Planning application
New Shardelowes Farm Balsham Road Fulbourn Cambridgeshire CB21 5DA
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
A new Cambridge Airbase for East Anglian Air Ambulance including a hangar, garage, crew facilities, offices, training facilities, FATO area (final approach and take off), sleeping accommodation and other associated infrastructure including landscaping, parking and drainage.
As published by the council, reference 25/04493/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 25/04493/FUL
- Type
- Full Application
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Granted As published: Granted Permission
- Received
- 19 Nov 2025
- Validated
- 19 Nov 2025
- Decided
- 6 Aug 2026
- Ward
- Fen Ditton & Fulbourn
- Parish
- Fulbourn CP
- Decision by
- Committee Decision (Area/Main)
- Postcode
- CB21 5DA
Timeline
Dates from the published record
-
19 Nov 2025
Received by South Cambridgeshire
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23 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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6 Aug 2026
Decision issued: Granted Permission
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Savills Limited Agent, registered in London
Active · incorporated 1987 · London
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
141 documents on file for this application
- DECISION NOTICE
- OFFICER REPORT
- UNILATERAL UNDERTAKING DATED 03/08/2026
- COMMITTEE MINUTES
- SIGNED UNILATERAL UNDERTAKING
- EOT REQUEST
- DRAFT UU
- EOT REQUEST
- EOT REQUEST
- MOD SAFEGUARDING
- EOT REQUEST
- EOT REQUEST
- AMENDED INDICATIVE PHASING EMAIL
- AMENDED INDICATIVE PHASING PLAN
- COMMITTEE UPDATE REPORT
- 4 WATERWORKS COTTAGES
- COMMITTEE REPORT
- AGENT/APPLICANT PUBLIC SPEAKING LETTER
- TREES
- URBAN DESIGN
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
- LANDSCAPE
- CONTAMINATED LAND
- LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
- ECOLOGY
- CONTAMINATED LAND
- PARISH
- LOCAL LEAD FLOOD AUTHORITY
- AMENDED SURFACE WATER CALCULATIONS
- AMENDED FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT
- TREES
- LEAD LOCAL FLOOD AUTHORITY
- SUSTAINABILITY
- POLICE ARCHITECTURAL LIAISON OFFICER
- LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY NOISE CONSULTANT RESPONSE TO AMENDMENT
- CONSERVATION
- AMENDED RESPONSE TO CONSULTEE COMMENTS
- AMENDED COVERING EMAIL
- AMENDED LANDSCAPE STRATEGY PLAN
- AMENDED TOPOGRAPGHIC SURVEY SHEET 1 OF 3
- AMENDED PRELIMINARY SITE ACCESS
- AMENDED LOCATION PLAN
- AMENDED PROPOSED BLOCK PLAN
- AMENDED PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL APPRAISAL REPORT
- AMENDED WINTERING BIRD SURVEY REPORT
- AMENDED NOISE TECHNICAL NOTE
- AMENDED BREEDING BIRD AND BARN OWL SURVEY REPORT
- AMENDED IMAGE OF HELIMED HOUSE, NORWICH
- AMENDED BAT ACTIVITY SURVEY REPORT
- AMENDED FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT
- EOT REQUEST
- MAGPAS AIR AMBULANCE
- PARISH
- LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY NOISE CONSULTANT RESPONSE
- NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS
- POLICE ARCHITECTURAL LIAISON OFFICER
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- IPSWICH HOSPITAL
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- URBAN DESIGN
- LLFA
- ECOLOGY
- LANDSCAPE
- WASTE - SHARED SERVICE
- CLIMATE, WASTE & ENVIRONMENT
- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS
- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS
- HISTORIC ENGLAND
- NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
- HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL OFFICER
- TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT
- SUSTAINABILITY
- LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
- LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
- CONTAMINATED LAND
- ACTIVE ENGLAND
- ANGLIAN WATER
- 4 WATERWORKS COTTAGES
- AMENDED PLANNING STATEMENT
- DESIGNING OUT CRIME OFFICER
- NATURAL ENGLAND
- LLFA
- BNE - CONSERVATION
- SUSTAINABILITY
- FIRE & RESCUE SERVICES
- WASTE - SHARED SERVICE
- AMENDED DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER
- MAP OF NOTIFIED NEIGHBOURS
- AIRPORT SAFEGUARDING
- ANGLIAN WATER
- SITE NOTICE
- APPLICATION FORM - NO PERSONAL INFO
- FEE CALCULATION
- ATTACHMENT SUMMARY FROM PORTAL
- GREEN BELT ASSESSMENT 2025 11 11
- AIA DWG
- TREE SURVEY AND ARBORICULLTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- BAT SURVEY REPORT
- SUPERSEDED DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT
- COVER EMAIL
- BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN FEASIBILLITY STAGE REPORT
- EAAA CAMBRIDGE NOISE REPORT 13.10.25
- ELEVATIONS PROPOSED SHEET 1 OF 2
- ELEVATIONS PROPOSED SHEET 2 OF 2
- SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT
- EXTERNAL LIGHTING REPORT
- COVERING LETTER
- HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- STATUTORY BIODIVERSITY METRIC
- HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT DESK-BASED ASSESSMENT
- LANDSCAPE STRATEGY PLAN
- LOCATION PLAN EXISTING
- LVIA APPENDIX A.1
- LVIA APPENDIX A.2
- LVIA APPENDIX B
- LVIA APPENDIX C
- LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (LVIA)
- BLOCK PLAN EXISTING
- BLOCK PLAN PROPOSED
- FIRST FLOOR PROPOSAL
- GROUND FLOOR PROPOSED
- ELEVATIONS PROPOSED - Z BLOCK
- PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL APPRAISAL REPORT
- PHASE 1 AND 2 SITE INVESTIGATION
- LOCATION PLAN - PROPOSED
- STATEMENT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- STATEMENT OF IMPACTS ON FLEAM DYKE SSSI
- SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE STRATEGY
- TRANSPORT STATEMENT
- TREE SURVEY AND CONSTRAINTS PLAN
- UTILITY SERVICES REPORT
- WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN
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