Growth area applications

Reserved matters applications for Phase 1

Approval has been granted for Phase 1. This is located within the north-eastern part of the Trumpington Meadows site, wrapping around the existing John Lewis Distribution Centre and extending to the northern boundary with Waitrose and Anstey Hall. Two separate applications have been approved. In total they comprise 353 of the 1,200 dwellings permitted at Trumpington Meadows under the outline permissions:

• 11/0073/REM is for 164 dwellings that are wholly within Cambridge City Council boundary
• 11/0075/REM is for 189 dwellings, 160 of which are within Cambridge City Council boundary and 29 of which are within South Cambridgeshire District Council boundary.  
• Status:  Approved by the Joint Development Control Committee (JDCC) on 14 July 2011. Related infrastructure works commenced.
• Developer: Barratts
• Case Officer: Janine Richardson

View these applications through Public Access. Work is likely to start on site towards the end of the year.

Trumpington Meadows Primary School

The application for this school was approved subject to conditions by the JDCC on 14 July 2011. Conditions 4 (treatment of tower), 10 (solar shading) and 5 (Public Art) were discharged by JDCC on 6 October 2011. The planning application was made by the County Council's Education Service, reference S/00506/CC. It is for a two form entry primary school incorporating pre-school and community facilities with associated car and cycle parking, multi use games area, hard surface play areas, playing fields, landscaping, external lighting and means of enclosure.

The school will open in September 2012.

Outline applications

• Reference: 08/0048/OUT 
• Status: Approved October 2009. The City Council decision notice is available to view through Public Access.
• Case officer: Sharon Brown

The following conditions have been discharged:

• Condition 9: Design Code
• Condition 11: Strategy for Youth Facilities and Children's Play Provision - Download the Trumpington Meadows Youth and Play Strategy (PDF, 21MB)
• Condition 12: Phasing. Download the Trumpington Meadows phasing plan
• Condition 16: Drainage
• Condition 22: Country Park (Strategic). Download the Trumpington Meadows country park strategic proposal and the Trumpington Meadows country park strategic plan
• Condition 21: Energy. Download the Renewable Energy Strategy
• Section 106 requirement: Trumpington Meadows Public Art Strategy. Download the Trumpington Meadows - Public Art Strategy (read the Public Art Strategy approval letter).

Other Reserved Matters applications

A Reserved Matters application 10/0501/REM for the Phase 1 infrastructure provision (Phase 1 Primary Street and John Lewis Partnership access) was approved at the Joint Development Control Committee on 11 August 2010. These works are currently being carried out.

A Reserved Matters application 10/0695/REM for detailed proposals for the Country Park was approved at the the Joint Development Control Committee on 2 November 2010. This can be viewed via Public Access

Background

Outline applications have been approved for the redevelopment of the site west of Hauxton Road for approximately 1,200 dwellings by Trumpington Meadows Land Company Ltd.

The site falls within Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council administrative boundaries. Two duplicate applications have been approved: 08/0048/OUT (City Council) and S/0054/08/O (South Cambridgeshire).

The applications were approved subject to completion of section 106 agreement at 11 June 2008 Joint Development Control Committee meeting. The Section 106 agreement was signed and approval was issued on 9 October 2009.

The approved applications grant outline planning permission for the development of:

• approximately 1,200 dwellings on 30 hectares of land
• 2.3 hectares of land for a primary school, including enhanced community facilities
• approximately 0.25 hectares of land for retail, live/work and flexible ground floor uses in the local centre
• approximately 60 hectares of country park
• formal and informal open space, a children's play area including a multi-use games area, and a tennis court
• a network of footpaths and cycleways
• two new access points onto Hauxton Road and emergency access off Granchester Road
• 0.9 hectares of land for allotments in the northwest of the site

The site is allocated for housing within the Cambridge Local Plan under policy 9/5.

The Cambridge Southern Fringe Area Development Framework was adopted as planning guidance in January 2006 and provides broad guidelines applicable to the development of the site.

• Application number: 06/0795/OUT
• Case officer: Helen Durrant
• Status: Approved December 2010.  The decision notice is available to view through Public Access.

The outline application was submitted on behalf of the Bell Educational Trust. It was approved subject to the completion of the section 106 agreement at the 11 June 2008 Joint Development Control Committee meeting. The section 106 was signed and the decision notice issued on 14 December 2010.

The application is for a residential development not exceeding 347 dwellings - comprising houses and apartments, including affordable and key worker housing - and 100-bed student living accommodation for the Bell Language School.

• Download the Bell School masterplan

It includes public open space, with vehicular access from Babraham Road and associated roads, footpaths and cycleways, and drainage infrastructure.

The land, commonly known as the Bell site, is allocated for housing development of the Cambridge Local Plan under Policy 9/5. The Cambridge Southern Fringe Area Development Framework provides further planning guidance.

The site is 7.78 hectares in size and is largely undeveloped and is mainly used as paddocks for grazing horses but also includes a playing field used by Bell Language School.

All detailed matters are reserved for later approval, although a detailed layout of the junction of the proposed access from Babraham Road has been prepared.

An illustrative masterplan shows how it is intended to develop the site, which includes the proposed use of 'home zones'.

The application is accompanied by application forms and ownership certificates, six different plans, a planning statement, design and access statement, sustainability statement, transport assessment, highway/access design report, flood risk assessment, landscape and visual impact assessment, ecological appraisal and archaeological evaluation.

A separate detailed application was submitted at the same time for the construction of a three-metre-wide combined footpath and cycleway and emergency access link from the development site to the adopted highway in Greenlands (06/0959/FUL). This was approved in June 2008.

• Application number: 11/0918/REM
• Description: Access from Babraham Road
• Case officer: Helen Durrant
• Status: Refused by JDCC on 6 October 2011. Appeal outstanding.

Multi-story car park

• Application number: 11/0780/REM
• Status: Approved by Planning Committee December 2011
• Case Officer: Elizabeth Rolph

This Reserved Matters application is for a 1,228 space multi-story car park at the southern corner of the current Addenbrooke's campus off Robinson Way. Ultimately this will serve the new Papworth Hospital and the new Children's Hospital. Initially it will be used to replace existing surface car parking to allow the Forum development (see below).

Outline application

• Application number: 06/0796/OUT
• Status: approved subject to completion of section 106 agreement by the Planning Committee on 7 November 2007. Section 106 signed and approval issued 15 October 2009
• Case officer: Elizabeth Rolph

This outline planning permission on land to the west and south-west of Addenbrooke's Campus, Robinson Way, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for up to 215,000sqm floor space for research and treatment and related support activities, landscaping and parking has been approved.

The development will comprise:

• 60,000sqm of clinical research and treatment (D1)
• 130,000sqm of biomedical and biotech research and development (B1(b))
• 25,000sqm of either clinical research and treatment (D1) or higher education or sui generis medical research institute uses.

It will include related support activities within use classes A1, A3, B1 or sui generis uses with no individual premises exceeding 500sqm - a primary sub-station, new areas of public realm, landscaping, parking areas, highway works, drainage works and all other associated infrastructure.

It is designated as a site for redevelopment within the Cambridge Local Plan (2006) under policy 9/5. The Cambridge Southern Fringe Area Development Framework was adopted as planning guidance in January 2006 and provides broad guidelines applicable to the development of the site.

Key documents submitted with the application include a transport assessment, landscape and visual impact assessment, design and access statement, and a series of parameter and site plans.

The site is in agricultural use and is defined on its western edge by the railway line and the northern edge by Long Road College playing fields. The southern edge extends as far as the southern extent of The Forvie site on Addenbrooke's. A primary substation is also proposed as part of the development which is located immediately to the west of the railway line.

Both the Addenbrookes Access Road and Cambridgeshire Guided Busway are shown as key proposed transport links into the site. The design statement incorporates a series of illustrative masterplans and includes a set of design guidelines that are proposed to guide future development.

The Forum

• Application numbers: 06/1279/OUT and 10/1209/EXP (renewal of outline aproval)
• Western edge of Addenbrooke's campus on the corner of Keith Day Road and Robinson Way.
• Description: Hotel, development and Learning Centre, conference Centre and car park.
• Case Officer: Elizabeth Rolph

LMB Building

• Application number: 07/0651
• South of Long Road Sixth Form Collegee and west of Robinson Way
• Description: Replacment Laboratory of Molecular Biology
• Applicant: Medical Research Council
• Case Officer: Elizabeth Rolph
• Status: Under construction

Outline application (Ref 07/0620/OUT) was granted permission in August 2010 for up to 2,300 homes, 40% of which will be affordable.

The application also included a secondary and primary school, a local centre with shops and a community building including a health centre and library. There will be a green corridor between the development and the railway line, which will include playing fields associated with the secondary school, a recreation area and informal open space. There will be several areas of public open space within the built up area.

Work has commenced on the spine road and balancing ponds. Two Reserved Matters applications at the southern end have been approved.

All applications can be viewed through Public Access

Reserved Matters applications for residential

Application number: 10/1296/REM

This application was approved by the Joint Development Control Committee (JDCC) on 14 July 2011. Construction started in the November 2011, first occupation anticipated in summer 2012 and the site completed in early 2015.

Application number: 11/0698/REM

• Site: Royal Showground Parcels 19 & 20 (south of Addenbrooke's Road).
• Description: Reserved matters relating to 128 new homes (access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale)
• Developer: Skanska 
• Case officer: Kirsty Carmichael
• Status: Approved

This application was approved by the JDCC on 6 October 2011. Construction is programmed to start in early 2012.

Outline application

• Application numbers: 07/0620/OUT and 07/0621/OUT (duplicate applications)
• Case officer: Elizabeth Rolph
• Status 07/0620/OUT: approved August 2010
• Status 07/0621/OUT: Appeal dismissed by Secretary of State

Other sites

Applications are to be submitted in spring 2012 for parcels in the northern part of the site with access from Long Road: Skanska for Parcels 1A, 3 & 4 and Countryside Properties for Parcels 1B, 2 & 5.

Bove Homes are developing proposals for parcels north of Addenbrooke's Road.

Outline application 07/0620/OUT has been approved. The application and details relating to the discahrge of conditions are available to view through Public Access.

Details have been approved for the discharge of the following conditions:

• Condition 5: Strategic Phasing Plan

• Condition 6: Design Code

• Condition 9: Youth and Play Strategy, approved in December 2010
• Condition 11: Green Corridor. Download approved in October 2010
• Condition 23: Allotments and Community Gardens approved in October 2010
• Condition 38: Water Strategy
• Section 106 Requirement: The Public Art Strategy was approved in December 2010.

Clay Farm Spine Road and balancing ponds

• Application number: 09/0272/FUL
• Case officer: Helen Durrant
• Status: under construction

This application was approved by the Joint Development Control Committee on 14 July 2010. The decision notice is available to view through Public Access. 

The full application was submitted by Countryside Properties on 27 March 2009. It is for the Spine Road which runs through the Clay Farm development from the Addenbrooke's Access Road roundabout to Long Road, and the balancing ponds in the green corridor. Amendments were received on 26 November 2009.

The balancing ponds are currently being excavated and the spine road is under construction, estimated to be complete early in 2012.

Other Reserved Matters applications

Application number: 11/0319/REM

• Site: Southern part of the green corridor: east of Hobson's Brook and south of Cambridge Guided Busway spur to Addenbrooke's
• Description: Landscaping of open space including details of allotments
• Case officer: Elizabeth Rolph 
• Status: Approved

Application number: 11/0161/REM

• Site: Land west of Hobson's Brook and south of Addenbrooke's Access Road 
• Description: Landscaping of open space and filling in of pond
• Case officer: Elizabeth Rolph 
• Status: Approved 

Application number: 10/1065/REM

• Site/Description: Construction of foul pumping station adjacent to the plantations and works to plantations througout the site. 
• Case officer: Elizabeth Rolph 
• Status: Approved

Background

The Outline application is for:

• residential development of up to 2,300 new mixed-tenure dwellings
• community, sports and recreation facilities
• landscaped open spaces including 49ha. of public open space in the green corridor
• retail (A1)
• non-residential institutions (D1)
• food and drink uses (A3, A4, A5)
• financial and professional services (A2)
• a nursery (D1)
• alternative health treatments (D1)
• provision for education facilities - new secondary and primary schools
• all related infrastructure including - all roads and associated infrastructure, cycleways, footways and crossings of Hobson's Brook
• alternative locations for Cambridgeshire guided bus stops, landscape ecological mitigation area and Addenbrooke's access road pond

The following plans have been approved:

• Location Plan
• Parameter Plan 1: Land Use
• Parameter Plan 2: Access. This is an amended plan approved in September 2010.
• Parameter Plan 3: Landscape
• Parameter Plan 4: Density
• Parameter Plan 5: Maximum Building Heights and Maximum Building Envelopes
• Parameter Plan 6: Urban Design Framework
• LEM P Relocation

The site is 113 hectares in size, currently in agricultural use. It is allocated for residential within the Cambridge Local Plan (2006) under policy 9/5. The Cambridge Southern Fringe Area Development Framework was adopted as planning guidance in January 2006 and provides broad guidelines applicable to the development of the site.

Duplicate outline applications were submitted in July 2007 on behalf of Countryside Properties PLC. Amendments were submitted in December 2007 and April 2008.

Key plans submitted with the application include site plans and a series of parameter showing land use, access, landscape, density, maximum building heights and envelope and urban design framework.

Documents include a design statement, design and access statement and an environmental statement including a landscape and visual impact assessment, and a transport assessment.

Both applications were approved subject to completion of section 106 agreement at Joint Development Control Committee Cambridge Fringes on 14 May 2008. However, an appeal was lodged in May 2009 on 07/0621/OUT on the grounds of overall viability of the Clay and Glebe Farm developments. Subseqent to this the applications were considered further at Joint Development Control Committee Cambridge Fringes on 8 July 2009.  The Public Inquiry on 07/0621/OUT was held on 11 days between 26 September and 19 October 2009, and the appeal was dismissed on 25 February 2010 (see link above). The duplicate application 07/0620/OUT was approved on August 6 2010, with 40% of the homes affordable.

• Application 09/1140/FUL
• Case officer: Elizabeth Rolph
• Status: Under construction 

This site is located north of the section of the Addenbrooke's Access Road between  Hauxton Road and Shelford Road. It is 8.89 hectares, and was previously in agricultural use. This full application is for 286 dwellings with associated landscaping, open spaces, vehicle access from Addenbrooke's access road and related infrastructure. Download the approved site layout (large file 40MB) and the phasing plan.

Archaeology work has been completed. Infrastructure services are currently being installed, and the access from the Addenbrooke's Access Road constructed. Work commenced on the western part of the site (phases 1 - 7) in November 2011. First occupation is likely in autumn 2012 with completion of this part in spring 2014.

The application was approved subject to the completion of the Section 106 agreement at Joint Development Control Committee on 21 April 2010. The S106 Agreement was signed on 6 August 2010, and the decision notice issued. The decision notice and associated legal agreement are available to view through Public Access. The Public Art Delivery Plan has been approved.

Background

The site is allocated for housing development within the Cambridge Local Plan. The Cambridge Southern Fringe Area Development Framework provides further planning guidance.

Outline applications numbers 08/0361/OUT and 08/0363/OUT (identical applications) were submitted by Countryside Properties on 11 March 2008 and are for residential development of up to 300 new mixed tenure dwellings along with associated landscaping, open spaces, vehicle access from Addenbrooke's Access road and related infrastructure.

Both Outline applications were approved subject to completion of section 106 agreement at Joint Development Control Committee Cambridge Fringes on 2 October 2008. However, an appeal was lodged in May 2009 on 08/0636/OUT on the grounds of overall viability of the Clay and Glebe Farm developments. Subseqent to this the applications were considered further at Joint Development Control Committee Cambridge Fringes on 8 July 2009. The Public Inquiry on 08/0636/OUT was held on 11 days between 26 September and 19 October 2009, and the appeal was dismissed on 25 February 2010.

• Application number: 07/0003/OUT
• Case officer: Michael Ovenden 
• Status: This application was approved subject to completion of a Section 106 agreement by Joint Development Control Committee on 14 July 2010 . It is envisaged that the agreement will be signed and the permission issued by the spring of 2012.

Background

The outline application came forward in the context of the adopted Cambridge Local Plan, which allocates it for development under policy 9/8. The application is for a mixed use development on land between Huntingdon Road and Histon Road, Cambridge - commonly known as the NIAB site because it is mostly occupied by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany . The site, which is mainly in agricultural use, is within the Cambridge City Council boundary on the northwest edge of the city and is 48 hectares in size.

The outline application is accompanied by a series of parameter plans and statements concerning land use, building heights, landscaping and access. It fixes a point of access onto Huntingdon Road.  A site location plan, two access detail plans and an illustrative masterplan also accompany the application as does a planning statement, sustainability statement, design and access statement and statement of community engagement.  The application is also accompanied by an environmental assessment, which examines the impact of the proposal and includes a transport assessment and flood risk assessment.

The key plans are:

• Access Parameter Plan [PDF]
• Landscape Parameter Plan [PDF]
• Landuse Parameter Plan [PDF]
• Building Heights Parameter Plan [PDF]
• Urban Design Framework Parameter Plan [PDF]
• Illustrative Masterplan

The proposed development comprises up to 1,593 dwellings dwellings in a range of types and sizes on approximately 40 hectares of land, a combined primary school and community hall, a shop and up to six retail or service units (use classes A1, A2, A3, A4 and A5).  Building heights can vary between one and four storeys, with no more than two storeys proposed along the existing urban edge.

A park is proposed in the centre of the development to cater for formal and informal sports provision, and a green corridor is proposed along the Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council common boundary.

The application also includes associated infrastructure including vehicular, pedestrian and cycleway accesses and drainage works.  The development will gain access onto both Huntingdon Road and Histon Road via new signal-controlled junctions.  The junction on the Huntingdon Road is now operational. The Histon Road junction was subject to a separate application on adjacent land because it falls within the South Cambridgeshire District. This involves the formation of a vehicular, pedestrian and cycleway access road from Histon Road together with drainage and landscaping works. This was also approved by the Joint Development Control Committee on 14 July 2010.  The application documents for the Histon Road junction to serve the NIAB site can be viewed on the South Cambridgeshire District Council website under reference  S/0001/07/F.

Originally the Highways Agency required a planning condition to be imposed to limit the development to 350 dwellings until measures to improve the A14 had been completed.  Following the submission of further information by the applicant, the Highways Agency was satisfied that this limitation was no longer necessary. In August 2011 the JDCC removed that condition from the draft permission.

Current position

The outline permission is likely to be issued shortly.  Officers and the site promoters are now discussing the form of the proposed development. The evolving details are to be shown at the north west Cambridge drop in event on 11 February 2012. For details of community events see Get Involved.

NIAB frontage site

• Application number: 07/1124/REM
• Case officer: Kirsty Carmichael
• Status: Under construction. It was approved at Joint Development Control Committee Cambridge Fringes on 14 May 2008

This is a smaller development adjacent to the main larger NIAB site. It consits of 187 dwellings ranging from one to four bedroom properties, with a mix of flats, flats over garages, duplex units and houses.

The site is on the Huntingdon Road frontage and will be served by a temporary access from Whitehouse Lane in the first instance, but will eventually provide the main access into the wider NIAB site adjacent to the headquarters building.

• Application number: 11/1114/OUT (City Council) & S/1886/11 (South Cambridgeshire District Council)
• Case officer: Mark Parsons
• Status: Outstanding.

An application for development in the North West of Cambridge has been submitted by the University of Cambridge to both Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council. Download the application site boundary [PDF].

The proposal includes:

 Up to 3,000 dwellings;

Up to 2,000 student bedspaces;

100,000 sq.m. employment floorspace, of which: up to 40,000 sq.m. commercial floorspace (Class B1(b) and sui generis research uses) and at least 60,000 sq.m. academic floorspace (Class D1);

 Up to 5,300 sq.m. gross retail floorspace (Use Classes A1 to A5) (of which the supermarket is 2,000 sq.m. net floorspace);

Senior Living, up to 6,500sq.m. (Class C2: Residential institution, eg care home);

Community Centre, Police; Primary Health Care; Primary School; Nurseries (Class D1);

Indoor Sports Provision and open space.

Hotel (130 rooms).

Download the illustrative masterplan [PDF].

The City Council has written to the applicant requiring amendments to the application.  

The application can be viewed through Public Access.