The Guildhall 2 Station Road Dullingham Newmarket Suffolk CB8 9UP Data via plota.co.uk

25/01278/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Installation of a sliding driveway gate at the rear of property Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
24 Nov 2025
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Validated
16 Jan 2026
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Consultation
26 Mar 2026
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Approved
26 Mar 2026

Approved on 26 Mar 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Jul 2026

Site constraints 6

9 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Dullingham House, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 9 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Registered park or garden: Dullingham House
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Dullingham conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 22 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Application type
Full Application
Postcode
CB8 9UP
Received
24 Nov 2025
Validated
16 Jan 2026
Ward
Woodditton
Parish
Dullingham
Case officer
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Target decision
13 Mar 2026
Decision
Approve
Decision date
26 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 69 days from validation, 13 days slower than East Cambridgeshire's median of 56 for extensions. Approved, as 94% of extensions here are.

68%decided within 8 weeks
94%approved
243decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by East Cambridgeshire in the last twelve months, from validation. East Cambridgeshire decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14511415
Planning Portal ref
PP-14511415
Neighbours
26 Jan 2026
Consultation
26 Mar 2026
Comments by
25 Mar 2026
Site or press notice
29 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry
13 Mar 2026
East Cambridgeshire
Planning Authority Score
6.1/10
Average
#97 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

East Cambridgeshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #65 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
East Cambridgeshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
86%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #193 of 296
89%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #202 of 296
76%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #65 of 296
34%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #85 of 296
74%
Minor dwellings approved
124 decided (1-9 homes)
80%
Major dwellings approved
15 decided (10+ homes)
87%
Change of use approved
30 decided
697
Total decisions
96 refused in the year to March 2026