Question 2. Please submit any sites for employment and housing you wish to suggest for allocation in the Local Plan. Provide as much information and supporting evidence as possible.
Vacant and unused land
The site comprises vacant and unused land. The pitches were removed from the 'outdoor sport' category in the updated 2014 Services and Facilities Study and they are not included within the 2016 Greater Cambridge Playing Pitch Strategy 2015-2031.
No planning applications have been submitted on the site. The site has not previously been submitted as part of SCDCs Call for Sites process undertaken in 2011. Permission was granted at Committee on 7 March 2018 (ref: S/3481/17/FUL) for the demolition of the existing Fulbourn social club and the construction of a 72-bedroom care home on land adjacent to the site, adjacent to the site to the west.
The site comprises mostly greenfield land with some brownfield land in the north western corner of the site including two buildings ('The Yews' and 'The Firs').
R&D and business support services
It is considered that the development proposals could deliver numerous tangible social, economic and environmental benefits to the local area, including: - The opportunity to deliver affordable housing to help meet the needs of Cambridge and Fulbourn; - A landowner who wishes to work the community in order to shape a proposal which meets the needs of and can provider wider benefits to Cambridge, as was achieved in the Fulbourn Care Home scheme adjacent to the site; - Improving the accessibility to the site by providing open space, play and recreation space tat is accessible to residents throughout the village; - Redeveloping part of the site which is brownfield land and therefore in accordance with the councils' sustainability agenda; and - The potential to provide specialist housing such as elderly care accommodation.
The site could accommodate a landscape design-led residential development of approximately 150 residential units, subject to further design work. This would include 40% affordable housing subject to viability, landscaping, vehicular access and formal and informal open space, taking into account the trees around the boundary of the site. The site could also accommodate specialist housing including elderly accommodation or student housing. Alternatively, the site could accommodate a range of potential employment uses including offices, a hotel, or employment floorspace ranging from uses B1, B1b, B1c, Ba or B8.
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The site access is to be taken off a private road along the northern boundary of the site which is indicated on the red line boundary plan.
The site is relatively flat, comprising an unused field with trees along its boundaries. There are no other significant physical constraints on the site such as tree protection orders or public rights of way.
The site is entirely within Flood Zone 1, in a low risk flood area making the site sequentially preferable to land which feature higher risk flood zone areas. The site is within Fulbourn Conservation Area. There are no listed buildings on or near to the site. The site is not protected as Local Green Space (policy NH/12) or as a Protected Village Amenity Area (policy NH/11). The site is within the Green Belt, but is well screened by an existing tree belt along the southern and eastern boundaries. There is a consented scheme adjacent to the site for a care home.
The site has access to nearby utility connections that would nee to be reinforced.
Site is available
The applicant is supported by a professional team including residential development agents who are confident of the site's market attractiveness. It is considered that there is strong market interest in either a residential or commercial development on the site.
Single ownership
N/A
2023
2025
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