Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020
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New searchMix of horticultural/nursery, hardstanding, grassland and woodland.
Horticultural - end of use not known
Pre-application: PRE/0025/19
Mixture
Residential development of up to 50 dwellings with associated landscaping and access from Priest Lane. Land to the south of the frontage site is also within the control of Southern & Regional Developments and has been identified on a separate plan for wider consideration. However the focus of the promotion at this time is in respect of the frontage area that is previously developed land. 2025: Development of 100 - 125 residential dwellings.
Delivery of housing within an area of significant demand, therefore contributing valuable numbers towards the identified need within South Cambridgeshire, but also to local needs within Willingham. 2025: BNG
Approximately 50 - 54 units have been shown on a masterplan of the frontage site, copy enclosed. 2025: 100 - 125 residential units
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Provision of new highway access will be provided to the site to ensure adequate vehicular flows into and out of the site following subsequent development of the site for residential purposes. The 30mph speed restriction along Priest Lane will be extended east across the site frontage through a TRO.
The site is level
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The site has access to key utilities
Utilities are available from Priest Lane and water supply / electricity are on site already. It is not known if there is direct connection to mains fould sewer, but site is settlement edge and therefore provision will be close by.
Southern and Regional are in a position to bring the site forward through an Option agreement with the landowners subject to outline planning approval being issued.
Willingham is a large, popular village within commuting distance from Cambridge, one of the fastest economically developing cities in the UK and therefore there is continuing demand for housing within Greater Cambridge to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding economy.
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Peripheral trees and hedgerows would be retained. No other constraints exist.
"A Local Plan must demonstrate that it has discharged its statutory Duty to Co-Operate with neighbouring authorities and other relevant organisations to ensure that it is sound. Without due consideration of crossboundary issues, including housing requirements and economic functions, a Plan will not have demonstrated its requirements as contained within the Duty to Co-Operate. Although the Greater Cambridge Local Plan is at an early stage of its preparation, it is vital that is able to demonstrate that it has engaged and taken into appropriate consideration cross-boundary issues. These issues will influence the strategies of the new Plan, including the approach in achieving residential and other types of development across the Local Plan area. Those issues which have been identified within the Issues and Options document address significant considerations which will inform the trajectory of the Plan during the preparation process. It is considered that those areas of concern relating to cross-boundary factors are appropriate. However, engagement with housing need and the cross-boundary influences that impact on this need should be strongly considered as a central component of the spatial strategy prepared as part of the new Greater Cambridge Local Plan. Although it is recognised that the Cambridge HMA is relatively self-contained, with a travel to work area similar in size and pattern to the housing market area itself, this should not result in a Plan which reduces the significance in cross-boundary impacts on the ability of the Planning Authorities in delivering their housing needs. For instance, given that the neighbouring authorities are generally unconstrained, with no Green Belt, it is likely that they will be able to meet their own needs within their own jurisdiction. As such, there may be lesser need for Greater Cambridge to assist in accommodating cross-boundary housing numbers. However, it is considered that the emerging Local Plan must take into account the impacts that a rapidly growing local economy will have on these cross-boundary issues. This includes the result of strategic infrastructure projects, such as East-West Rail and the Oxford-Cambridge Expressway which will open the housing market up further to additional influxes of people commuting to the expanding job market within Cambridge. This in turn will have a material impact on strategic residential need as a result of increasing demand and exacerbate housing costs. A careful approach to cross-boundary considerations is therefore required, to ensure that the new Plan remains responsive to these issues given that they arise from outside the Local Plan area and are beyond the control of the Local Authorities. Summary of Comments: The list of cross-boundary considerations is appropriate, however the Local Plan should acknowledge the degree of importance and signifiance to each."
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