Policy S/AMC/SCL: South of Coldham’s Lane

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This refers to development in its widest sense, including buildings, and streets, spaces and places. It also refers to both redevelopment, including refurbishment, as well as new development.

proposals within this policy area, divided into three separate parcels of land, will be supported if they:
  a.    In the area to the north-east: create a positive, balanced and attractive environment, to support the vitality and viability of the area for a range of employment uses with ancillary retail and other facilities along with car and cycle parking;
  b.    In the area to the north: provide outdoor recreational uses and ecological enhancements via creation of Open Mosaic Habitat, or equivalent to deliver significant

The variety of life in all its forms. This includes the plant and animal species that make up our wildlife and the habitats in which they live.

Net Gain. Include safeguarded land for the long-term provision of a pedestrian and cycle link between Coldham’s Lane and The Tins via a S106 planning obligation; and
  c.    In the area to the south-west: deliver a new urban country park through enabling public access. Future details of landscape management, maintenance and funding of the proposed urban country park are to be agreed via S106 planning obligations.

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This refers to development in its widest sense, including buildings, and streets, spaces and places. It also refers to both redevelopment, including refurbishment, as well as new development.

proposals will also need to demonstrate how they will meet the following requirements:
  a.    The implementation of a comprehensive delivery plan to implement the vision for the area. A masterplan for the area must be submitted for approval by the Local Planning Authority, which must set out the principal uses, quantum of development and extent of developable land, approach to the built form, circulation and movement, public access and landscape improvements, the form and nature of public access, and future management and sustainable funding arrangements for the urban country park. Subsequent planning applications must support the delivery of the masterplan’s vision;
  b.    Deliver appropriate ecological enhancement, responding to existing sites of local nature conservation importance within and surrounding the site;
  c.    They are appropriate to the historic environment including specific assets and their setting. implementing design-based mitigation, appropriate massing, and ensuring building heights are no taller than 6 storeys to ensure there aren’t negative impacts on the setting of designated heritage assets. A

A Heritage Impact Assessment is a tool used to evaluate how a proposed development may impact heritage assets.

should be completed to support this approach;
  d.    They are appropriate to site conditions and the environmental and safety constraints of this area, including the contaminated condition of the closed landfill sites, Cambridge Airport to the north, related height and use restrictions within the Air Safety Zone and Air Safeguarding Zones, the existing lakes and the chalk streams, and
  e.    Ensure a safeguarded active travel access route to the Cambridge East development site along with any other relevant access connections, including those that support the double tracking of the Cambridge to Newmarket Line.