Planning appeal decision
1 Stansgate Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QZ
Planning appeal 3367256 at 1 Stansgate Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QZ (Cambridge City Council) was allowed on 19 September 2025 by Inspector Price J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would secure acceptable living conditions for existing and future occupiers, with particular regard to the quality of garden space.
erection of addition to 1 Stansgate Avenue and use of new building for 1 x 1 bedroom and 1 x 2 bedroom dwellings
- Authority
- Cambridge City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Price J
- Postcode
- CB2 0QZ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would secure acceptable living conditions for existing and future occupiers, with particular regard to the quality of garden space
- Whether the proposal would provide adequate refuse and cycle storage
- Whether the proposal would cause any material harm to visual amenity or biodiversity, through effects on trees
What decided it
The proposal satisfies the development plan considered as a whole by providing acceptable living conditions, adequate storage, and causing no material harm to visual amenity or biodiversity, thereby allowing the appeal to succeed.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy 50Policy 52Policy 57Policy 58Policy 59Policy 71Policy 82
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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