Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020
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The site falls within the area that is currently the subject of an outline planning application ref: S/3440/18/OL for a new mixed use village comprising approx. 3,500 dwellings, at Bourn Airfield.
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Proposed extension to the new mixed use village at Bourn Airfield to provide additional flexibility to the detailed design, layout and range of uses in the north eastern entrance, including the new expressway, in order to create a high quality attractive gateway into the village. The extended development area not only would provide a less constrained area for development than is currently defined by the Local Plan defined Major Development Site (MDS), but will also provide the opportunity to exercise best practice in master planning and placemaking, without the threat of coalescence with Caldecote/Highfields.
The current extent of the defined Major Development Site as shown on the adopted Policies Map Inset I was drawn on an arbitrary basis without any consideration to a design-led approach including master planning, layout, urban design and overall place-making principles. Policy SS/7 requires such a design-led approach to deliver the new village to a high standard of design and as an example of excellence in sustainable development. The existing MDS boundary in the north east entrance to the site creates a major constraint and unnecessary burden to achieve these policy and high quality place-making objectives. The submitted extension to the designated MDS will not only improve the scope to design a high quality gateway into the new village, but it will also provide a substantial green buffer to separate the new development from Caldecote/Highfields. This buffer could include new footpaths and a cycleway to connect the existing Caldecote/Highfields community with the new facilities, including the expressway, that will be provided as part of the comprehensive Bourn Airfield development.
Depending on the final range of uses, the area could accommodate up to 85 dwellings.
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The current outline planning application for the new village at Bourn Airfield provides details (that are not reserved) of the principal eastern access into the site from the roundabout on St Neots Road, including the first section of the strategic public transport route. The necessary land required to provide these two means of access within the defined MDS leaves very little space for built development. This would result in a narrow band/ribbon for buildings adjacent to the transport routes that is insufficient to create a high quality and appropriate gateway into the new village. To increase the area to sufficient size and proportions to provide a high quality designed gateway.
The current outline planning application and supporting documents demonstrate that there are no constraints to the provision of key utilities to serve the new village. The proposed development of the new village at Bourn Airfield will provide the full range of key utilities to serve the scheme with sufficient additional capacity to allow for a greater amount of development than that currently planned in the outline planning application.
There are no physical or technical constraints to deliver development in the short term, as set out in the Bourn Airfield planning application. The whole of the application site is in single family ownership.
Market attractiveness would be high because of the urgent need for new homes in South Cambridgeshire, the proximity of the site to the City and key centres of employment and the proposed new strategic public transport route/expressway.
No, the site is in single family ownership.
The site is currently allocated in Policy SS/7 of the adopted South Cambridgeshire Local Plan.
2021
2041-2045
20-24
