Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

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Form ID: 40054
Respondent: Steeplefield
Agent: Turley

Land between 12 and 14 Station Road Steeple Morden

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Disused orchard

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S/3428/17/OL for twelve houses 40% affordable. Recommended for approval. Refused. Dismissed on appeal. S/1887/18/OL - Outline planning permission for the construction of a rural exception scheme comprising of 8 dwellings (5 affordable and 3 market homes) with all matters reserved except for access – permission granted 24 June 2020

Greenfield. (Predominantly orchard trees at end of life. Designated 'woodland' on Magic due to presence of mature and semi-mature Ash trees.)

Erection of up to 8 dwellings with new vehicle access and retention and enhancement of boundary planting along road frontage.

Market and affordable housing

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Eight residential units.

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The site adjoins the highway. The provision of a vehicular access onto the site was submitted and approved by Cambridgeshire County Council as shown on drawing Steeple04 (file SteepleM Steeple04.pdf).

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Site is adjacent to - but not within - a Conservation Area. Site is adjacent to a listed building. Trees. Application S/3428/17/OL included a comprehensive set of reports and studies in relation to constraints. There were no technical objections from specialist consultees. The scheme of twelve houses was recommended for approval. The Planning Design and Access Statement is attached. Other reports and surveys are held by SCDC and accessible via the planning portal. The development of eight houses (as opposed to twelve) would enable further mitigation of effects including retention of trees and streetscape.

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Surface water drainage to be attenuated and managed on-site. The strategy was agreed with Cambridgeshire County Council for a scheme of twelve houses (County letter ref. FR/17-000529 dated 13/12/2017). A scheme for eight houses would reduce the volume of impermeable surfaces and the volume of rain water to be attenuated and infiltrated to the aquifer.

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The site is in the ownership of the proposer to the 'Call for Sites' and has no impediments to development other than planning legislation.

Site owned by a developer

Site is in the ownership of a company which has the sole purpose of achieving a sensitive development of the site. Prior to 25th March 2019 the site has not been marketed. Expressions of interest have been received. An acceptable offer to purchase subject to planning approval is under negotiation (as at 25th March, 2019).

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