Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020
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New searchLand at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road, Cambridge
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Student accomodation and day nursery
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Developed
Proposed redevelopment for new student accommodation or potential educational uses.
Ability of accommodating further student accommodation and or educational uses on the site. In such a location, demand for student accommodation remains strong and with the building constructed back in 1972 the College is looking to create new accommodation fit for the 21st century.
In the event that student accommodation comes forward as an option, the site could accommodate c. 400 units.
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There is an existing site access onto Clarkson Road which is perfectly adequate for the lawful uses on site which includes a nursery and student accommodation. The characteristics of such uses in terms of attracting vehicular traffic are different to other land uses
The site clearly has access to key facilities given it was constructed for student accommodation including a library and catering facilities. In the instance where any redevelopment would come forward for an expansion of the existing student or educational use, it may be the case that existing facilities may need upgrading but certainly it is envisaged that such (if required) upgrading should not prevent any intensification of use on the site.
The site is available now for development given that the College is the freehold owner and that current uses are capable of early termination in the event that he site is considered appropriate for redevelopment.
High, for student accommodation and or educational uses
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Windfall site/2021
2023
2
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Vacant greenfield land
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Greenfield
Residential Development for approximately 5 -10 dwellings.
The site represents a sustainable location for residential development for market/affordable or College use.
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Site falls within designated Conservation Area but as such is not necessarily a constraint to development
Although there are no utilities currently at the site, these can be secured at a later stage.
The site represents a sustainable location for residential development for market/affordable or College use. There are a number of employment facilities both to the north and east of the site along Huntingdon Road and Grange Road, to the west of the site in West Cambridge and further into Cambridge City Centre. All of these employment opportunities are within walking and cycling distance of the site. Regular bus services run along Grange Road and Madingley Road to the south of the site into central Cambridge every 10 minutes and where there exists a large number of services and facilities.
The site lies within the West Cambridge Conservation Area
2023
2024
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Residential
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Greenfield.
Proposed new housing (market and affordable) or possibly new student accomodation.
Addressing local housing needs including the demand for student accommodation.
Having regard to site character and size of site we are suggesting that the site has the potential to accommodate at least 25 new dwellings. The College has also suggested that he site could come forward as an alternative for new student rooms and in this context could accommodate say 50 new rooms and communal areas at this initial stage of investigation.
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The site possesses an existing access on to Madingley Road. There are two means of vehicular access to the site from Madingley Road, which is adopted public highway. The western-most access would be appropriate to serve as a vehicular access to the redevelopment, subject to potential slight widening (depending on vehicle tracking) that could be undertaken within the site. This widening would be so that a vehicle entering the site can wait at the site access clear of Madingley Road (including the footway) whilst a vehicle exits the site, and without the need to reverse onto Madingley Road. Some clearance of vegetation may be required to improve intervisibility to / from the site access, but it appears that the required visibility splay of at least 2.4m x 43m is available. The eastern-most access would not be appropriate to serve as a vehicular access to the redevelopment because of the vicinity to the signalised junction with Grange Road - although an existing access, it appears to have a low level of use. Vehicles wanting to turn right into the site (travelling from Madingley Road East) would need to give-way to eastbound traffic and in doing so are likely to block westbound traffic. The resulting queue would quickly extend back through the Madingley Road / Grange Road junction. Vehicles approaching the junction on Madingley Road (East) or Grange Road may not anticipate the potential for such queuing traffic if they have a green signal, and therefore may need to brake suddenly. The eastern-most access, however, would be an appropriate pedestrian and cycle access into the site. Closing this access to vehicular traffic would result in a reduction in the number of Madingley Road access points from an existing two accesses to only one access. This is considered a road safety benefit in itself, as there will be one less point of potential conflict between road users on Madingley Road, and even low an existing low level of use, it would remove the right turn safety issue raised above. The comments above are based on either a residential development in the order of 25 dwellings, or student accommodation in the order of 50 student rooms. Increasing these scales of development may invite further considerations about highway safety and the capacity of using the western-most access, and which would therefore need some further technical assessment. However for the purposes of this initial assessment of the site , we consider that the westernmost access following widening an improvement will allow further potential redevelopment opportunities for the site
Site is within Conservation Area with trees subject to protection. Building in NE corner is listed.
The site lies within the defined urban area of Cambridge and is a site which already contains 4 large residential properties and which possesses the normal access to the relevant utilities. On the basis that this site is surrounded by a substantial amount of development and all connected into the utilities it follows that there are no insurmountable issues that would prevent this site coming forward for development.
High placed on the market.
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2021
2021
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Greenfield
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No relevant planning history
Greenfield
Residential development of approximately 100 dwellings with a residential marina.
The site presents as a logical place for new development, having regard to its location on the edge of Cambridge and in a location with development on both sides.
100 dwellings with a residential marina
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Vehicular access into and from the site would be sought from Fen Road, as shown on the accompanying Site Layout Plan.
There are no heritage assets on or in proximity to the site, although it is noted that the Fen Ditton Conservation Area runs along the River Cam to the south of the site. Clearly any new development would need to acknowledge this issue. There are no ecological or landscape designations on or in proximity to the site. The site does lie within Flood Zone 2, to the north of the site and Flood Zone 3 to the south of the site as it meets the River Cam. The site’s boundary is surrounded by tree and hedgerow although there are no trees scattered within the site.
Although the site does not currently have access to key utilities, these can be secured at a later stage, should the site be allocated and a planning application come forward. There are no known key utilities crossing the site.
High The site lies in a highly sustainable location on the edge of Cambridge in close proximity to both Cambridge North railway station, 0.95km walk from the site, which provides a regular service to London, Kings Lynn and Ely as well as the Guided Busway which provides a number of regular services to Huntingdon, St Ives and across Cambridge, 0.65km from the site. The site presents as a logical place for new development, having regard to its location on the edge of Cambridge and in a location with development on both sides.
None known.
In terms of policy, within the recently adopted Cambridge Local Plan (2018), the western part of the site (which falls within the administrative boundary of Cambridge City Council) is allocated under policy 54: Residential Moorings, allocation RM1 The site was also previously allocated in the 2006 Cambridge Local Plan for use as residential moorings. The extent of the allocation comprises 0.98 hectares.. Within the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018) the eastern part of the site is allocated for residential moorings within the Special Policy Area policy H7. This part of the site is also subject to a Green Belt designation. Both policies support the development of a marina at the site.
2023
2025
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Agricultural and current playing field
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There is no recent planning history that is relevant in the context of the Grange Farm site other than confirming that the College has continued to promote the site in the last two reviews of the Cambridge Local Plan (2006 and 2018) and will seek to promote through the current review of a single Local Plan for both Councils.
Greenfield
The Grange Farm site provides the opportunity to secure some 750 dwellings including affordable housing together with all necessary open space, landscape, infrastructure etc
Address acute housing need for market and affordable housing in a highly sustainable location close to Cambridge centre.
c. 750 dwellings
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The main vehicular access to the Site is proposed from Clerk Maxwell Road, with an appropriate crossing of the West Cambridge to Coton cycle path.
Site is greenfield so will need to be served by new facilities/utilities
Site is in single ownership
High
No
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2023/2024
2030/2031
7/8 years assuming two housebuilders
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Vacant greenfield land
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The site was promoted in the previous Call for Sites Consultation in 2011 for the most recently adopted Cambridge Local Plan (2018) where representations were put forward by the College questioning the logic of the inclusion of this area within Green Belt designation and suggesting that on the basis that the land was excluded from such designation, then it provides a real opportunity to secure new housing in a highly sustainable location.
Greenfield
Residential Development for up to 5 dwellings.
Much needed new market housing (including affordable housing) in this sustainable location in a well-established location within the city, which has good public transport and cycling links into Cambridge City Centre.
5 Dwellings
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The topography of the site is flat.
The site lies within the Green Belt but is not subject to any other policy designations. The site is wholly located in Flood Zone 1; the least risk of flooding and where development should be directed. To the north of the site lies the Grade II Listed ‘Emmanuel College Sports Pavilion, including Groundsman’s House and Stable’, therefore any development coming forward on the site would look to preserve and enhance the heritage asset’s significance and siting. There are no ecological designations on or in proximity to the site. There is no known contamination at the site.
Although there are no utilities currently at the site, these can be secured at a later stage
High
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2023
2024
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Existing office space set within Innovation Park
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The Park has devoloped over the past 30-40 years and most recently has seen the construction of the Maurice Wilkes building in the southern end of the Park.
Previously developed
Significnat new job growth in a modern office environment .
short term - demotion of some buildings and some 20, 000 sqm of new net floorspace long term - a further 15,000 sqm of new net floorspace
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The St Johns Innovation Park is a key employment site in that area now known as North East Cambridge (NEC) and it is the case that the College and its advisors have played an important and significant role in the various workshops that have taken place this year in respect of the future development of the Park and in the wider context of the NEC. A concept masterplan has been put forward by the College’s project team and has been considered in the context of the NEC Workshops and indeed is the subject of a pre-application enquiry which is currently with SCDC. It is the case that the site has currently two main existing vehicular accesses serving most of the Park with a direct access off Cowley Road for the Jeffreys Building. A number of pedestrian and cycleway access points exist around the site , the most recent of which has been constructed to access the Maurice Wilkes Building. In respect of the implications of new development , in the context whereby no new parking is coming forward then it is entirely appropriate that no changes are needed to the access points. However in view of the longer term proposals for the whole of the Park having regard to intensification of use, meaning the demolition of buildings and the erection of new buildings, then the College intend to re-assess access points to ensure that there is consistency and compatibility with NEC proposals for the wider area.
As an established employment site, the site has existing access to all the necessary utilities. Clearly as with any development coming forward within the NEC area, within which the Innovation Park sits, provision will need to be made for the upgrading of services commensurate with projected levels of growth. In terms of the crossing of the site by utilities, we are unaware of any constraints imposed by any utilities that would prevent development coming forward. Overhead pylons are evident on the southern fringe of the Park but these in any case cross over open land south and west of the Maurice Wilkes building.
2023
2040
15-20
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Land at Whitefields, Hinton Way, Great Shelford
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Greenfield
There was a dilapidated dwelling located within the site, known as Whitefields, which is to be demolished this year due to health and safety concerns with regards to trespassing (LPA Ref: S/2921/18/PN).
The site has been the subject of a number of planning applications including a golf course club house (LPA Ref: S/2257/01/F) and a hotel (LPA Ref: S/1633/96/O, S/0778/97/RM, S/1883/99/O).
Previously Developed.
There is the potential for market and affordable housing as well as options that should consider specific proposals relating to other parts of the housing market sector which could include care homes and/or retirement village .
Housing. Retirement village
In May 2015 the College submitted the enclosed document to SCDC as part of a pre-application enquiry following the acknowledgement that the site was the subject of an extant consent for a major hotel development and golf course at that time., The consent has since lapsed but reflects the acceptability of principle of development of that site. The enclosed document looks at the promotion of the site for residential development and put forward a low density approach of 6 large dwellings set in spacious grounds and also a higher density approach whereby some 34 dwellings could come forward.
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Direct frontage to Hinton Way, vehicular access to the site can be gained from this road.
The topography of the site is relatively flat
the site containing a number of trees and landscape features as well as the remnants of the former large dwellings that was present on the site a number of years ago.
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Does the site have access to key utilities? Will provision need to be made or capacity created or reinforced to enable development (this includes mains water supply, mains sewerage, electricity supply, gas supply and broadband internet)? Is the site crossed or adjacent to a key utility such as a pipeline or by pylons? It is the case that a single large residential property existed on site until it was destroyed by fire and was obviously served by the major utilities at that time . Certainly the granting of the permission for the large hotel and golf course facility would have generated the need for the upgrading of facilities. In the light of the scale of residential development proposed we consider that existing facilities would need to be reinforced to address the new development.
The site is in the freehold ownership of the College and is immediately available for development.
Great Shelford is identified in the recently adopted South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018) as a Rural Centre, which is the highest tier of the settlement hierarchy. The village has a range of services and facilities including the post office, primary school, village shops and employment opportunities. Furthermore, the village has a railway station with regular train services running to Cambridge and London daily offering further employment opportunities and the facilities and services found in Cambridge.
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2023
2030 but dependant on use coming forward
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Agriculture
Greenfield
Residential Development for approximately 20 dwellings.
The site is a logical extension to the village, where there has been little growth over the past plan period
approx. 20 dwellings
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There is an agricultural access from Horningsea Road into the site. This will need to be improved to enable development.
The site is not subject to any other policy, landscape or ecological designations. There are no heritage assets on the site, although there are a number of Grade II Listed Buildings located along the High Street to the north of the site. The site lies entirely within Flood Zone 1; the least risk of flooding and where development should be directed.
At present the site does not have access to key utilities, but it is envisaged that due to its location key utilities could be sought for the site.
The site is a logical extension to the village, where there has been little growth over the past plan period. The village contains a number of services and facilities including public house, place of worship, employment facilities and public open space. Although there is no primary school within the village, Fen Ditton Community Primary School is located 1.57km from the southern boundary of the site and is easily accessed. There is a footpath and cycleway linking the village to the Primary School so this can be accessed using sustainable methods of transport. There is also a regular bus service from the High Street, approximately 300m from the north west of the site.
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2023
2025
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Agriculture
Greenfield
Residential Development for approximately 30 dwellings.
30 dwellings provided for an area much in need of new market housing (including affordable housing).
Residential Development for approximately 30 dwellings.
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Granham’s Road runs parallel to the east of the site, this is where access will be sought.
There are no ecological designations or heritage assets within the site, however, there are two Grade II Listed cottages directly east of the site opposite fronting Granham’s Road. The site lies entirely within Flood Zone 1; the least risk of flooding and where development should be directed. There are no known contamination risks at the site.
There are no key utilities at the site, these can be secured at a later stage.
Area much in need of new market housing (including affordable housing). There are a range of services and facilities within walking and cycling distance of the site including the post office, primary school, village shops and employment opportunities. Furthermore, Shelford Railway Station lies around 1km from the site. Regular train services run to Cambridge and London from the Station daily offering further employment opportunities and the facilities and services found in Cambridge. There are bus stops within Great Shelford, along High Green, which provide a regular bus service into Great Shelford and Cambridge. The site therefore provides a sustainable location where policy compliant affordable housing can be met.
There are no known legal/land ownership constraints on the site. The site lies within the Green Belt and is subject to a Countryside Enhancement Strategy within the Adopted Local Plan 2018 which cross references to Policy CSF/5 within the Southern Fringe Area Action Plan.
2023
2024
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