly to the west to accommodate the atte
3 Owlstone Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9JH
Part retrospective 2no rooflights to rear elevation and new window and door to rear ground floor elevation.
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When Cambridge City Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Cambridge City Council, raw rate
23.9%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
28.9%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
5 percentage points below expected. Cambridge City Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
400 appeals counted, 377 judged either way (90 allowed, 287 dismissed), 23 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 226 | 224 | 59 | 26.3% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 87 | 81 | 17 | 21% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 43 | 35 | 5 | 14.3% | 13.5% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 13 | 13 | 2 | 15.4% | 20.6% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0% | 36% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 7 | 7 | 3 | 42.9% | 33.3% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 6 | 6 | 2 | 33.3% | 25% |
| Environmental | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| High Hedges | 2 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 36.9% |
| Called In Planning Application | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 72.4% |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 27.6% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Cambridge City Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Cambridge City Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Cambridge City Council planning portal.
Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.
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