Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation

Object

Representation ID: 210141

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Parts of the Longstanton Conservation Area lie within the site. There are also 8 grade II listed pillboxes within the site. There are a number of other designated heritage assets nearby including Oakington and Westwick Conservation Areas and their associated listed buildings including the grade I All Saints Church, St Andrews Church and St Michaels Church, both listed at grade II* and several grade II listed buildings.
Any development of this site has the potential to affect these heritage assets and their settings.
There does not appear to be an HIA for this allocation.
It is important that the policy identifies on-site, and nearby heritage assets and any mitigation and enhancement measures required to address any impact. Amend policy accordingly.
We welcome reference to Longstanton Conservation Area in 11d.
Reference should be made to Oakington Conservation Area in 11e.
We welcome reference to All Saints Church in 11f. Reference should also be made to St Andrews Church and St Michaels Church, both listed at grade II*
Reference should also be made to the grade II listed pill boxes on site.
32 Is there a Conservation Management Plan for the site? If so, this should be referenced. If not, we recommend that this should be included as a policy requirement.

Object

Representation ID: 210142

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Whilst there are no designated heritage assets within the new settlement allocation itself there are a number of highly grade assets to the north of the site in the Strategic Enhancement Policy rea. Denny Abey (scheduled monument, and 2 grade I listed buildings and 2 grade II listed building (barn and gate piers). To the south of the site is Waterbeach Conservation Area and its associated listed buildings. There are some listed milestones along the A10.
Any development of this site has the potential to affect these heritage assets and their settings.
There does not appear to be an HIA for this allocation.
It is important that the policy identifies on-site, and nearby heritage assets and any mitigation and enhancement measures required to address any impact. Amend policy accordingly.
3 This Strategic Enhancement Area should refer to Denny Abbey (Scheduled Monument and grade I listed buildings).
6 We broadly welcome criterion 6. 6a should also mention the scheduled monument status of Denny Abbey and listed buildings.
We welcome reference to many of the non-designated heritage assets including Soldiers Hill and the Causeway.
Figure 86 This should also identify heritage assets (much as the other Spatial Frameworks do).
3.3.92 - 93 We welcome these paragraphs.

Object

Representation ID: 210143

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

There are no designated heritage assets within the site but there are some grade II barns to the north of the Grange I the Strategic Enhancement Area to the south of the site allocation. Great Common Farmhouse (also grade II listed) lies to the west of the site. Bourn Village and Hall Conservation Area lies to the south of the site.
Any development of this site has the potential to affect these heritage assets and their settings.
There does not appear to be an HIA for this allocation.
It is important that the policy identifies on-site and nearby heritage assets and any mitigation and enhancement measures required to address any impact. Amend policy accordingly.
We welcome reference to the grade II listed barns at criterion 9.
We recommend that Criterion 9 should also reference Great Common Farmhouse (also grade II listed).
Figure 88 This should also identify nearby heritage assets (much as the other Spatial Frameworks do)

Object

Representation ID: 210144

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The site includes the Grade II* Hinxton Hall, game larder, stables and North Lodge all listed at grade II as well as Hinxton Conservation Area. St Johns Church, the Old Manor House and The Oak House all listed at grade II* as well as numerous GII listed lie within the wider Conservation Area. To the north of the site lies Hinxton Grange and Stables, both listed at grade II.
Any development of this site has the potential to affect these heritage assets and their settings.
We welcome the preparation of an HIA for this site.
We welcome the criterion 10 and 11.
Criterion 10a should be amended as Hinxton Hall lies within the site not to the north of the site (that is Hinxton Grange). Similarly, parts of the Conservation Area lie within the site. Therefore, the wording needs to be amended to more accurately reflect on site and nearby heritage assets.
We welcome the requirement for a Heritage Impact Assessment. We would suggest referring to a ‘…more detailed Heritage Impact Assessment…’ given that an HIA has already been undertaken.
We welcome paragraphs 3.4.17 and 3.4.18.

Object

Representation ID: 210145

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The site includes the grade I listed Church of St Peters and grade II listed Babraham Hall as well as part of Babraham Conservation Area. There are a number of other listed buildings nearby in the village of Babraham.
In addition, there is a series of scheduled monuments on the higher land to the north and north west of the site including a long barrow, bowl barrow at Copley Hill, Wormwood Hill Tumulus, Causewayed enclosure and bowl barrow at Little Tree Hill and Wandlebury Camp a multivallate hillfort, earlier univallate hillfort, Iron Age cemetery and 17th century formal garden remains.
Any development of this site has the potential to affect these heritage assets and their settings.
We welcome the preparation of an HIA for this site.
The Policy states that Babraham Hall is grade II*. However, our records show this is listed at grade II. Please check and amend if necessary.
We broadly welcome criterion 4 – 9 and 11.
Criterion 4 Add reference to the Babraham Conservation Area which covers part of the site.
We welcome the requirement for a Heritage Impact Assessment. We would suggest referring to a ‘…more detailed Heritage Impact Assessment…’ given that an HIA has already been undertaken.
Add in the need to retain The Lodge, as recommended in the HIA.
Criterion 8 Replace ‘or’ with ‘and’ to read ‘Retain or and, where possible, supplement…

Object

Representation ID: 210146

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

There are no designated heritage assets on this site and whilst the Duxford Conservation Area lies to the south-east of the site it is separated from the site by development and a playing field.
We welcome the preparation of the HIA.
We welcome the references to heritage assets and building heights in the policy.

Object

Representation ID: 210147

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

There are no designated heritage assets within the site boundary. However, Sawston Hall a grade II Registered Park and Garden, lies to the south-west of the site.
Development of the site has the potential to impact the significance of this heritage asset through development within its setting.
There does not appear to be an HIA for this site. However, we appreciate that this site is largely built out.
The policy should reference Sawston Hall RPG and the need for landscaping along the southern part of the site.

Object

Representation ID: 210148

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The site contains part of the scheduled monument. The scheduled monument known as ‘Borough Hill’ is a large multivallate (multi- ditched) iron age fort. This is an exceptional pre-historic site, of which there are less than a handful of surviving examples around the country. It is also on our heritage at risk register. We have previously raised concerns about the impact of the development on the significance of the designated asset.
Our primary concern is the impact of the development upon the significance of the scheduled monument through a development within it setting. The closeness, scale and massing of the new development will significantly increase the quantum of the development in the area immediately adjacent to the monument. The setting of the monument will be irrevocably changed, and the significance of the asset will therefore be eroded and diminished. This development would therefore result in harm to this significance.
We recognise that the Spicers site is a brownfield site and that some form of redevelopment of this site would be acceptable in principle. However, development will need to be very sensitive to the monument adhering to the recommendations of the HIA.

We welcome the preparation of the HIA.
Two of the recommendations from the HIA are not reflected in the policy. These are:
1.
Archaeological investigation should be undertaken in areas previously not subject to archaeological works.
2.
Development should be limited to the area previously subject to development to avoid impacts on potentially significant archaeology associated with the monument.
These recommendations should be included in the policy.
It is sometimes beneficial to consider including the monument within the site boundary in order that appropriate mitigation and enhancements for the monument can be secured. We would suggest that this is an instance where such an approach could be useful. At the present time, only part of the monument is included within the site boundary. It is our view therefore that the whole of the scheduled monument should be included in the site allocation area.

Support

Representation ID: 210149

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

Whilst there are no designated heritage assets on site, there is a grade II listed building, the Temple café and restaurant, to the south of the site.
Development of the site has the potential to impact the significance of this heritage asset through development within its setting.
We welcome the preparation of the HIA.
We welcome criterion 1a,1b 1e and 1f.

Support

Representation ID: 210150

Received: 29/01/2026

Respondent: Historic England

We note that the policy for the Babraham Strategic Enhancement Area is within the main policy for Babraham Research Campus, criterion 15.