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

• Site area of 7.74 hectares
• Capacity for approximately 230 homes (delivering all homes within the plan period) and approximately 400 square metres gross internal area of community and commercial space (Classes E and F)

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

1. 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 including the Grade II listed Milestone, adjoining housing and Strategic Viewpoints F Little Trees Hill / Magog, E Limekiln Road, and J Worts’ 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 Green Belt;
2. Building heights should not exceed two to three residential storeys;
3. A landscape-led design that will deliver appropriate buffers with adjoining existing housing and the Cambridge Green Belt 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 include a distinctive entrance gateway open space with retained mature trees, meadow grass and swales;
4. 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;
5. 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 Green Belt 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 onto Babraham Road; and
6. Archaeological mitigation will be required, with archaeological remains preserved in situ, particularly as the site abuts the Roman road Worts’ Causeway and there is evidence of land undisturbed by modern ploughing present within the site.

Figure 60: Site Plan of S/EOC/SWO: Land south of Worts’ Causeway.