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Policy S/RRA/OHD: Old Highways Depot, Twenty Pence Road, Cottenham

Consultation runs from: 1 December 2025 9:00am - 30 January 2026 5:00pm

  • Site area of 0.6 hectares 
  • Capacity for approximately 1,500 square metres gross internal area of employment use Class E(g)(i) (offices), E(g)(iii) (light industrial), and B8 (storage or distribution) development replacing the existing accommodation. 

1. proposals must demonstrate how they will meet the following requirements: 

  a. proposals must respond to the rural setting by locating built development on previously developed land, retaining the natural screening provided by trees along the road frontage; 

  b. Proposals must ensure that safe and suitable site access can be maintained at all times as the site access lies within Flood Zone 3; 

  c. The site’s landscape boundaries should be retained and enhanced, including provision of a native buffer up to 10 metres on the western boundary and landscape and ecology within the site itself; and 

  d. The siting and design of buildings, in regard to height, scale and form, must respond positively to the local character and setting to ensure no unacceptable adverse impacts on the setting of nearby heritage assets, including the Grade I listed All Saints Church and the Cottenham . 

Supporting information

This is 0.6 hectare site is allocated for employment uses to make better use of an existing employment site to meet the demand for industrial floorspace on a mostly previously developed site within the village framework of Cottenham, a Rural Centre with a substantial number of village services. The site attained planning consent in May 2023 for the re-development of the site for approximately 1,500 square metres (gross) of office and storage (Use Class E(g) and B8). The policy responds to its rural location and the heritage impacts by requiring built development to be confined to the existing previously developed land with appropriate enhancement to landscape boundaries and to mitigate impacts on the historic environment by ensuring buildings are located and designed to reflect the rural village-edge and setting of the Grade I listed All Saints church and Cottenham . A small portion of the site frontage, including the site access, falls within Flood Zone 3 therefore the developer will be required to demonstrate safe access can be maintained at all times.

Site plan of Old Highways Depot, Twenty Pence Road, Cottenham
Figure 115: Site Plan of S/RRA/OHD Old Highways Depot, Twenty Pence Road, Cottenham

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We will consider all comments while developing the next version of the .

All comments must be received by 30 January 2026 at 5pm.