Extracts from a City Council Press Release dated Friday 30 November 2012
Six sites that could be suitable for employment and new housing on the edge of Cambridge have been recommended for public consultation by councillors today (Friday 30 November).
Residents will be asked their views in January about sites on either side of Worts’ Causeway for around 480 homes, two sites at Fulbourn Road adjoining the ARM site for employment, with a third for around 75 homes or employment, and land west of Histon Road – to be known as the NIAB 3 site – for an extension of 130 additional homes and employment.
The sites were put forward following a review of the green belt and assessments of issues including transport, drainage and utilities.
Suggested sites for the edge of the City follow a first round of public consultation by Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils asking for views on the main issues being debated for their areas, and options for both councils to provide homes and infrastructure to support up to 50,000 new jobs being created up to 2031.
Concerns were raised to both Councils during the first round of consultation about developing extensively on the green belt around Cambridge, but the sites agreed for consultation means it is unlikely the broad locations consulted on during the summer will proceed any further.
Councillors from Cambridge City, Cambridgeshire County and South Cambridgeshire District Councils have also recommended that the public be consulted on nine sites for a possible community stadium following the meeting of The Joint Strategic Transport and Spatial Planning Group.
The possible community stadium sites are:
– Trumpington Meadows – which would include 420 new homes
– The Union Place site north of the A14 between Milton and Histon
– Land at the NIAB 3 site off Histon Road
– Cowley Road, including the former Park & Ride site
– North of Newmarket Road
– The new town of Northstowe
– A possible new town at Waterbeach Barracks
– A possible new village at Bourn airfield
The sites on the edge of the City, and any further issues specific to Cambridge or South Cambridgeshire will be included in reports to be agreed by each council at their meetings on Thursday 13 December before the joint consultation begins in January.
The joint public consultation will run from Monday 7 January to Friday 18 February 2013. Responses can be made through both Councils’ websites – www.scambs.gov.uk and www.cambridge.gov.uk – and consultation events will be announced.
Views from the summer and forthcoming joint consultations will be used by each council to draft its Local Plan. A further consultation will then be carried out next summer and proposals will be submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for public examination in 2014.