Policy S/LAC: Other site allocations in Cambridge

Identify specific site allocations for development in the Cambridge urban area, mainly rolling forward sites from the 2018 Cambridge

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with one new housing site and one refined employment site.

New allocations

The following new allocations are proposed in the Cambridge urban area:

Housing

S/C/SMS Garages between 20 St. Matthews Street and Blue Moon Public House, Cambridge

• Site area of 0.1 hectares
• Capacity for approximately 12 homes, with potential to review the number at later stages of plan making
• Opportunity to improve the character of an existing garages site in a highly sustainable location close to the centre of Cambridge with easy walking access to shops, employment and public transport

• 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.

  should accommodate the following constraints:
• • Retain existing mature tree
  • Design to account for proximity of Blue Moon pub

Employment

S/C/SCL Land South of Coldham's Lane, Cambridge

• Site area of 9 hectares
• Suitable for commercial development (such as relocation of ‘space intensive’ uses such as builders’ merchants sales and storage facilities which are currently located on land elsewhere in the city)
• This site is part of the wider existing South of Coldham's Lane Area of Major Change. This allocation recognises that part of the site is capable of development which takes account of the constraints and opportunities of the site. It is proposed to carry this policy forward into the new LocalPlan.
• The former landfill sites at Coldham’s Lane include areas of potential ecological importance. Any redevelopment of the eastern portion of the landfill sites will require ecological enhancement as part of any redevelopment on site and provision of enhanced wildlife habitat and publicly accessible open space on the western portion of the landfill sites.

Continuing existing allocations

The following allocations which are included within the Cambridge

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2018 (and one site from the South Cambridgeshire

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2018) are proposed to be carried forward into the new

The combined areas of Cambridge District and South Cambridgeshire District Councils.

Short form for the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, which sets out policies to guide the future development of Greater Cambridge. It also sets out where future development will take place, and identifies land for new housing, community facilities, shops and employment. It is the key document use to determine planning applications for new development in the Greater Cambridge area.

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Housing

• S/C/R2: Willowcroft, 137-143 Histon Road – with an amended boundary to exclude 149 and 149B Histon Road that are built and under construction, and a revised capacity of 110 dwellings for the remainder of this allocation. (pdf)
• S/C/R4: Henry Giles House, 73-79 Chesterton Road – with an amended boundary to exclude Carlyle House as we have no evidence for its deliverability, and a revised capacity of 40 dwellings for remainder of the allocation based on guidance in the adopted Mitcham’s Corner

  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.

  Framework Supplementary Planning Document. A higher capacity of potentially around 80 dwellings is being considered to make best use of this site in the centre of Cambridge, subject to ensuring this would be consistent with a design led approach, and this will be considered further through the preparation of the draft

  Short form for the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, which sets out policies to guide the future development of Greater Cambridge. It also sets out where future development will take place, and identifies land for new housing, community facilities, shops and employment. It is the key document use to determine planning applications for new development in the Greater Cambridge area.

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• S/C/R5: Camfields Resource Centre and Oil Depot, 137-139 Ditton Walk (pdf)
• S/C/R6: 636-656 Newmarket Road, Holy Cross Church Hall, East Barnwell Community Centre and Meadowlands, Newmarket Road – however we have limited evidence that the site will still come forward at the moment, and therefore we will need to work with the landowners to gather this evidence to have greater certainty that this site will be brought forward for development by 2041 for it to be included in the draft

  Short form for the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, which sets out policies to guide the future development of Greater Cambridge. It also sets out where future development will take place, and identifies land for new housing, community facilities, shops and employment. It is the key document use to determine planning applications for new development in the Greater Cambridge area.

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• S/C/R9: Travis Perkins, Devonshire Road – with a revised capacity of 60 dwellings. (pdf)
• S/C/U3: Grange Farm off Wilberforce Road (pdf)
• S/C/M4: Police Station, Parkside –the Building of Local Interest must be retained as part of the proposals for the redevelopment of the site for new homes. (pdf)
• RM1 and Policy H/7: Fen Road – This site is identified in the adopted 2018 Local Plans to provide residential moorings for house boats. We will keep this under review when we consider how to meet the need identified for boat dwellers in the preparation of the draft

  Short form for the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, which sets out policies to guide the future development of Greater Cambridge. It also sets out where future development will take place, and identifies land for new housing, community facilities, shops and employment. It is the key document use to determine planning applications for new development in the Greater Cambridge area.

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Mixed use

• S/C/R21: 315-349 Mill Road and Brookfields (pdf)
• S/C/M2: Clifton Road Area – however, the redevelopment of this site to provide new homes will result in a significant loss of employment uses that would need to be relocated, and we have limited evidence that it will still come forward, and therefore we will need to work with the landowners to gather this evidence to have greater certainty that this site will be brought forward for development by 2041. These issues will be considered further as the draft

  Short form for the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, which sets out policies to guide the future development of Greater Cambridge. It also sets out where future development will take place, and identifies land for new housing, community facilities, shops and employment. It is the key document use to determine planning applications for new development in the Greater Cambridge area.

  is prepared. (pdf)
• S/C/M5: 82-88 Hills Road and 57-63 Bateman Street (pdf)
• S/C/M14: Station Road West (pdf)
• S/C/M44: Betjeman House (pdf)
• S/C/U1: Old Press/Mill Lane (pdf)
• S/C/U2: New Museums, Downing Street (pdf)
• S/C/SS/1: Orchard Park (pdf)

Allocations not proposed to be carried forward

Housing

The following residential allocations within the Cambridge

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2018 have been or are being built out and are sufficiently advanced that they do not need a policy framework any longer, and are therefore not proposed to be carried forward:

• R1: 295 Histon Road
• R3: City Football Ground, Milton Road
• R10: Mill Road Depot and adjoining properties, Mill Road
• R12: Ridgeons, 75 Cromwell Road
• R17: Mount Pleasant House, Mount Pleasant

The following residential allocations are not proposed to be carried forward for the reasons set out below:

• R7: The Paddocks, 347 Cherry Hinton Road – this is an active site of mixed commercial uses and in reviewing whether the allocation should be carried forward, it is considered more appropriate to retain the site for the existing uses, rather than it being redeveloped for residential uses. We also have no evidence that it will still come forward for residential uses.
• R8: 149 Cherry Hinton Road & Telephone Exchange, Coleridge Road – there is uncertainty whether this site will still come forward for residential uses by 2041.
• R11: Horizon Resource Centre, 285 Coldham’s Lane – there is uncertainty whether this site will still come forward for residential uses by 2041.
• R14: BT telephone Exchange and car park, Long Road – there is uncertainty whether this site will still come forward site for residential uses by 2041.
• R16: Cambridge Professional

  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.

  Centre, Foster Road – there is uncertainty whether this site will still come forward for residential uses by 2041.

Mixed use

The following mixed use allocations within the Cambridge

Short form for the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, which sets out policies to guide the future development of Greater Cambridge. It also sets out where future development will take place, and identifies land for new housing, community facilities, shops and employment. It is the key document use to determine planning applications for new development in the Greater Cambridge area.

2018 have been built out, and are therefore not proposed to be carried forward:

• M3: Michael Young Centre, Purbeck Road

Employment

The following employment allocations are not proposed to be carried forward for the reasons set out below:

• E4: Church End Industrial Estate, Rosemary Lane – this is an existing employment site that is important to protect for employment uses, therefore we consider it should be de-allocated but be included as a protected industrial site, as set out in J/PB: Protecting existing business space.
• E5: 1 and 7-11 Hills Road – the redevelopment of this site is not considered to be deliverable and therefore the

  The combined areas of Cambridge District and South Cambridgeshire District Councils.

  Employment Land and Economic

  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.

  Evidence Study (November 2020) recommends that it is de-allocated.