Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX Data via plota.co.uk

25/03416/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Conversion of existing granary, cart-lodges, and shelter sheds into a two-storey self build dwelling. Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
1 Sept 2025
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Consultation
17 Sept 2025
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Approved
5 Nov 2025

Approved on 5 Nov 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 11 Oct 2026

Documents 35

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DECISION NOTICE Application Decision Notice · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF DELEGATION REPORT Application Committee / Delegated Report · 5 Nov 2025 View ↗

Statements & assessments 13

PDF DRAINAGE Consultee Comments · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN Consultee Comments · 9 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF DRAINAGE Consultee Comments · 23 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF ECOLOGY Consultee Comments · 23 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF ECOLOGY Consultee Comments · 23 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL APPRAISAL AND ROOST ASSESSMENT Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT STATEMNT Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PLANNING AND HERITAGE STATEMENT Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF LEIGH ALSTON - HERITAGE ASSET ASSESSMENT Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF JD ECOLOGY - BAT REPORT Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF TIMBER FRAME CONDITION AND REPAIR SURVEY AND DRAWINGS Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 2012.03.13 - TANDF_STRUCTURAL SURVEY Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗

Application forms 3

PDF APPLICATION FORM - NO PERSONAL INFO Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF FEE CALCULATION Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF CIL FORM 1_ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 10

PDF BNE - CONSERVATION Consultee Comments · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY Consultee Comments · 26 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF TREES Consultee Comments · 24 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF NATURAL ENGLAND Consultee Comments · 24 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Consultee Comments · 23 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF CLIMATE, WASTE & ENVIRONMENT Consultee Comments · 18 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF HISTORIC ENGLAND Consultee Comments · 12 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF DEFINITIVE MAP TEAM Consultee Comments · 10 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION Consultee Comments · 10 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF MAP OF NOTIFIED NEIGHBOURS Neighbour/Consultee Notification List · 5 Sept 2025 View ↗

Other documents 7

PDF EOT AGREEMENT Correspondence · 15 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER Application Officer Correspondence · 5 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF SITE NOTICE Application Press/Site Notices · 5 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF RECEIPT Application Officer Correspondence · 4 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF APPLICATION VALID Application Officer Correspondence · 4 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF ATTACHMENT SUMMARY FROM PORTAL Attachment Summary · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF COVER LETTER Application Information · 1 Sept 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 3

Site constraints 9

Grade II listed: Worsted Lodge Farmhouse
List entry 1127128 · The pin is inside its outline
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.
Historic England ↗
Scheduled monument 33 m away: Worstead Street (Via Devana) near Cambridge
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 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 2. 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.
SSSI 30 m away: Roman Road SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
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
Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project 263 m away: Kingsway Solar Farm, at pre-application; Green belt 62 m away: Cambridge; Priority habitat 34 m away: Lowland calcareous grassland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3

Checked on 11 October 2026. 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £620,000 in August 2017. Detached house, freehold.

21 March 2023£187,560Other property. Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale
4 August 2017£620,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
South Cambridgeshire
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
CB22 3AX
Received
1 Sept 2025
Validated
1 Sept 2025
Ward
Balsham
Parish
Balsham CP
Case officer
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Target decision
6 Nov 2025
Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
5 Nov 2025
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
protaHOMES Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 65 days from validation, 7 days faster than South Cambridgeshire's median of 72 for full applications. Approved, as 89% of full applications here are.

34%decided within 8 weeks
89%approved
302decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

9 neighbours consulted · Last counted 11 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Site or press notice
17 Sept 2025
Statutory expiry
27 Oct 2025
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

37 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Decided
Submission of details required by conditions 3(Desk Study) and 4(Bat and Barn Owls Survey…
25/03416/CONDA
2025 Decided
Submission of details required by conditions 3(Desk Study) and 4(Bat and Barn Owls Survey…
25/03416/CONDA
2025 Approved
Conversion of 1 No. Barn to residential use (Class C3) and new roof.
25/00616/LBC
2025 Approved
Conversion of 1 No. Barn to residential use (Class C3) and new roof.
25/00615/FUL
2025 Approved
Conversion of 1 No. Barn to residential use (Class C3) and new roof.
25/00616/LBC
2025 Approved
Conversion of 1 No. Barn to residential use (Class C3) and new roof.
25/00615/FUL
2023 Withdrawn
Submission of details required by condition 14 (10% Carbon Emission) of planning permissi…
20/01941/CONDC
2023 Withdrawn
Submission of details required by condition 14 (10% Carbon Emission) of planning permissi…
20/01941/CONDC
2023 Approved
Submission of details required by condition 9 (Disposal of Surface and Foul Water) of pla…
20/01941/CONDD
2023 Approved
Submission of details required by condition 9 (Disposal of Surface and Foul Water) of pla…
20/01941/CONDD
2023 Approved
Submission of details required by condition 6 (Contamination) of planning permission 20/0…
20/01941/CONDB
2023 Approved
Submission of details required by condition 6 (Contamination) of planning permission 20/0…
20/01941/CONDB
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
Worsted Lodge Farm London Road Old A11 Babraham Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
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2025 Approved
Worsted Lodge Farm London Road Old A11 Babraham Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Conversion of existing granary, cart-lodges, and shelter sheds into a two-storey self bui…
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2024 Refused
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Conversion of a derelict granary, cartlodges and shelter sheds into a two storey self-bui…
24/04295/LBC
2024 Refused
Worsted Lodge Farm Babraham Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Conversion of a derelict granary, cartlodges and shelter sheds into a two storey self-bui…
24/04294/FUL
2024 Refused
Worsted Lodge Farm Babraham Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Conversion of a derelict granary, cartlodges and shelter sheds into a two storey self-bui…
24/04295/LBC
2024 Refused
Worsted Lodge Farm Babraham Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Conversion of a derelict granary, cartlodges and shelter sheds into a two storey self-bui…
24/04294/FUL
2019 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Amendments and replacements to fenestration and internal alterations to attic level stair…
S/1070/19/LB
2019 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
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2020 Refused
Worsted Lodge, Granary And Cart Lodges London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
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2020 Approved
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Barn conversion
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2020 Approved
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2020 Refused
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Barn conversion and new two bay garage
20/05296/FUL
2020 Refused
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Barn conversion and new two bay garage
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2020 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Retention of window replacements to the farmhouse
20/04458/LBC
2020
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Retention of window replacements to the farmhouse
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2020 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Barn conversion to residential use at Worsted Lodge
20/01942/LBC
2020 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Barn conversion to residential use at Worsted Lodge
20/01941/FUL
2020 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Barn conversion to residential use at Worsted Lodge
20/01942/LBC
2020 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Barn conversion to residential use at Worsted Lodge
20/01941/FUL
2020
Worsted Lodge, Granary And Cart Lodges London Road Old A11 Babraham CB22 3AX
Replacement of rotten parts of timber structure, new timber infill for storage within and…
20/02076/HFUL
2019 Withdrawn
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Babraham Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Proposed barn conversion to residential use and alterations adjacent to Worsted Farmhouse.
S/0697/19/LB
2018 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Balsham Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Demolition of garage and outbuilding. Erection of car port and storage. Internal alterati…
S/2714/18/LB
2018 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Balsham Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
Demolition of garage and outbuilding. Erection of car port and storage. Internal alterati…
S/2714/18/LB
2018 Approved
Worsted Lodge London Road Old A11 Balsham Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB22 3AX
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South Cambridgeshire
Planning Authority Score
8.1/10
Excellent
#25 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

South Cambridgeshire is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #24 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
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South Cambridgeshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #45 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #91 of 296
84%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #24 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #60 of 296
86%
Minor dwellings approved
215 decided (1-9 homes)
96%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
79%
Change of use approved
38 decided
1,509
Total decisions
96 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold boundary: © Crown copyright and database rights 2026, HM Land Registry. Polygons © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey 100026316. Conditions of use