Land west of Mepal AD Plant and south Of Grey's Farm, Chatteris, PE16 6XA Data via plota.co.uk

CCC/26/083/FUL - Full application Out to consultation

Proposal

Anaerobic digestion plant, access road, associated infrastructure and landscaping. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 01:17

Application progress

✓

Received

1 Jun 2026

✓

Validated

11 Aug 2026

Decision

Target date was 6 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision by 10 Nov 2026, from Cambridgeshire County Council's recent full applications.

Documents 90

Statements & assessments 25

Plans & drawings 38

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Redacted Application submission · 11 Aug 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 20

Site constraints 6

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.

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Scheduled monument about 35 m away: Neolithic enclosures at Grey's Farm, Horseley Fen

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

Historic England ↗

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) agrees.

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.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Heritage at risk about 35 m away: Neolithic enclosures at Grey's Farm, Horseley Fen; National infrastructure project about 28 m away: Chatteris Wind Farm, at pre-application.

Not affected

Not green belt

Checked on 18 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, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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: Cambridgeshire County Council
Application type: Full application
Postcode: PE16 6XA
Received: 1 Jun 2026
Validated: 11 Aug 2026
Case officer: Show
Agent: Arthur Consultancy Services

Decision outlook

Day 78, past the statutory target. 70% of full applications in Cambridgeshire County Council are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 10 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 26 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 7822 days past the 56-day target

20%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

11decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Cambridgeshire County Council in the last twelve months, from validation. Cambridgeshire County Council decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 12 Aug 2026