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Form ID: 40450
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Merton Farm, Church End, Gamlingay

2.07

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Dwelling with garden, farm buildings and fields.

The house is in use with the farm buildings no longer required to serve the landowners land holding.

- S/3918/17/FL - Land adjacent and to the north of 1 and 1a, Church End, Gamlingay, SG19 3EP - Erection of a single storey office building ( B1(c) use) and associated storage shed - refused only due to the impact on amenity as the access was alongside number 1b and the proposed development would not follow this route - S/1740/05/F - Change of use of barn to Class B1 - approved 04 January 2006 but not implemented - SC/0304/63/ - Erection of general purpose agricultural building - approved 19 July 1963 - S/0493/79/F - Agricultural barn - approved 14 May 1979

Mixture of previously developed land and greenfield

Residential and small business use.

Market and affordable housing , Custom or self build housing , Employment (B1) office

Nothing chosen

The development would provide much needed housing and affordable housing. Development will re-use existing traditional buildings on the road frontage and in the conservation area. In addition the proposal will replace existing substantial modern utilitarian farm buildings visible from the Conservation Area with more appropriate scale high quality buildings, enhancing the setting. Units 1-5 will utilise the existing drive which will provide a footpath on one side. Unit 6 faces towards Church End and provides a visual link with the existing farmhouse. The proposed layout shows a sensitively designed scheme (see attached site location and layout plan, and perspective plan). A landscaped private drive will be provided with footpath and the ability to accommodate offices for Hutchinson Builders, a local builders looking to relocate from Potton which will retain and enable local jobs. New hedgerow will be provided on the northern and eastern boundary which will also provide ecology benefits.

20 dwellings and offices.

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Yes (Please give details)

Existing access from Church End will be used and a new access created. A new private drive will be created.

No

Yes (Please give details)

The site is partially in the Conservation Area and in the setting of Grade II listed buildings. The scheme will re-use the existing brick buildings in the Conservation Area and a sensitively designed layout has been prepared. The scheme will provide public benefits through the provision of a mixture of housing, including affordable housing. There will be economic benefits creating jobs through the construction of the dwellings for the economy. The scheme will also enable a successful building company to relocate from Potton with modern facilities and ensure the retention and creation of jobs. The additional hedgerow planting will provide environmental benefits through additional landscaping and enhance the ecology of the site.

The site has access to key utilities with further capacity created. Further capacity can be created.

Available now

The land can be developed immediately.

Don't know

There is significant demand for a mix of housing within Gamlingay given its services and facilities and accessibility to surrounding towns and villages such as Potton, Sandy, Biggleswade, St Neots, Huntingdon and Cambridge. The scheme will also enable a successful building company to relocate from Potton with modern facilities and ensure the retention and creation of jobs.

No

N/A

2029

2020

1

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 40451
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land off Greenacres, Gamlingay

1.6

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Grazing and temporary open space

N/A

S/0281/16/OL - Land to north east of Fountain Farm, Park Lane, Gamlingay - Permission for a detached dwelling with garage - approved on 17 October 2016

Greenfield

Residential

Market and affordable housing , Custom or self build housing

Nothing chosen

Will provide much needed housing and affordable housing.

48 dwellings (30 dph)

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No

Access is achievable off Greenacres

No

Yes (Please give details)

Part of the site is designated as Local Green Space. The land is of low ecological value and given that public access to the land will shortly cease this land should be removed as a Local Green Space designation. The planning permission granted (LPA ref: S/0281/16/OL) land to north east of Fountain Farm, Park Lane, Gamlingay for a detached dwelling with garage infills the land to the rear (see site location plan).

No

Access to key utilities can be created.

Available now

The land can be developed immediately

Don't know

There is significant demand for a mix of housing within Gamlingay given its services and facilities and accessibility to surrounding towns and villages such as Potton, Sandy, Biggleswade, St Neots, Huntingdon and Cambridge.

No

N/A

2019

2021

2

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 40453
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land at 20 Bourn Road, Caxton

1.75

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Disused vegetable garden land, grassland and existing former agricultural buildings

N/A

S/1227/17/OL - Erection of dwelling with garage and formation of new agricultural access - approved S/4023/18/FL - Replacement dwelling and garage - approved

Disused vegetable garden land and greenfield

Residential

Market and affordable housing , Custom or self build housing

Nothing chosen

The development will provide sensitively designed dwellings with infill plots to the west of the Telephone Exchange, on the existing site of number 30 Bourn Road which is being replaced and moved further east, and a dwelling further east of planning permission S/4023/18/FL which will retain the linear pattern of development on the opposite side of Bourn Road. There will be housing to the rear of 20 Bourn Road within the site and the sensitively designed dwellings will enhance the setting of the village along with providing much needed housing. This will also provide economic benefits through the construction jobs created and from owner/occupiers using local services and facilities.

35 dwellings which equates to 20 dwellings per hectare which is appropriate to the edge of village location

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Yes (Please give details)

There is access off Bourn Road.

Yes (please give details)

The land slopes to the south. Proposed mitigation: Additional hedgerow planting will be provided.

Yes (Please give details)

The site is within the setting of Caxton Conservation Area. Proposed mitigation: Sensitively designed houses.

No

Access to key utilities can be created.

Available now

The land can be developed immediately

Don't know

There is a significant demand for a mix of housing within Caxton given it is well connected to surrounding towns and villages such as Cambourne, Cambridge and Northstowe.

No

N/A

2020

2021

1

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 40462
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land at St Peters Street, Caxton

1

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Agricultural

N/A

N/A

Greenfield

Residential

Market and affordable housing , Custom or self build housing

Nothing chosen

The development will provide sensitively designed dwellings which will enhance the setting of the village along with providing much needed housing. This will also provide economic benefits through the construction jobs created and from owner/occupiers using local services and facilities.

30 dwellings which equates to 21 dwellings per hectare and is appropriate to the edge of village location and setting of the listed buildings

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Yes (Please give details)

There is access off St Peter's Street

No

Yes (Please give details)

The site is within the setting of Grade II * listed Church of St Andrews and Grade II listed building of Church Farmhouse Proposed mitigation: Sensitively designed houses with a landscape buffer

No

Access to key utilities can be created

Available now

The land can be developed immediately

Don't know

There is a significant demand for a mix of housing within Caxton given it is well connected to surrounding towns and villages such as Cambourne, Cambridge and Northstowe.

No

N/A

2020

2023

3

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 40519
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land adjacent Green Acres, Gamlingay

4.6

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Agricultural

N/A

None

Greenfield

Resdiential

Market and affordable housing , Custom or self build housing

Nothing chosen

Will provide much needed housing and affordable housing

Up to 138 dwellings (30 dph)

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No

Access to the site will be off Green Acres

Yes (please give details)

Site slopes up from east to west with existing trees/ hedgerow on the boundaries Additional hedgerow planting.

No

The land is of low ecological value

No

Access to key utilities can be created.

Available now

The land can be developed immediately

Don't know

There is significant demand for a mix of housing within Gamlingay given its services and facilities and accessibility to surrounding towns and villages such as Potton, Sandy, Biggleswade, St Neots, Huntingdon and Cambridge.

No

N/A

2020

2022

2

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 40543
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land off St Peters Street Caxton

1

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Agricultural

N/A

N/A

Greenfield

Residential

Market and affordable housing , Key worker housing , Older persons housing , Residential care home , Student accommodation , Custom or self build housing , Employment (B1) office , Employment (B1b) research and development , Employment (B1c) light industrial , Employment (B8) storage and distribution , Employment (other)

Public open space

The site is able to provide market housing along with affordable housing/ self build housing as required. The land owners are also open to discussion on other forms of development

30 units

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Yes (Please give details)

Access available from St Peters Street and/or Rosemary Greene Close.

No

Yes (Please give details)

Site is greenfield with no known contamination issues and is located in flood zone 1. The site is in relative proximity to the grade II* listed Caxton Hall but is significantly divorced from and screened by tree and hedgerow belts. The site has no known Biodiversity issues and is considered to be able to provide an enhancement in biodiversity as part of any future development. A suitable design solution would ensure minimal impact upon Caxton Hall.

The site is readily serviceable by key utilities.

Available now

The site is greenfield and available now.

Enquiries received

Given the paucity of available development sites in Caxton, the site is attractive to the market for residential development.

None

N/A

2022

2023

1

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 40544
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land at Potton Road, Gamlingay

1.5

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Grazing

N/A

There is significant planning history on the site with planning permission granted on 10 December 2001 (LPA reference: S/2331/00/O) for production workshop buildings and offices. Permission was subsequently renewed on a number of occasions, lastly in March 2006 (LPA reference: S/0059/06/F). Reserved matters approval was subsequently granted on 03 June 2006 (LPA reference: S/0060/06/RM) for the development of 3,240 sq m of industrial buildings with 480 sq m of offices and open storage. The pre-commencement conditions on the 2006 permission were subsequently discharged and the planning permission was initiated in 2008 which provides an extant permission.

Greenfield

B1(a), B1(b), B1(c), B2 & B8 uses

Employment (B1) office , Employment (B1b) research and development , Employment (B1c) light industrial , Employment (B2) general industrial , Employment (B8) storage and distribution

Nothing chosen

The development of the site will create job opportunities to support the local economy in accordance with paragraph 80 of the NPPF 2018 which sets out that planning policies should create the conditions in which businesses can invest, expand and adapt, and significant weight should be placed on the need to support economic growth and productivity.

Unknown

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Yes (Please give details)

Yes (please give details)

The land slopes from north to south. There is substantive hedgerow on the western boundary along with a hedge and bund on the southern boundary.

Yes (Please give details)

There is mains water, cable and foul drainage through onsite sewage treatment

Available now

The land is in my clients ownership and can be developed immediately

Don't know

There is significant demand for commercial development, particularly modern business development, general industrial and storage and distribution

No

There is significant planning history on the site with planning permission granted on 10 December 2001 (LPA reference: S/2331/00/O) for production workshop buildings and offices. Permission was subsequently renewed on a number of occasions, lastly in March 2006 (LPA reference: S/0059/06/F). Reserved matters approval was subsequently granted on 03 June 2006 (LPA reference: S/0060/06/RM) for the development of 3,240 sqm of industrial buildings with 480 sqm of offices and open storage. The pre-commencement conditions on the 2006 permission were subsequently discharged and the planning permission was initiated in 2008 which provides an extant permission.

ASAP

2 Years prior to start

2

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 51606
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land adjacent A1198, Caxton

4

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Agriculture

N/A

N/A

Greenfield

Residential

Market and affordable housing , Older persons housing , Custom or self build housing

Nothing chosen

The development will provide sensitively designed dwellings which will enhance the setting of the village along with providing much needed housing. This will also provide economic benefits through the construction jobs created and from owner/occupiers using local services and facilities.

100 dwellings which equates to 24 dwellings per hectare and is appropriate to the village location.

No answer given

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No

A new access road can be created off the A1198

Yes (please give details)

The land slopes to the south and there are landscaping bunds along the A1198. Strategic landscaping would be added.

Yes (Please give details)

The site is in the setting of Caxton Conservation Area and Grade II listed buildings along Ermine Street. The site can provide sensitively designed houses with a landscape buffer.

Provision can be made for key utilities as part of the development.

No

Provision can be made for key utilities as part of the development.

Available now

The land can be developed immediately.

Don't know

There is a significant demand for a mix of housing within Caxton given it is well connected to surrounding towns and villages such as Cambourne, Cambridge and Northstowe employment which is greatly needed in the district.

No

No

N/A

2020

2023

3 Years

No

N/A

Yes

Form ID: 52991
Respondent: Brown & Co Barfords
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Land south of Bourn Road, Caxton

1

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Agricultural land

N/A

None

Greenfield

Residential

Market and affordable housing , Key worker housing , Older persons housing , Custom or self build housing

Nothing chosen

The development will provide sensitively designed dwellings which will enhance the character of the area along with providing much needed housing. It will also provide economic benefits through the construction jobs created and from owner/occupiers using local services and facilities. There will be environmental benefits through additional landscaping which will create a biodiversity net gain.

25 dwellings which equates to 25 dwellings per hectare which is appropriate to the edge of village location.

No answer given

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Yes (Please give details)

Access will be created along Bourn Road.

Nothing chosen

The land slopes to the south from Bourn Road. Additional landscaping will be provided

Yes (Please give details)

The southern edge of the site along Bourn Brook is in Flood Zone 2. No housing development will be proposed in this area.

No answer given

No

Provision can be made for key utilities. Access to key utilities can be created

Available now

The land can be developed immediately.

Don't know

There is a significant demand for a mix of housing within Caxton given it is well connected to surrounding towns and villages such as Cambourne, Cambridge and Northstowe.

No

No answer given

N/A

2022

2024

2 years

Yes

No answer given

No

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