Depending on the type of application, you’ll need to provide different documents to make the application valid. If these documents are not submitted we will not be able to consider your application.
Validation checklists will vary depending on whether the application is for Cambridge City, or South Cambridgeshire. The checklists for each council can be found below.
We check each application against a list of required documents (known as the ‘local list’) and will ask you to provide any documents that are missing.
If we do not get all the information we need, or fees, we write to you (or your agent, if you’re using one) to tell you that your application is invalid. You then have 14 days to give us the information we don’t have which will allow us to validate the application.
New applications, once validated, are normally uploaded to our online planning register within 5 working days.
For details of what you need to submit, select the type of application you want from the menu below.
For applications in Cambridge City
- Consent to display an advertisement
- Proposed lawful development certificate
- Existing lawful development certificate
- Discharge of planning conditions
- Full planning permission
- Planning permission to alter a house
- Listed building consent
- Non-material amendment to planning permission
- Outline planning permission
- Reserved matters approval
- Removal or variation of a planning condition
- Prior approvals
For applications in South Cambridgeshire
- Householder planning application
- Full planning permission
- Outline Planning permission
- Lawful Development Certificate - Existing use
- Approval of Details Reserved by Condition ('discharge of conditions')
- Listed Building consent
- Non-Material Amendment (Section 96A)
- Approval of Reserved Matters
- Advertisement consent
- Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed Use or Development
- Remove or variation of a condition (Section 73)
- Prior Approvals