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Fen View 16 Ely Road Prickwillow Cambridgeshire CB7 4UJ
Demolition of subsiding bungalow and replacement with 1nr self build house
31 Thorn Close Soham Cambridgeshire CB7 5EH
Erection of single storey extension with mono pitch roof
1 Manor Farm Barns 34A The Street Snailwell Newmarket Suffolk CB8 7LX
Installation of cat flap to rear door
35 Forehill Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4AA
G1 2x Sycamore - Reduce crowns by 5m to create pollards with approximate finished heights of 8m
Alderforth Farm Witchford Road Ely Cambridgeshire CB6 3NN
Demolition of the existing dwelling house and associated ancillary stable building and the construction of a replacement dwelling house with associated parking and amenity space (Use Class C3)
165 High Street Cheveley Cambridgeshire CB8 9DG
Extension, Internal alterations, upgrades and cart lodge replacement
9 Broad Street Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4AJ
Installation of 1no. non-illuminated fascia and 1no. projecting signs, window graphics, frosted film and associated works
165 High Street Cheveley Cambridgeshire CB8 9DG
Extension, Internal alterations, upgrades and cart lodge replacement
Land North Of Electricity Sub-Station Weirs Drove Burwell
To discharge Condition 8 (Noise Verification Report) of decision 21/00816/FUL dated 10th December 2021 for construction of a 30MW battery energy storage system facility and associated access, landscap
St Marys Church St Marys Street Ely Cambridgeshire
Storage building
6 The Street Snailwell Cambridgeshire CB8 7LX
Proposed conversion of existing detached, single garage to become a home office / bedroom with kitchenette and shower room
Land To Rear Of 39-43 High Street Wicken Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 5XR
Change of use to equestrian grazing and agricultural grazing, as well as erection of a timber field shelter
6 The Street Snailwell Cambridgeshire CB8 7LX
Conversion of existing detached, single garage to become a home office/bedroom with kitchenette and shower room.
4 Vineyard Way Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4QQ
T1 Whitebeam - Create a pollard to around 7ft (2.5m) tall to reduce the risk of failure and create a safe monolith for habitat. The tree has been suffering from vascular dysfunction for some time. A l
Lode Baptist Chapel High Street Lode Cambridgeshire CB25 9EW
Change of use to convert former Baptist Chapel into a single new dwelling, involving partial demolition of later extensions, construction of a new two-storey extension and sundry landscaping and acces
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When East Cambridgeshire District 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.
East Cambridgeshire District Council, raw rate
28.6%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
29%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
0.4 percentage points below expected. East Cambridgeshire District Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
395 appeals counted, 381 judged either way (109 allowed, 272 dismissed), 14 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-05.
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 | 278 | 275 | 76 | 27.6% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 63 | 60 | 18 | 30% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 30 | 25 | 9 | 36% | 13.5% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 9 | 7 | 1 | 14.3% | 25% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 8 | 8 | 4 | 50% | 36.9% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 3 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 33.3% |
| High Hedges | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 36% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
“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.
East Cambridgeshire District 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.
East Cambridgeshire District 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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