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What is Public Access?

“Public Access” is an on-line Internet planning service that allows you to view details of planning applications being considered by Cambridge City Council.

You can monitor the progress of an application, submit comments about the application, search a “realtime” list of applications received and decided each week, and view details of historic applications.

The system also allows the public to view a planning mapbase, detailing constraints and planning histories relating to properties.

Limitations

The service is continually developed, and as such improvements will be brought into the public access system over time. The system is not a substitute for land searches, and all information is for reference only, and is not legally binding.

The online planning history contained within the site at present is incomplete and must not be used as a substitute for carrying out a formal ‘Land Charge Search’.

No responsibility will be taken for any errors or omissions in the planning history information obtained from ‘Public Access’.

The City Council is working towards perfecting the historic mapbase data, with a view to 100% accuracy in spatial (mapping) data from 1963 onwards as the end result.

Similarly the information contained within Public Access does not constitute in any way a formal notification of a planning decision, and as such any actions taken as a result of information displayed on the site are undertaken entirely at the viewer’s own risk.

No documents are currently able to be viewed on the site in the form of plans and application forms, although the council is working towards the implementation of this facility in the future.

As such, to view corresponding plans and drawings the user will need to visit either City Homes North/South, Planning Reception, or the Central Library, at the locations detailed elsewhere on this website.

Important
Copyright Notice

Plans, drawing and material submitted to the Council are protected by the Copyright Acts (Section 47, 1988 Act).

You may only use material which is downloaded and/or printed for consultation purposes, to compare current applications with previous schemes and to check whether developments have been completed in accordance with approved plans.

Further copies must not be made without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

Licence Agreement For Access To National And/Or Authority Datasets

Welcome to the website (“PublicAccess website”), which is owned and operated by Cambridge City Council. Set out below are the terms and conditions which, together with any legal notices displayed elsewhere on this PublicAccess website, represent all the terms and conditions on which we will provide you with access to the datasets created by Local Government Information House Limited (the “National Datasets”) and/or the datasets compiled and maintained by Cambridge City Council (the “Authority Datasets”) associated with the use of the National Land and Property Gazetteer and the National Street Gazetteer. Your continued use of this PublicAccess website indicates your acceptance to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, please cease using this PublicAccess website.

The terms and conditions for this licence agreement are as follows:

1. The National and/or Authority datasets are associated with the use of the National Land and Property Gazetteer and the National Street Gazetteer. Information displayed throughout the PublicAccess website is extracted from a copyright work owned by the Local Government Information House Limited and Cambridge City Council.
2. A single screen print of the results of a search of the National and/or Authority datasets is permitted for your own use.
3. You may not extract or re-utilise information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets and/or any copies of such information (whether electronic or in hard copy format) for any commercial or business purpose including but not limited to, trading, building commercial databases, reselling or redistribution of such information.
4. You are not permitted to modify, adapt, arrange, alter, adjust or make any additions to any information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets, nor are you permitted to combine such information with other mapping, data or other information, including for the avoidance of doubt, other such information derived from this Website.
5. Save as permitted by paragraph 2 above, the reproduction, copying, downloading, storage, recording, broadcasting, retransmission, distribution, decompilation, reverse-engineering or disassembly of any part of this PublicAccess website is not permitted without our prior written consent.
6. It is your responsibility to ensure that any information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets is not made available, either in electronic unencrypted form or in hard copy format, to any third party that may attempt to use the map in contravention of these terms and conditions.
7. You must inform us immediately if you become aware of a third party using information derived from the National and/or Authority Datasets in contravention of these terms and conditions or of any infringement of trade marks located on the PublicAccess website.
8. We shall have no liability to any person or organisation in respect of any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from the use of the information contained on this PublicAccess website.
9. We take every reasonable effort to ensure that information contained on this PublicAccess website is as accurate as possible. However, the services featured on this PublicAccess website are provided “as is”, and all warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded. We shall not be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss (whether for loss of profit, loss of business, depletion of goodwill or otherwise), costs, expense or other claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever caused) which arise out of or in connection with your use of the PublicAccess website.