Land At Junction Of A47 Cromwell Road Wisbech Cambridgeshire Data via plota.co.uk

F/YR26/0731/F - Full Planning Permission Pending consideration

Proposal

Hybrid planning application (part full/part outline): Full planning permission to erect a Class (E(a)) Food Store, Petrol Filling Station (Sui-Generis) and ancillary Retail Kiosk (E(a)); a Drive-Thru Restaurant (Sui-Generis/E(b)) and Electric Vehicle Charging Facility, and the formation of access, servicing, parking and site-wide levelling works and supporting infrastructure. Outline planning permission (with all matters reserved) to erect up to 7800 sq m of commercial/industrial uses including: (B2/B8/Eg (iii)); Drive-Thru Restaurants and/or Drive-To Diner (Sui-Generis/E(b)); Hotel (C1)) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 05:21

Application progress

✓

Received

5 Aug 2026

✓

Validated

2 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 1 Jan 2027

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 27 Nov 2026, from Fenland's recent commercial and major works.

Documents 67

Statements & assessments 26

Plans & drawings 33

Application forms 2

PDF CIL FORM Other · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Article 4 direction

Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in Wisbech. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

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 1. 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.

National infrastructure project about 484 m away: Medworth Energy from Waste Combined Heat and Power Facility

The site is about 484 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Not affected

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, the Planning Inspectorate 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

Council: Fenland
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Received: 5 Aug 2026
Validated: 2 Oct 2026
Ward: Wisbech South
Parish: Wisbech Town Council
Target decision: 1 Jan 2027
Agent: Firstplan

Decision outlook

Day 7 of the 56-day target. Fenland usually decides commercial and major works by day 56.

prediction

Day 749 days to the 56-day target

63%decided within 8 weeks

95%approved

6%go to committee

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Fenland in the last twelve months, from validation. Fenland decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 3 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15030025
Planning Portal ref: PP-15030025
Statutory expiry: 1 Jan 2027
Env. assessment: No

Fenland

Planning Authority Score

6.1/10

Average

#98 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Fenland is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #58 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) 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

Fenland decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #170 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #128 of 296

77%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #58 of 296

42%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #163 of 296

78%

Minor dwellings approved

194 decided (1-9 homes)

77%

Major dwellings approved

26 decided (10+ homes)

90%

Change of use approved

29 decided

604

Total decisions

79 refused in the year to March 2026