Clay Farm and Glebe Farm
Recently the developer announced a new name for these two developments: Great Kneighton. This has proved to be controversial.
These former agricultural sites were allocated for mainly residential development within the Cambridge Local Plan (2006) and were the subject of more detailed planning policy guidance in the Cambridge Southern Fringe Area Development Framework (2006) which was produced and adopted jointly by Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council. By early Autumn 2010 the developers, Countryside Properties had obtained sufficient approvals from the local planning authorities to enable them to make a start on site to construct a spine road between Long Road and the Addenbrookes Access Road.
Countryside Properties has restructured into one company, and one team will now run the whole of Clay Farm and Glebe Farm.
Clay Farm
Site area: 60.7 hectaresProposed development content:
- Up to 2,300 homes including 40% affordable housing
- New secondary and primary schools
- Community, sport and recreation facilities
- Local shops
- Public open space, including allotments
- Roads, footpaths, cycleways and crossings of Hobson's Brook
- Estimated population c4,600.
- Projected housing density: 48 dwellings per hectare overall (90 d/ha max - 40 d/ha minimum)
Planning status:
- Duplicate outline applications (07/0620/OUT and 07/0621/OUT) were submitted in July 2007 and amended in December 2007 and April 2008. On 14 May 2008 both applications were approved by a joint committee of the local planning authorities (called the Joint Development Control Committee Cambridge Fringes) subject to the completion of a Section 106 agreement.
- Countryside Properties lodged an appeal in May 2009 on 07/0621/OUT on the grounds of overall viability of the Clay Farm and Glebe Farm developments. The appeal was dismissed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on 25 February 2010.The duplicate application 07/0620/OUT was approved on August 6th 2010, with 40% of the homes affordable. Countryside Properties have submitted details on aspects of the scheme for the Clay Farm site (between August and October 2010) for approval by the local planning authorities. Such details include: Phasing Strategy, Youth and Play Strategy, Green Corridor Strategic Landscape proposals, Allotments and Community Gardens proposals, a Strategic Site Surface Water Strategy and a Public Art Strategy.
- A full application (number: 09/0272/FUL) for the Spine Road to link the Clay Farm site to Long Road and the Addenbrooke's Access Road and balancing ponds was approved by the Joint Development Control Committee on 14th July, 2010. The balancing ponds and being excavated and the spine road is under construction and is expected to be completed early in 2012.
- eserved Matters approval was granted in July 2011 for 308 dwellings on a site around the Addenbrooke's Access roundabout (referred to as the Royal Showground Parcels 10, 11, 12b and 12c). First occupation is expected by Summer 2012 and the site built out by early 2015. Reserved Matters was also granted for 128 new homes on Royal Showground Parcels 19 and 20 (south of the Addenbrooke's Road) with construction to start in late 2012.
- Other Reserved Matters applications have been granted for: landscaping and open space including allotments for the southern part of the green corridor -east of Hobson's Brook and south of the Guided Busway spur to Addenbrooke's; landscaping of open space and the filling in of a pond west of Hobson's Brook and south of the Addenbrooke's Access Road; and the for a foul sewage pumping station adjacent the plantations, as well as works to plantations throughout the site.
- Design work has started on a ‘shared use’ building in the local centre to accommodate a range of community facilities to serve Clay Farm, Glebe Farm and Trumpington Meadows. The stakeholders include Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, Trumpington Medical Practice and NHS Cambridgeshire. They are working to deliver the community centre during 2013/14. This is subject to review and will be determined by actual housing delivery.
Glebe Farm
(Site area: 9.8 hectares)Proposed development content:
- 286 homes including 40% affordable housing
- Informal open space, allotment provision and associated landscaping
- A vehicular access to the south from Addenbrooke's Access Road. The estimated population is c600.
- Projected housing density: 35 dwellings per hectare (44 d/ha. max).
Planning status
- Identical outline applications (numbers: 08/0361/OUT and 08/0363/OUT) were submitted by Countryside Properties on 11 March 2008 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. An appeal was lodged in May 2009 on 08/0636/OUT on the grounds of overall viability of the Clay Farm and Glebe Farm developments. The appeal was dismissed on behalf of the Secretary of State in February 2010.
- A full application (number: 09/140/FUL) for 286 dwellings with associated landscaping, open spaces, vehicle access from Addenbrooke's Access Road and related infrastructure was submitted on 17 December 2009. The full application for this site was approved subject to the completion of the Section 106 agreement at the Joint Development Control Committee on 21 April 2010. The Section 106 Agreement was signed on 6 August 2010, and the decision notice issued. The Public Art Delivery Plan was approved subject to amendments by the Joint Development Control Committee on 14 July 2010.
- Infrastructure work is nearing completion on Glebe Farm and the first houses should be occupied in summer 2012 and the western part of the site completed in the Spring 2014.
The application documents can be viewed on the Countryside Properties website (see below for link). Decision notices and legal agreements can be viewed on the City Council’s website (see below for link).
http://www.countryside-properties-corporate.com/glebe-farm
Contacts
Developer: Countryside Properties
Masterplanner/architect: PRP Architects
Landscape consultants: David Jarvis
Local authority lead officers: Helen Durrant, Kirsty Carmichael, and Elizabeth Rolph (Clay Farm) and Elizabeth Rolph (Glebe Farm) 01223-457200 switchboard
updated 12.11.11
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