®Planning appeal decision
Land At Charter House, 62-68 Hills Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1LA
Without planning permission and within the last 4 years, the unauthorised erection of a sculpture ‘The Cambridge Don’ as shown on Photograph ‘A’ on the Land (identified in blue on the attached plan) (“the unauthorised development”)
- Authority
- Cambridge City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- other · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Merrett R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the sculpture complies with the Council's policies to create successful places, having regard in particular to public art
- the effect of the sculpture on the character and appearance of the area having regard to townscape and heritage assets, in particular the New Town and Glisson Road Conservation Area and nearby listed buildings
- the effect of the plinth on the visual amenity of the area
What decided it
The sculpture's failure to meet the Council's public art and place-making policy objectives (Policies 56 and 59), despite causing no heritage or townscape harm.
The absence of heritage or townscape harm did not outweigh the sculpture's conflict with the Council's public art place-making policies, and the proposed landscaping improvements were not sufficient to outweigh that conflict.
Plan policies cited: Policy 25, Policy 56, Policy 59, Policy 61
Judgments cited: Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd v SSETR (No.2) [2000] 2 PLR 102
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.