Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020
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New searchLand at Pitt Dene Farm, Elsworth. X:530484, Y:264988
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Agriculture
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Greenfield
The site is capable of providing land for a strategic residential-led, mixed-use development incorporating an appropriate mix of supporting uses, such as community and social infrastructure, to assist in delivering the future development needs of the District.
Development of the site could make a significant contribution to future development needs for market and affordable housing in the District. Development could provide for specialist need housing, such as age restricted or elderly care. Social and community infrastructure provided with a strategic development would be available for use by the wider local community and benefit the local area. This could include sports facilities, community facilities, school, healthcare, public open space. A strategic scale development of this nature would also be able to provide enhancements to public transport and connectivity for the benefit of the wider community.
Any proposed development would be subject to masterplan evolution through close engagement with the District Council, local community and stakeholders to ensure that development proposals respond to specific needs and growth requirements and ambitions of the District.
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The site has several direct access points and frontage to Meadow Drift, Conington Road and direct access to Rogues Lane.
The site has a varied and gently undulating topography. The site has the ability to accommodate land forming and land level changes within the site are not considered to constrain development of the site
Development of the scale proposed would require associated utilities infrastructure to be provided
The promoter of the site is the freehold owner and there are no third party leases or other restrictions on the land being available now
The focus of Allocation in the Combined Authority region is understandably now concerned with allocating sites around Cambridge and building on activity in and around Huntingdon and at St Ives, where land is proposed for Allocation within the northern arc of the ring road. This concentration of sites will take advantages of existing areas of growth, but this emphasis also lacks diversity and suggests an agglomeration in specific areas. As an alternative, we believe that housebuilders will welcome sites not coalesced together and this site will offer an opportunity to build a varied housing stock in a sub-regional setting. The site has the potential to deliver a New Garden Town, being in one ownership and thus there is a fair prospect of A New Garden Town being deliverable if Allocated. The intention should be, if Allocated, that the site will provide enough land to meet housing needs across an extended timescale of approx. 20 years. The extent of the holding is of a size where placemaking will be a key component. Housebuilders actively seek sites of this size where the scale permits the development of a community over time and where a new settlement starts to be built that can develop into a new town. As happened with Milton Keynes, the existing villages will require sensitive incorporation into the New Garden Town and major PLC housebuilders have the resources and experience to do this. 2. It is recognised that a development of this scale would need to make significant contributions towards infrastructure delivery to enhance off site infrastructure, primarily highways, but not limited exclusively to this. A residential development of some size will be required to ensure both deliverability and viability and there will be a need for support facilities, such as Policy compliant levels of Affordable dwellings and dwellings to house rural workers and a site of this size will be more than capable of delivering these facilities. 3. There are no specific planning designations in relation to the Site within the adopted SCDC Local Plan (2018). The site falls outside of any defined settlement, known as the ‘Development Framework’ under Policy S/7 of the adopted Local Plan. This policy resists development outside of the Development Framework area, save for allocations within Neighbourhood Plans and other uses suitable for countryside locations. Notwithstanding this, the preparation of a new Local Plan will require the consideration of future development needs for the District and the Greater Cambridge area, and the allocation of available land to meet this need, which may include land outside of defined settlement boundaries. Hence, we contend that the priority for growth in jobs and housing in the region suggests to us that a spread of sites should be considered for Allocation and that there is in the hierarchy of housing development and clear desire to see sites in regional centres, but also that there is a place for more rural settlements to provide for much needed housing, too. The smaller parcel of approx. 30 Hectares comprising two agricultural fields abutting the northern edge of the settlement of Elsworth 1. This parcel, If Allocated, will allow for a modest extension over time to the village of Elsworth. We suggest that initially, the first phase be modest and the Local Authority working with the community decide when it is appropriate to provide any further extension, most like in the latter stages of the Plan period. Thereby, not introducing too much additional housing stock into an existing village setting all at one time. 2. An extension limited in size and in timing to a village should satisfy interest from local house builders, who struggle to find sites and often suffer at the hands of more competitive PLC housebuilders. Not only could there be a policy to favour a local builder, but it might be welcomed by the community if there is a brief to encourage self-build at site. Typically, the injection of a limited number of new build dwellings offers an opportunity for localised community benefits and we should expect this to be one of the planning considerations 3. Given the aging population across the UK, we recommend that the site also be explored for assisted or Senior Living. Not only will this fill a housing need but will also provide local employment of full or part time basis which could be met in whole or part by local residents and thereby reduce commuting to work traffic.
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Subject to Local Plan Process
Subject to Local Plan Process
c.8-10 years
N/A
Land at Pitt Dene Farm, Meadow Drift, Elsworth. X:531408, Y:264083
30
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Agriculture
N/A
N/A
Greenfield
The site is capable of providing land for a residential-led development incorporating an appropriate mix of supporting uses, such as community and social infrastructure, to assist in delivering the future development needs of the District.
Development of the site could provide additional market and affordable housing to assist in meeting the District's future housing need. Development could provide for specialist need housing, such as age restricted or elderly care. Social and community infrastructure provided with a strategic development would be available for use by the wider local community and benefit the local area. This could include sports facilities, community facilities, school, healthcare, public open space. A strategic scale development of this nature would also be able to provide enhancements to public transport and connectivity for the benefit of the wider community.
Any proposed development would be subject to masterplan evolution through close engagement with the District Council, local community and stakeholders to ensure that development proposals respond to specific needs and growth requirements and ambitions of the District.
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The site has direct access and frontage to Meadow Drift
The site has a gentle slope from approximately 35m AOD to 20m AOD from north west to south east across a distance of approximately 600m. The site has the ability to accommodate land forming and the level change is not considered to constrain development of the site.
Development of the scale proposed would require associated utilities infrastructure to be provided.
The promoter of the site is the freehold owner and there are no third party leases or other restrictions on the land being available now.
1. The focus of Allocation in the Combined Authority region is understandably now concerned with allocating sites around Cambridge and building on activity in and around Huntingdon and at St Ives, where land is proposed for Allocation within the northern arc of the ring road. This concentration of sites will take advantages of existing areas of growth, but this emphasis also lacks diversity and suggests an agglomeration in specific areas. As an alternative, we believe that housebuilders will welcome sites not coalesced together and this site will offer an opportunity to build a varied housing stock in a sub-regional setting. The site has the potential to deliver a New Garden Town, being in one ownership and thus there is a fair prospect of A New Garden Town being deliverable if Allocated. The intention should be, if Allocated, that the site will provide enough land to meet housing needs across an extended timescale of approx. 20 years. The extent of the holding is of a size where placemaking will be a key component. Housebuilders actively seek sites of this size where the scale permits the development of a community over time and where a new settlement starts to be built that can develop into a new town. As happened with Milton Keynes, the existing villages will require sensitive incorporation into the New Garden Town and major PLC housebuilders have the resources and experience to do this. 2. It is recognised that a development of this scale would need to make significant contributions towards infrastructure delivery to enhance off site infrastructure, primarily highways, but not limited exclusively to this. A residential development of some size will be required to ensure both deliverability and viability and there will be a need for support facilities, such as Policy compliant levels of Affordable dwellings and dwellings to house rural workers and a site of this size will be more than capable of delivering these facilities. 3. There are no specific planning designations in relation to the Site within the adopted SCDC Local Plan (2018). The site falls outside of any defined settlement, known as the ‘Development Framework’ under Policy S/7 of the adopted Local Plan. This policy resists development outside of the Development Framework area, save for allocations within Neighbourhood Plans and other uses suitable for countryside locations. Notwithstanding this, the preparation of a new Local Plan will require the consideration of future development needs for the District and the Greater Cambridge area, and the allocation of available land to meet this need, which may include land outside of defined settlement boundaries. Hence, we contend that the priority for growth in jobs and housing in the region suggests to us that a spread of sites should be considered for Allocation and that there is in the hierarchy of housing development and clear desire to see sites in regional centres, but also that there is a place for more rural settlements to provide for much needed housing, too. The smaller parcel of approx. 30 Hectares comprising two agricultural fields abutting the northern edge of the settlement of Elsworth 1. This parcel, If Allocated, will allow for a modest extension over time to the village of Elsworth. We suggest that initially, the first phase be modest and the Local Authority working with the community decide when it is appropriate to provide any further extension, most like in the latter stages of the Plan period. Thereby, not introducing too much additional housing stock into an existing village setting all at one time. 2. An extension limited in size and in timing to a village should satisfy interest from local house builders, who struggle to find sites and often suffer at the hands of more competitive PLC housebuilders. Not only could there be a policy to favour a local builder, but it might be welcomed by the community if there is a brief to encourage self-build at site. Typically, the injection of a limited number of new build dwellings offers an opportunity for localised community benefits and we should expect this to be one of the planning considerations 3. Given the aging population across the UK, we recommend that the site also be explored for assisted or Senior Living. Not only will this fill a housing need but will also provide local employment of full or part time basis which could be met in whole or part by local residents and thereby reduce commuting to work traffic.
No
N/A
Subject to Local Plan process
subject to Local Plan process
c.5 years
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