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East Cambridgeshire

East Cambridgeshire approved 86.2% of the applications it decided, 0.8% below the England average.

Approved

86.2%

England 87%

Decided on time

93.8%

Inside the statutory period

Applications a year

720

Decided in the reporting year

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Against the country

Harder than the average.

The England benchmark is 87%. It is the share of decided applications that were approved, so a withdrawal counts as neither. Source: MHCLG Live Table P120A (England, rolling 12-month).

What we hold, and what we do not

East Cambridgeshire

86.2%

England

87%

Standard-method local housing need: 583 dwellings a year.

The rules here

What this authority decides against.

An application is judged against the adopted development plan unless material considerations say otherwise. This is that plan, and the levy that comes with it.

Local planEast Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2015 (as amended 2023)
Adopted2015-04-21
Community Infrastructure LevyCharging schedule adopted

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What Wren does here

13.8% of applications here are refused.

East Cambridgeshire decided 720 applications in the reporting year, and refused about 13.8% of them. A refusal is usually a document problem rather than a scheme problem: the policy that governs it was not addressed, or the evidence it asks for was not there.

Wren drafts against East Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2015 (as amended 2023), a chartered planner reads the draft and signs it under their own indemnity, and a case manager files it and chases it. A householder application is £499, and East Cambridgeshire's own statutory fee is separate and paid by you directly to them.

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