Policy S/EOC/SWO: Land south of Worts’ Causeway

S/EOC/SWO: Land south of Worts’ Causeway    

•    Site area of 7.74 hectares
•    Capacity for approximately 230 homes and up to 400 square metres gross internal area of community and commercial space (Classes E and F)

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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 must demonstrate how they will meet the following requirements:
  a.    The implementation of design-based mitigation, primarily in the form of building height, style, and materials, to limit impacts on the setting of designated assets, adjoining housing and Strategic Viewpoints F Little Trees Hill / Magog, E Limekiln Road, and J Wort’s Causeway / Shelford Road. A sensitive approach to internal street layout and design will integrate the development into this setting on the edge of the Cambridge

A statutory designation made for the purposes of 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.

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  b.    A landscape led design that will deliver appropriate buffers with adjoining existing housing and the Cambridge

A statutory designation made for the purposes of 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.

and retain the country lane appearance and character of Worts’ Causeway, including its verges, hedgerows and bridleway and the existing permissive footpath on the western edge of the site. Landscape mitigation should be consistent with the Landscape Parameter Plan submitted alongside the approved outline planning permission for this site (19/1168/OUT). This will include a distinctive entrance gateway open space with retained mature trees, meadow grass and swales (Babraham Road) and green space for amenity uses framed by 3 storey apartments forming the heart of the development (central square);
  c.    A positive approach to biodiversity which includes the assessment of the wider site for potential to create an ecological corridor between this site and the Land North of Worts’ Causeway site;
  d.    Active travel will be supported by the establishment of appropriate public footpaths linking the development with the surrounding chalk farmland and the retention of Worts’ Causeway’s use for buses only during peak periods, with limited car access to provide a green link into the Cambridge

A statutory designation made for the purposes of 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.

with space for pedestrians, horse riders and cyclists. Car traffic will be further managed through the provision of a single point of crossover between the sites Land North of Worts’ Causeway and Land South of Worts’ Causeway and a single access on to Babraham Road; and
  e.    Archaeological mitigation will be required, with archaeological remains preserved in situ, particularly as the site abuts the Roman road Wort’s Causeway and there is evidence of land undisturbed by modern ploughing present within the site.