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Old Library Block Wolfson College Barton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire
T1 - Walnut - Fell.
The Shielings Highfields Road Highfields Caldecote Caldecote Cambridgeshire CB23 7NX
S73 to vary condition 3 of ref: 25/04450/FUL (Change of Use of a Barn to be used as a Dog Day Care Facility) to read 'The use of the barn as a dog daycare facility shall be operated other than between
Land Adjacent To 104 Station Road Great Wilbraham Cambridgeshire CB21 5JA
Change of use of public highway land from public highway to private residential garden, together with the construction of a low level boundary fence/hedging on any unfenced sides.
31 Mill Lane Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cambridgeshire SG8 5PP
Installation of staircase, new internal partition, upgrading first floor storage area to a shower room, minor alterations to internal layout and 3no.rooflights to rear elevation.
Land At 10 North End Meldreth Cambridgeshire SG8 6NR
Technical Details Stage 2 application for residential development to provide 5 no. custom build dwellings and an orchard granted Stage 1 Permission in Principle under reference 24/03144/PIP.
7 Dodford Lane Girton Cambridgeshire CB3 0QE
Erection of a single storey rear extension following demolition of existing conservatory.
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
Land Adjacent To 6 Earith Road Willingham Cambridgeshire CB24 5LS
Installation of 1 No. 10m light wooden pole.
15 Woollards Lane Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5LZ
Installation of Parking Management Signage to include 1 No. Entry Sign installed on existing pole, 1 No. Blue Badge only parking sign, 6 No. Tariff/Terms and Conditions signs, 4 No. Tariff signs to be
The Old Rectory High Street Hildersham Cambridgeshire CB21 6BU
Cedar - To remove major dead wood Thin branch ends by 15-20% Reduce crown by 2-3m to suitable growing points Tidy spur as much as possible from recent limb failure
Trinity Stables Oakington Road Dry Drayton Cambridgeshire CB23 8DD
Change of Use of Buildings on Agricultural Units and former Agricultural Buildings to 1 No. Dwellinghouse (Class C3)
Rose Villa Little Heath Gamlingay Cambridgeshire SG19 3LL
Submission of details required by condition 3 (Surface water drainage scheme), 4 (Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Plan), 5 (Contaminated land), 6 (Remediation compliance), 8 (Scheme of ecology enhancement
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Cambridge Road Hinxton Cambridgeshire CB10 1RQ
Non material amendment on planning permission 23/00482/FUL to Condition 10 Wording and AIA Update
106 Cambridge Road Waterbeach Cambridgeshire CB25 9NJ
Certificate of lawfulness under S192 for the construction of a replacement conservatory on side elevation.
51 Mill Road Willingham Cambridgeshire CB24 5HE
S73 to remove condition 2 (agriculture) of ref: C/0139/67/D (Erection of bungalow and garage).
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When South 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.
South Cambridgeshire District Council, raw rate
30.7%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
29.2%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
1.5 percentage points above expected. South Cambridgeshire District Council's decisions are overturned more often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
828 appeals counted, 748 judged either way (230 allowed, 518 dismissed), 80 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 | 536 | 521 | 169 | 32.4% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 147 | 144 | 47 | 32.6% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 97 | 42 | 3 | 7.1% | 13.5% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 17 | 15 | 4 | 26.7% | 25% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 16 | 15 | 6 | 40% | 36.9% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0% | 20.6% |
| Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 8.1% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 33.3% |
| Environmental | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Section 106 Agreement | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 39.8% |
“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.
South 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.
South 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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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official South Cambridgeshire District Council planning portal.
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