Policy S/RRA: Site allocations in rest of the rural area

Allocate sites for homes or employment that support the overall development strategy within the rural area, excluding the rural southern cluster.

The following allocations are proposed in or adjoining villages:

Housing

S/RRA/ML The Moor, Moor Lane, Melbourn

• Site area of 1 hectare
• Capacity for approximately 20 homes

• 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 trees and strengthen the existing landscape buffer at the rear of the site

S/RRA/H Land at Highfields (phase 2), Caldecote

• Site area of 6 hectares
• Capacity for approximately 64 homes
• Site with lapsed planning permission in close proximity to Cambourne to Cambridge Public Transport Scheme stop

• 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:
• • Provide substantial landscape buffer on eastern boundary.

S/RRA/MF Land at Mansel Farm, Station Road, Oakington

• Site area of 1.4 hectares
• Capacity for approximately 20 homes
• Site in very close proximity to Cambridgeshire Guided Busway stop, providing excellent public transport access to Northstowe and Cambridge and enhancing the approach to the stop for pedestrians, providing the exceptional circumstances required for

  A statutory designation for land around certain cities and large built-up areas, which aims to keep this land permanently open or largely undeveloped, the Green Belt has five purposes: checking the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas; preventing neighbouring towns from merging into each other; assisting in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment; preserving the setting and special character of historic towns and assisting in urban regeneration by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land. Specific Green Belt purposes have been set out for Cambridge.

  release.

• 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:
• • Provide pedestrian access towards the busway stop
  • Provide substantial landscape buffer on eastern boundary.

Mixed use

S/RRA/CR Land to the west of Cambridge Road, Melbourn

• Site area of 6.5 hectares
• Suggested for mixed use, with an indicative capacity for approximately 120 homes and 2.5ha for employment uses
• Opportunity to expand Melbourn Science Park and provide homes in a Minor Rural Centre

• 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:
• • Note that deliverability for employment has yet to be confirmed
  • Ensure integration of any employment uses within the existing Science Park

Employment

S/RRA/SAS Land to the south of the A14 Services

• Site area of 18.2 hectares.
• Suitable for the following uses: Class B2 (General Industrial) or Class B8 (Storage or Distribution) providing a range of small and medium sized units.
• Warehousing and distribution should focus on meeting sub regional needs, therefore the site should provide a mix of small to medium sized units.
• Site meeting evidenced outstanding demand for warehousing and distribution units located close to the strategic road network.

• 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:
• • Site boundaries to provide landscape buffers of a minimum of 25m wide of native tree and understorey planting.  Existing balancing ponds in the area to be re-profiled and used for drainage and biodiversity enhancement.  Adequate space to be reserved within the site for large species tree planting and an amount of native understorey planting focused around the ponds.  Existing watercourses to be utilised and enhanced with further native planting within the drainage proposals.
  • The density of development to reflect the density and pattern of non-residential development in the nearby village of Boxworth.
  • The preservation of the rural countryside character with the development integrated with local patterns of tree planting and hedgerows, hedges to be retained

S/RRA/BBP Land at Buckingway Business Park, Swavesey

• Site area of 2.1 hectares
• Suitable for the following employment uses: Class B2 (General Industrial) or Class B8 (Storage or Distribution). B8 use would be limited to small to medium sized premises.
• Site meeting evidenced demand for warehousing and distribution units around Cambridge connected to the strategic road network, as an extension to an existing employment location.

• 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:

• • 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.

    at this site is contingent upon completing a detailed odour assessment related to the nearby Uttons Drove Water Recycling Centre, to understand the odour amenity constraints.
  • A suitable safe access to be confirmed

S/RRA/SNR Land to the north of St Neots Road, Dry Drayton

• Site area of 4.6 hectares
• Suitable for the following employment uses: E(g)(i) Offices to carry out any operational or administrative functions; E(g)(ii) Research and development of products or processes; and E(g)(iii) Industrial processes.
• Site meeting demand for local employment opportunities at Bourn Airfield New Village

• 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:

• 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.

  form would need to account for the Cambourne to Cambridge transport scheme if it is routed through this area.

S/RRA/OHD Old Highways Depot, Twenty Pence Lane, Cottenham

• Site area of 0.6 hectares
• Suitable for employment Class E(g)(i) (offices to carry out any operational or administrative functions), E(g)(ii) (Research and development of products or processes), and E(g) and B8 (storage or distribution) development replacing the existing accommodation.
• Site meeting demand for industrial floorspace needs, on existing employment site of mostly brownfield land within the village framework of Cottenham, a Rural Centre with a substantial number of village services.

• 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:
• • Built development to only include existing brownfield site
  • The small portion of the site frontage that lies within Flood Zone 3.
  • Enhancement of the Southern and eastern landscape boundaries and landscape and ecology within the site itself.
  • Impacts on the wider settings of the nearby Grade 1 listed church and

    Areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance. You can

    find more information on the Councils’ websites:

    Cambridge: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/conservation-areas 

    South Cambridgeshire: https://www.scambs.gov.uk/planning/natural-historic-and-built-environment/historic-environment/conservation-areas/

Continuing existing allocations

The following allocations which are included within the South Cambridgeshire

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 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/RRA/H/1 (d): Land north of Impington Lane, Histon & Impington (pdf)

Employment

• S/RRA/E/5(1): Norman Way, Over (1.7 ha.) (pdf)
• S/RRA/H/2: Bayer CropScience Site, Hauxton – with an amended boundary to include only the area for employment (class E (g)) uses, as all the new homes on this site have been completed. (pdf)

Mixed use

• S/RRA/H/3: Fulbourn and Ida Darwin Hospitals (pdf)

Allocation not proposed to be carried forward

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

Housing

• H1/e: Land off New Road and rear of Victoria Way, Melbourn – the development is either completed or under construction.
• H1/f: Green End Industrial Estate, Gamlingay – the development is under construction.
• H1/g: Land east of Rockmill End, Willingham – the development is under construction.
• H1/h: Land at Bennell Farm, Comberton (In Toft Parish) – the development is under construction.

Employment

• E/4:1: Longstanton: North of Hattons Road up to the bypass – this site was first identified in the 1993

  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.

  , as part of the Home Farm development. It has not come forward for employment uses, and does not warrant continued allocation given the alternative sites available. However, part of the site is being proposed as a new policy area for residential development and open space (see S/RRP/L).
• E/5:2: Papworth Everard: Ermine Street South – the development has been completed.