Bourn Airfield New Village
A Spatial Framework & Infrastructure Delivery Plan
Supplementary Planning Document
Adopted October 2019
1 Executive Summary
For further information please contact: Greater Cambridge shared planning policy team Introduction Tel: 01954 713183 The South Cambridgeshire Local Plan was adopted in September 2018. Email: [email protected] Policy SS/7 allocates land south of the A428 at Bourn Airfield for a new village of approximately 3,500 dwellings in addition to a range of supporting South Cambridgeshire District Council infrastructure, services and facilities. This Supplementary Planning South Cambridgeshire Hall Document (SPD) has been drafted to guide the implementation of the new Cambourne Business Park village, providing more detail to the adopted policy. Cambridge CB23 6EA What does the SPD say?
The SPD provides an overview of the site context and key issues to be addressed, noting the location of the site immediately to the east of Cambourne and west of Highfields Caldecote.
The vision for the new village is:
Bourn Airfield will be a distinct new South Cambridgeshire village acknowledging its historic past but with its own contemporary identity. A diverse, yet integrated community, with a range of facilities and services to complement, not compete with, existing local provision. Well connected to the wider area by high quality public transport and providing employment and homes to support the Greater Cambridge economy. The village will have a vibrant and strong heart, supporting healthy, active and inclusive community lifestyles and providing a high quality of life for its residents in a beautiful contemporary landscape setting.
The village will be embedded in a network of multi-functional green infrastructure, which is accessible and sustainable, being integrated with the natural environment. Supporting walking, cycling and public transport as the preferred mode of choice for travel for people within the new village and beyond, and facilitating a move towards net zero carbon lifestyles through an innovative approach to planning, design and construction.
i This vision is further supported by six strategic objectives: The SPD sets out the expectations in respect of achieving high levels of sustainable construction, but also looking to the overall layout of the 1. A Well Connected Place new village to provide opportunities for innovation and creative planning. 2. Vibrant, Prosperous and Inclusive There are exciting opportunities for the new village at Bourn Airfield to 3. Healthy, Active and Resilient incorporate energy generation and efficiency measures that will mean the new village becomes an exemplar development in moving towards net zero 4. Locally Distinctive carbon lifestyles. 5. Responsive and Sustainable
6. Cohesive, Well Planned and Well Governed The Infrastructure Delivery Plan identifies the necessary supporting facilities and infrastructure that will be required to ensure the new village is successful and cohesive. These elements include a secondary school and The Spatial Framework which is set out in a plan establishes the broad two primary schools, a village centre and additional neighbourhood hub structure for development of the new village along with the indicative with community facilities. Also, improvements to existing pedestrian, cycle positions of key land uses, primary movement, and green and blue and bridleway routes and the creation of new links in and around the new infrastructure. The Framework is supported by a series of guiding principles village. There will be a wide range of green infrastructure, including parks and spatial fixes, which are key to the delivery of a successful place. and sports pitches to support a healthy lifestyle for its residents.
The new village will form a street network that integrates movement and place, in an environment that promotes walking and cycling. The delivery of the Cambourne to Cambridge High Quality Public Transport route will provide two stops to the new village. One of the stops will be adjacent to the village centre, where a number of retail, commercial and community uses, in addition to the secondary school, will be located. These facilities will lead to the Runway Park, reflecting the alignment of the former north-south runway and providing a substantial linear park.
ii iii Foreword
This Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) concerns the Bourn Airfield New Village. It has been prepared by South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) and our consultants Arup. The document provides guidance about how the new village should be designed, developed and delivered in accordance with Policy SS/7 of the adopted South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018). It is informed by survey work and analysis.
iv v Contents
1 Introduction 3 2 Site Context 11 3 Vision & Objectives 25 4 Spatial Framework 29 5 Creating the Place 33 6 Delivering the Place 73
Appendices 93
vi 1 1 Introduction
Figure 1 | Strategic Location 1.1 Background This SPD has been prepared in partnership by Arup and South Cambridgeshire District Bourn Airfield has been allocated in the Council (SCDC), working in collaboration South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018) with technical and community stakeholders, for the development of a new village of and the site promoters. approximately 3,500 homes, together with associated community facilities and The SPD has been subject to wider public infrastructure improvements (Local Plan consultation (see Sections 1.4 and 1.7 for Policy SS/7: Bourn Airfield New Village). As further information on the SPD process and a major development site, it represents a engagement). significant opportunity to deliver an example of excellence in sustainable development The SPD is a significant material and healthier living, which will make a consideration in determining any planning significant contribution to the long-term applications for the development of the site. development needs of the Cambridge area.
The Bourn Airfield New Village Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) expands upon Local Plan Policy SS/7 and provides additional details and guidance relating to comprehensive development and delivery of the new village and the creation of a successful place.
Figure 2 | Policy SS/7 Allocation
2 3 1.2 Purpose & Scope 1.3 Key Issues historic settlement patterns (and on- 5. Relationship with the existing going growth of Cambourne) will be a employment site The purpose of this SPD is to ensure a The success of delivering a new village fundamental consideration in determining comprehensive approach to masterplanning will be dependent on a variety of factors. the physical relationships, context and An existing manufacturing use, under and development of the new village, in Several key delivery issues have been setting between new and existing places. separate ownerships, is located towards a manner which is responsive its local identified for the SPD to address: the north-eastern corner of the major context. It provides clarity to assist The development of Bourn Airfield development site. The design and layout developers, landowners and delivery 1. Delivering a strong community with its should not result in the coalescence of of development will need to consider stakeholders in creating a place that own identity settlements. In particular, there should how to accommodate or integrate the integrates new housing with a range of not appear to be a continuous ribbon of employment uses should they remain land-use, infrastructure, landscapes and It will be important for the new development along the A428, as required in their current format, expand and re- existing communities. community to establish a distinct by Section 6b of Local Plan Policy SS/7. develop, or vacate the site. sense of identity. Due to the location Each settlement should be defined by The SPD provides a clear vision, and of the site, and given its proximity to substantial structural landscape. This will include consideration of the framework for planning the new village and surrounding villages, a balance needs visual and aesthetic impacts, amenity sets out broad delivery mechanisms. to be struck between creating a new 4. Supporting a shift towards sustainable issues (including noise and air quality), place with its own unique identity and access and movement and the need to retain suitable vehicular The SPD is structured to provide a clear building an appropriate relationship with access for future residents and visitors to explanation of how the new village should the form and character of existing local There is significant opportunity to the new village. be developed: settlements and landscape. create a well-connected and sustainable development through the promotion Successful comprehensive delivery 1. Site context outlines existing land-uses, This SPD sets out an overall of high-quality pedestrian and cycling of this site will require engagement, landscape, heritage assets, access infrastructure requirement necessary for connections and improved public collaboration and co-ordination between and connectivity, and relationships the new village, focusing on what will transport infrastructure. The success site promoters and landowners of both to nearby communities, as well as be required early in the development of this will be dependent on resolving the principal site and employment opportunities and constraints for the to help secure the foundation of strong existing movement and access sites to ensure that the new village is site; community cohesiveness, as well as limitations, the provision of strategic cohesively designed with the necessary establishing appropriate relationships supporting infrastructure, and the ability supporting infrastructure provided at the 2. Vision and Objectives sets out an with existing communities. to provide meaningful connections with right time. overarching, high level vision and existing settlements and destinations. strategic objectives for the new village; 2. Green to the core 6. Potential capacity of the site 3. The Spatial Framework identifies the Policy SS/7 sets out no vehicular broad locations and requirements for In recognition of the impacts of climate access will be provided to the Broadway Local experience has shown that new various components of the new village; change SCDC aspires to create a for southbound traffic, therefore, settlements of this scale can support cleaner, greener and zero-carbon future traffic management solutions must a secondary school which is also 4. Creating the Place provides a series for all its communities. It will therefore be considered from the outset and important for community cohesion. This of guiding principles, which explain be necessary for all elements of the incorporated into design proposals must be balanced with housing built at how the strategic objectives should be new village to integrate with the natural to prevent ‘rat running’. Achieving appropriate densities across the site, delivered, and spatial fixes which are environment, be innovatively designed enhancements to the wider walking, sensitive to setting and context. required to deliver them on-site where and planned to meet and where possible cycling and horse-riding network appropriate; exceed sustainability policy targets, connectivity is also be a key requirement. Policy SS/7 provides that the final 5. Delivering the place includes an and to secure net gains in biodiversity. number of dwellings will be determined Infrastructure Delivery Plan and Any adverse environmental impacts will The SPD sets out key access and through a design-led approach and outlines the mechanisms and not be supported unless they can be movement principles, alongside spatial framework diagram within this collaborative approaches to phasing appropriately justified and mitigated. a package of critical transport SPD. This SPD will consider those infrastructure, to help support a shift factors when drawing together the spatial and delivery of the new development to 3. Settlement pattern ensure a well-served and functioning from the reliance upon the private car options. place is established from the start. to more sustainable transport modes for The new village will be situated close to journeys internal and external to the new Cambourne to the west and Highfields settlement. Caldecote to the east and to the north of Bourn Village, each of which has a strong landscape setting. The respective
4 5 1.4 Process and Programme 1.5 Planning consent for Figure 3 | Planning policy and consents timeline development Figure 3 sets out the key steps in the preparation of the Supplementary Planning The SPD forms one part of the planning Document. process between Local Plan allocation and people moving in to the built settlement. Prior to the preparation of the draft SPD This process is set out in Figure 3. the Council undertook initial engagement with landowners, stakeholders and local In parallel to the preparation of the SPD, community representatives (see Section the site promoters submitted their outline 1.7). Initial proposals for the site have been planning application to the Council for subject to review by the Cambridgeshire determination. The Council can determine Quality Panel in June 2016 and December the planning application now the SPD 2017. These processes informed the draft has been adopted. Applications should SPD. demonstrate a comprehensive approach to development, as set out in this document. In order to comply with legislation, the SPD is accompanied by the following documents: There are three key land holdings within the overall site of Bourn Airfield. For the largest 1. Strategic Environmental Assessment part of the site, Countryside PLC submitted Screening Report (SEA). an outline planning application (S/3440/18/ OL) in September 2018. Additionally, there 2. Habitats Regulations Screening Report are two further smaller landholdings in the (HRA). north east section of the overall allocation for the new village. It is understood that 3. Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA). these are to remain in employment use, and a planning application has been submitted Each of these documents was published for (reference number: S/1031/19). The Council public consultation alongside the draft SPD. will be mindful of these additional, but separate, processes which are running in The Council is also required to publish a parallel to the preparation of the SPD. Consultation Statement which outlines the consultation undertaken in accordance The development of the new village will with the provisions of the Statement of take several years to obtain the necessary Community Involvement. planning consents and longer to build out. It is important to ensure that each All the comments received on the draft SPD of the individual phases is accompanied and accompanying documents during the by the timely provision of appropriate consultation period were considered by the infrastructure and facilities to serve the new Council before finalising the SPD (and the residents and enable the new community to accompanying documents). establish itself.
The adopted SPD is a significant material consideration in the determination of planning applications for development.
6 7 1.6 Planning Policy Context further supported by the Planning Practice cycling, walking and public transport, 1.7 Community Engagement Guidance2, providing additional detail to including the delivery of high-quality National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) national policy. public transport links to Cambridge, as Many people and organisations have part of a rapid, high quality, route between an interest in the proposals to develop The NPPF1 provides a positive policy South Cambridgeshire Local Plan Cambourne and Cambridge. Bourn Airfield New Village. National policy context for the consideration of the requires that this should be more than a new village. A presumption in favour of The South Cambridgeshire Local Plan The Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP)5 simplified process of scrutinising proposals sustainable development is at the heart of (SCLP)3 was adopted in September is responsible for delivering the new route but involve a creative exercise in finding Government policy and place making based 2018 following an extensive independent between Cambourne and Cambridge; the ways to enhance and improve the places in upon the ‘three pillars’ of sustainability examination. The Local Plan covers the alignment will serve the new village. The which people live their lives. – economic, social and environmental development period 2011-2031. Policy SS/7: alignment through the new village (shown components. Bourn Airfield New Village allocates the site on the Spatial Framework Diagram) has The draft SPD was prepared following for approximately 3,500 new homes. been agreed in consultation with the GCP discussions with public sector stakeholders, In addition, the achievement of high-quality and Cambridgeshire County Council. local community representatives and buildings and places is a fundamental Policy SS/7: Bourn Airfield New Village landowners, to gather initial concerns, strand of planning. Good design is a provides detail on the components for the The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough aspirations and ideas, and later to refine key aspect of achieving sustainable New Village including the requirement Combined Authority is the Local Transport initial thinking about the vision, objectives development and healthy communities, for an SPD to provide greater detail and Authority and is preparing a new Local and spatial framework. Further information creating better places in which to live clarity on spatial outcomes and delivery. Transport Plan for Cambridgeshire and is included in the Consultation Statement. and work. In brief, the delivery of the new Guidance is also provided on the land use Peterborough. The Mayor aspires to village would contribute to this agenda by: components and the range and mix of land develop a world class public transport The Consultation Statement also provides uses expected to support a thriving New system which may include a metro, and the a summary of the representations received 1. Delivering a range of new homes to meet Village (See Appendix 1 for the full policy proposed GCP Cambourne to Cambridge during the public consultation and how the housing needs; and supporting text). route has the potential to be part of this Council has taken them into consideration network. in finalising the SPD for adoption. 2. Providing a well-designed, sustainable This SPD cannot create new policy but place that is well connected; expands upon Policy SS/7 to provide Caldecote Village Design Guide additional guidance for the development of Supplementary Planning Document 3. Providing economic opportunities (new the site. Figure 4 | Community Stakeholder Engagement jobs and connection to existing jobs); The Caldecote Village Design Guide Event It follows that the SPD is not a standalone covers the lands immediately east and 4. Providing new and enhanced facilities document and must be read in conjunction south east of Bourn Airfield, therefore, any and infrastructure for existing and new with the ‘parent’ policy (Policy SS/7) proposal should consider the guide to help communities; and other policies in the Development achieve wider aspirations of neighbouring Plan, including the Cambridgeshire settlements. One of the key design priorities 5. Prioritising sustainable modes of and Peterborough Minerals and Waste outlined is to ensure that the relationship transport and movement; Development Framework, the NPPF and with the new settlement at Bourn Airfield other national policy guidance. is positive and allows good off-road 6. Bringing previously developed land back connections whilst maintaining distinct into use; and Transport strategy for Cambridge and South settlements. The importance of good quality Cambridgeshire pedestrian and cyclist connections to Bourn 7. Managing and enhancing the natural and Airfield are also important, with proposed historic environment. There is an emphasis on achieving a connections outlined in the Connections comprehensive sustainable movement Map (Figure 11, page 15). Furthermore, The NPPF also recognises the positive framework within the new development and the need to ensure appropriate edges role that large-scale developments can beyond, in accordance with the Transport are provided to preserve the character of play in delivering sustainable places Strategy for Cambridge and South Caldecote are set out, which is directly of and inclusive communities. The NPPF is Cambridgeshire4. This means prioritising relevance for any proposals.
References 1 - National Planning Policy Framework (February 2019), available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/ References system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779764/NPPF_Feb_2019_web.pdf 4 - Transport Strategy for Cambridge and South Cambridge (April 2014), available at: https://www.scambs.gov.uk/media/11028/ transport-strategy-for-cambridge-and-south-cambridgeshire.pdf 2 - Planning Practice Guidance, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/planning-practice-guidance 3 - South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (September 2018), available at: www.scambs.gov.uk/localplan2018 5 - Greater Cambridge Partnership, website: https://www.greatercambridge.org.uk/
8 9 2 Site Context
2.1 The site and its Location The site comprises a former World War Two (WWII) airfield, adjoining agricultural land The site is located approximately 11km west and a partially occupied employment site. of Cambridge City Centre, bounded by Existing uses of the former airfield include the A428 and St Neots Road to the north facilities for light aircraft by Rural Flying and Broadway to the west. The site sits Club (RFC), storage of tower cranes and beyond the Cambridge Green Belt close to shipping containers, and as the location the new settlement of Cambourne, and in for Bourn Market which takes place four close proximity to a number of established times a year. The site includes a number of settlements within open countryside: existing private properties with access from Highfields Caldecote immediately to the Broadway including Grange Farm. the east, Knapwell village to the north, Cambourne to the west, and Bourn to the The total site area is 282ha, of which south-west. 171.2ha comprises the ‘Major Development Site’ (MDS) identified by policy SS/7, Cambourne is one of South forming the extent of the site that will Cambridgeshire’s newest settlements, accommodate the built development of the located directly to the west of the site. New village (see Figure 2, on page 3). homes are currently being built at Upper Cambourne and further homes have been proposed / approved to the west of Lower Cambourne.
Figure 5 | Location of Bourn Airfield in relation to surrounding settlements
10 11 2.2 Ownership 2.3 Site features and Surrounding context Figure 7 | Site features and surrounding context Much of the airfield site is owned and managed by the Taylor family who currently The site is dominated by the three runways Figure 7 | Site features and surrounding context farm the surrounding land. Countryside associated with the former airfield use. Part Properties have an interest in the site and of the runway is used for flying light aircraft (with the Taylor family) now control most of by the RFC flying club with associated the allocated site. facilities located on the site.
The employment area in the north east of An established employment area is sited the site (approx. 10 ha) is owned by two within the north-eastern corner of the 1 separate land owners (D B Group and site, accessed via Wellington Way. The 2 4 Diageo Pension Fund) who have indicated operations and processes which take place
3 10 Site Context they wish to continue employment-led on the DB Group site include the following: 5 6 operations on the land (figure 6). Highways 11 9 England own land adjacent to the site, • Sand grading - filtering sand to provide 8 14 associated with the construction of the different levels of fineness; 12 12 7 A428, which may be required to form access points. The SPD process has • Production of additives used in concrete included engagement with all of these mixes - blending of powders from silo 17 18 parties. storage; 16 15 Some parts of the site are in other private • Warehousing - receipt and dispatch of 12 ownership. These areas fall outside of the goods either manufactured or purchased Major Development Site and will not be off site for resale.
developed. 19 The blending and grading process undertaken on site generates external noise, particularly in respect of the 20 Figure 6 | Site ownership extraction system used to reduce material spillage and particles in the air. The site is also serviced by an average of 2 incoming and 3 outgoing HGV movements a day.
Existing farm buildings associated with the Grange are located in the south western corner of the site, and include a farmhouse and a grade II listed pair of 18th century 21 barns. The grade II listed Great Common Farmhouse is located on the Broadway, opposite and outside the site. 1 Cambourne Business Park 11 Diageo site 2 Cambridge Belfry Hotel 12 Airfield approaches A number of other residential and 3 Cambourne Village Centre and Supermarket 13 Cambourne Nature Reserves / Country Park commercial properties are located within the site adjacent to Broadway, which are 4 Cambourne Fitness & Sports Centre 14 Great Common Farmhouse excluded from the Major Development Site. 5 Jeavons Wood Primary School 15 The Grange farmhouse and barns 6 Communications mast 16 RFC Flying Club 7 The Vine Primary School 17 Woodland 8 Co-op supermarket 18 Caldecote Primary School 9 Runways 19 Water Treatment Plant 10 D B Group site 20 Bourn Windmill 21 St Helena and St Mary’s Church
Bourn Airfield New Village | A Spatial Framework & Infrastructure Delivery Plan | Adopted 2019 13 12 13 2.4 Access, Movement & Public Transport The SPD does not explore a direct, grade The Strategic Road Network and Delivery Connectivity separated access to the A428 from the new of Sustainable Development’, sets out The local area is served by several bus village. Extensive transport modelling was that a need must be established with no Active Travel (Cycling, walking and horse services, with existing stops in surrounding undertaken to support the preparation of alternative solutions for the development riding) villages. The Citi 4 bus route provides the Local Plan, taking into consideration of a new junction. In addition, in line an express service from Cambourne to all planned development. It did not identify with current design standards, Highways A high proportion of trips in Cambridgeshire Cambridge and the 18 service serves Bourn. a need for a new junction but did identify England have outlined there is marginal are made by bicycle compared to the rest A high-quality public transport route linking a need for a dedicated high quality public room for a new junction and junctions of the UK, however only 2-5% of work trips Cambourne to Cambridge is being planned transport route to link with jobs and which are spaced too closely, creating are made by cycle within the wards directly with the route passing through the northern services in and around Cambridge. The unnecessary weaving with traffic changing surrounding the site. The site is currently part of the site. overarching vision for the adopted Local lanes raising greater safety risks and poorly connected for long distance cycling, Plan, including for the new settlements, is increased congestion. with no national cycle route designations There is currently no railway service to secure a modal shift away from use of in the area. The site is approximately a 40 within this area, the nearest stations being the private car. The Inspectors examining minutes cycle ride from central Cambridge at St Neots and Cambridge North. The the Local Plan found this approach ‘sound’. however the route is not completely traffic- Cambourne to Cambridge high quality Highways England Policy ‘Circular 20/2013 free and is largely along St Neots Road. public transport route will connect to The part of the route from Hardwick to Cambridge North station, and ultimately Cambridge is off-road. However, the serve St Neots station in the longer term. Greater Cambridge Partnership intend to Consultation closed in spring 2019 in Figure 8 | Access, Movement & Connectivity include cycling and pedestrian facilities respect of potential route options for the within their Cambourne to Cambridge Better Bedford to Cambridge section of the East Public Transport Project. West Rail connection between Oxford and Cambridge, two of which could include Pedestrian and cycle movement from a station at Cambourne. If a new station and across the site is further restricted is proposed at Cambourne it would be by physical and perceived barriers such accessible to Bourn Airfield residents via as enclosed private land, which interrupt the high quality public transport service and the connectivity of Public Rights of an extensive network of cycle and walking Way (PRoWs) and footpaths within the routes. surrounding countryside. Road Cambourne, however, features an extensive network of cycleways and footpaths, with St Neots Road, Broadway, Highfields several connections to the Broadway and Road and Knapwell High Street form the other villages in the wider area, such as main local road network, connecting to Caxton and Elsworth. The existing PRoWs neighbouring villages, linking to the A428 present an opportunity to create stronger and A14, providing potential access to site. linkages with Cambourne (via PRoW 279/3) There are multiple existing access points and to a lesser degree Highfields Caldecote serving existing properties and from the (via PRoW 26/15). roundabout in the north-eastern corner of the site, via Wellington Way. There is no A bridleway passes close to the southern direct vehicle route between the site and boundary of the site, providing a route Cambourne, immediately to the west. between Highfields Caldecote and Bourn village, and onwards to surrounding The A428 forms the main route into countryside. Again, there is an opportunity Cambridge and provides connections to the to link and extend existing bridleways to A14/A1 and the M11 via the A1303. Junctions create more extensive and permeable for providing access to the A428 are located all non-motorised users throughout the site 2km to the east and west of the site. The and surrounding areas. road was substantially upgraded to a dual carriageway in 2008. Further work is due to take place between Black Cat and Caxton Gibbet to the west of Cambourne.
14 15 2.5 Landscape, Ecology & Water Hill Plantation in the south-eastern Views & vistas corner; The site has an undulating topography, The site slopes away gently towards the Figure 9 | The runways and employment site falling gently into the valley created by the • Mature hedgerow trees alongside the south, allowing extensive views over the small watercourse which runs north-to- watercourse from Bucket Hill Plantation surrounding countryside. Horizons are often south through the middle of the site. The and the bridleway in the south; distant, but most are wooded with key views land slopes away gently towards the south. to the south and into the site. • Blocks of woodland, groups of trees, and The character of much of the site has been specimen trees surround the Grange in The fields which slope away to the south of determined by the former airfield use, the south-western corner; and the woodland are more sensitive to external and consequently there is little natural or views. The design and layout of the site will planted vegetation within its heart. The site • A hedgerow on the western boundary need to consider the visual impacts of the is dominated by the three hard surfaced with Broadway, opposite Great Common existing employment site and views from runways which cross and subdivide the Farm. surrounding properties, public routes and field parcels. These runways continue to main roads. influence the wider landscape by virtue of The surrounding area includes large-scale gaps in the treeline to the south made to geometric fields with the occasional more There are three Registered Parks and facilitate the approach to the airfield by organic edges due to a natural boundary, Gardens located within the vicinity of the aircraft in World War Two (WWII). such as a watercourse. site at Childerley Hall to the north, Bourn Hall to the south west and Longstowe Hall Figure 10 | Western boundary The northern edge of the site includes There is one formally designated ecological further to the west. There is no identified notable embankments particularly where site within the SPD area. The Bucket inter visibility between these sites and the Broadway and St Neots Road cross over Hill Plantation Grassland County Wildlife proposed new village, however additional the A428. The site falls entirely within the Site (CWS), a semi-improved grassland, assessment of visual impact should be Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands is located directly to the north of Bucket considered in detail through future planning landscape character area as identified by Hill Plantation and adjoining the south of applications. Natural England. This character is defined the Major Development Site boundary. as a broad, gently undulating, lowland This appears not to have been managed plateau dissected by shallow river valleys and is currently somewhat overgrown and with large-scale arable farmland. and development will need to protect and enhance this habitat and include plans for Boundaries include some mature, but its long-term management. overgrown hedgerows (common species are hawthorn, blackberry & elder) with an There are seven Sites of Special Scientific occasional mature hedgerow tree (often Interest within 5km of the site boundary common oak). One significant stand of (including Overhall Grove SSSI and Ancient mature deciduous woodland exists on the Woodland at Knapwell), one of which south-eastern corner of the site (Bucket is also designated as a Special Area of Figure 11 | Woodland track Hill Plantation), with three densely wooded Conservation (SAC). hedgerows extending north and west from it. A smaller stand of deciduous woodland Any application for development must surrounds the Grange and air traffic consider any direct and indirect impacts control buildings on the western edge of on habitats within the site and beyond the site. Significant stands of trees which including nearby designated sites, for are protected by Tree Preservation Orders example in terms of lighting and the (TPOs) and/or have been graded as appropriate level of public access. There Category A trees (trees of high quality and is a particular opportunity to provide value) include: enhancements through new and reinforced woodland planting around the edges of the • Site boundaries from the boundary site. of the industrial site with Highfields Caldecote in the east through to Bucket
16 17 2.6 Flood Risk 2.7 Townscape & Built Environment The site falls entirely within Flood Zone 1, Figure 13 | The watercourse Figure 14 | Cambourne from above indicating a low probability of a river flood The surrounding area has a mixed event (<1 in 1000 annual probability). townscape character with several established villages located nearby. The site is within the Bourn Brook Buildings in surrounding villages are catchment area, with the main channel of typically 1 and 2 storeys in height (8-9m to the Brook about 2km to the south. However, ridge). there is a tributary channel within the site, which connects to the Brook. It is The site contains two Grade II listed barns known that there have been flood events dating from the 18th century which form associated with the Bourn Brook further part of The Grange Farm buildings. The downstream and any development will need main house at The Grange dates from the to ensure the provision, management and 19th century, and whilst it is of distinctive maintenance of a sustainable drainage historic character, it is not listed or directly scheme designed to mitigate the risk of associated with the listed barns. flooding beyond the site boundaries. The existing runway and other elements Some areas of localised potential for associated form part of the legacy of the surface water flooding within the site have RAF Bourn Airfield, which is associated Figure 15 | Highfields Caldecote Figure 16 | Bourn been identified, associated with low lying with the Battle of Britain. However, the areas of land but it is concluded that these site is undesignated, and few structures can be incorporated into the blue or green associated with the airfield remain. There infrastructure requirements for the site. are two extant gaps in the hedgerows on the edges of the site to the south and the west which were used to guide pilots to the runways during WWII. It will therefore be important to consider the relationship of the existing historic context when considering Figure 12 | Flood Zone Map sight lines within and from outside the site to facilitate good legibility and wayfinding.
The surrounding area has a mixed townscape character with several villages located nearby. In particular, Conservation Areas are located in Bourn village to the south and Knapwell village to the north. Figure 17 | Cambourne Figure 18 | Listed 18th century barns Bourn is a historic rural settlement with a distinctive and attractive townscape character.
Key buildings in the surrounding area include the church of St Helena & St Mary at Bourn, Bourn Windmill, and numerous notable large houses. Any proposal must ensure sensitive heritage assets are considered and mitigation is provided where necessary to avoid any significant affects.
18 19 Cambourne has a modern suburban to access. The new settlement should Sports and leisure facilities Faith townscape character typical of 21st century provide complementary facilities to serve its residential development, with some variety residents rather than competing and should There is an existing leisure centre at There are several churches in the across the three Cambourne villages. The help to support the wider existing offer. Cambourne which provides a fitness suite, surrounding areas of the site: Cambourne layout is based on a series of primary exercise studios, sports hall and 5-aside Church Centre, Peacehaven Baptist Church streets which feed a variety of cul-de-sacs. Retail facilities pitch facilities, in addition to Cambourne (Cambourne), Church of St Helena & St Housing is typically two or three storeys. Sports Pavilion. Caldecote Sports Pavilion Mary (Bourn) and Caldecote Church. Materials used are typically red and buff Bourn village High Street and Highfields provides outdoor play facilities, courts and brick, cream render and pitched roofs. Caldecote consist largely of residential fields, with Caldecote F.C. in the village Health Cambourne also includes some four storey development, with limited retail, food and also. There are sports facilities, including a buildings and more substantial commercial drink options. Cambourne hosts a few football pitch, cricket pitch, skate ramp and There are three doctors’ surgeries in buildings, including the Belfry hotel and a cafes, restaurants and public houses, in tennis courts at the Hardwick Recreation the surrounding area: Monkfield Medical large supermarket building. addition to convenience retail offerings, Ground. Practice in Cambourne, Bourn Surgery and including a supermarket. There is a small Comberton Surgery. A dental surgery and Bourn has a distinctive and attractive convenience store in Hardwick, over 6km The village of Bourn contains a sports field pharmacy are located in Cambourne. The townscape character associated with its east of Bourn Airfield. Cambridge city and park and Bourn Golf Club is located nearest NHS hospital, Addenbrooke’s is historic development as a rural settlement. centre represents the nearest location for almost 3km south of the site. There are located in Cambridge, 16km away. This includes traditional cottages built from higher order comparison retail. several areas for informal recreation in the a range of materials and includes distinctive vicinity, including Cambourne Country Park, Emergency and Civic Services thatched roofs. Community Facilities Eco Park and Nature Reserve. The closest police and fire service are Highfields Caldecote, is a linear Several venues in the vicinity provide In addition, Cambridge provides a further based in Cambourne. The offices of SCDC development located to the east along community meeting space: The Hub array of facilities for sports and leisure, are in Cambourne and many Parish and Highfields Road which historically consisted (Cambourne Community Centre), Bourn including those managed by the University Town Councils exist in the wider vicinity. primarily of large modern bungalows set Village Hall, The Blue School in Cambourne of Cambridge on the western edge of back from the street, which contributes to a (hall and three classrooms are available to the city, which are available for hire by limited townscape distinctiveness. However, hire for community use), Cambourne Soul members of the University and wider after recent developments the village (primarily for youth) and Caldecote Village community. now contains a significant number of two Hall. There are post offices located in storey properties so has a somewhat mixed Bourn, Toft and Hardwick. Figure 19 | Surrounding Facilities and Services character. Education St Helena & St Mary’s Church in Bourn is a notable landmark with its spire around Early years provision is provided for 25m in height. Other key buildings in the through the private and community sectors surrounding area include Bourn Windmill, in the surrounding local villages. Primary and numerous notable large houses. education is met through The Vine Inter- Church Primary School, Jeavons Wood Great Common Farmhouse, a late 16th/ Primary School, Monkfield Park Primary early 17th century farmhouse located to the School and the Hardwick and Cambourne west of Broadway adjacent to the site, is Community Primary School in Cambourne, grade II listed. Caldecote Primary School, Bourn C of E Primary School and Hardwick Community Primary School. Cambourne Village College 2.8 Community Facilities and is approximately 5.6km by road and 3.5km Services by bike, from the site and Comberton Village College is about 8km. Both Village As Bourn Airfield is situated within close Colleges are operating at full capacity. proximity of the existing settlements of There are no special schools within the Cambourne, Highfields Caldecote and immediate vicinity of the site, however, Bourn, there are established community Gretton School is located 13.5km to the facilities and services in the surrounding north east. areas which new residents would be able
20 21 2.9 Opportunities and Constraints
The contextual analysis reveals a broad range of potential opportunities and constraints which will help to shape future development proposals.
Figure 20 | Key Opportunities Figure 21 | Key Constraints
Water treatment plant
Existing footpaths and Public Rights of Way Potential connections and relationships with Pollution, odour and noise from surrounding Existing mature woodland and field boundaries (PRoWs shown in bold) surrounding areas and land-uses infrastructure. County Wildlife Site (Bucket Hill Plantation Existing bridleways Existing mature woodland and vegetation Listed Buildings (Grade II) within and close to Grassland) the site Potential High Quality Public Transport Strategic Landscape Area Sensitive Relationship with existing corridor access points Protected access points for potential High employment uses Views out to countryside to south Quality Public Transport corridor Potential green corridor associated with main Potential visual impact on surrounding views north-south runway Existing buildings associated with former site Southern limit of Major Development Site uses Potential green corridors associated with (MDS) defined by Policy SS/7 other runways Existing tarmac runway. Strategic Landscape Area Existing watercourses 22 23 3 Vision & Objectives
3.1 Overview
A vision has been set out which reflects the long term aspirations for the type of place which will be created at Bourn Airfield.
The vision is supported by six key strategic objectives which set out how the vision will be achieved.
The vision and objectives have been subject to discussion with community representatives in context of the adopted Local Plan and are consistent with the adopted policy.
They have also been informed by discussions with site promoters, landowners, and other key stakeholders, as well as taking consideration of feedback received on the emerging proposals when reviewed by the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel.
24 25 A Vision for Bourn Airfield New Village Strategic Objectives 1 - A Well Connected Place Facilitating sustainable movement within the site and to and Bourn Airfield will be a distinct new South from surrounding villages, shaped around a network of traffic- free active travel routes, integrated public transport, and Cambridgeshire village acknowledging its historic delivering excellent connections along the A428 corridor to St Neots and Cambridge via a new high-quality public transport past but with its own contemporary identity. A route. diverse, yet integrated community, with a range of facilities and services to complement, not compete 2 - Vibrant, Prosperous and Inclusive Providing a range of housing types and tenures to meet the with, existing local provision. Well connected to local housing needs (including for low cost and affordable the wider area by high quality public transport and housing) and aspirations of a broad and diverse community. Meeting the educational needs of its community, with a village providing employment and homes to support the centre integrating a range of community facilities alongside convenient and independent retail, with opportunities for local Greater Cambridge economy. The village will have a employment and entrepreneurship within the site. vibrant and strong heart, supporting healthy, active and inclusive community lifestyles and providing 3 - Healthy, Active and Resilient a high quality of life for its residents in a beautiful Providing for the wellbeing of residents as an integral aspect of the village’s fabric. Encouraging walking and cycling as a contemporary landscape setting. part of daily life, offering opportunities for physical recreation and social interaction for all, and supporting access to fresh and healthy food choices. Designing spaces that encourage The village will be embedded in a network of multi- social interaction for all and supporting the residents to functional green infrastructure, which is accessible connect and form their own community. and sustainable, being integrated with the natural environment. Supporting walking, cycling and public 4 - Locally Distinctive Responding to the existing context of the site and the transport as the preferred mode of choice for travel inherited assets of the airfield and its landscape, whilst delivering a bespoke and modern built environment which for people within the new village and beyond, and includes high quality public spaces and unique and locally facilitating a move towards net zero carbon lifestyles inspired buildings, including opportunities for custom and self-build. through an innovative approach to planning, design and construction. 5 - Responsive and Sustainable Building in a manner that is responsive to climate change and sensitive to the environment. Delivering enhanced outcomes for biodiversity and hydrology, and incorporating low or net zero carbon buildings, renewable energy and low-emission travel that aim to exceed existing standards within the Local Plan.
6 - Cohesive, Well Planned and Well Governed Considering the lifetime of the village through conception, construction, completion and maturity. Utilising tools such as masterplans and design codes to manage quality, supporting community building, placemaking and community ownership models, and creating community focused governance.
26 27 4 Spatial Framework
4.1 Overview
This section establishes the key spatial elements of the new village, required to deliver the policy expectations and the vision.
The Spatial Framework Diagram establishes the broad structure for development of the new village along with the disposition of key land uses, primary movement and locational fixes. These are consistent with the Local Plan policy requirements, which requires built development to be provided within the Major Development Site.
The framework is supported by a series of guiding principles and structural fixes which are set out in chapter 5, ‘Creating the Place’.
The Spatial Framework Diagram is indicative in that the exact alignment of the routes and the precise location of buildings will be determined through the planning application process.
28 29 4.2 Spatial Framework Diagram
The overarching framework for Bourn Airfield new village is summarised below Figure 22 | Spatial Framework Diagram by theme, and spatially illustrated in the Spatial Framework Diagram opposite.
Land Use Green and Blue Infrastructure
An integrated mix of land uses that will A strong network of multifunctional green accommodate population growth within a (and blue) spaces and corridors will sustainable pattern of development. connect valuable assets, improving local links, biodiversity and deliver hydrological MDS boundary benefits.
Residential Strategic Landscape Area
Mixed Use Green Corridors and open spaces
Employment School Playing fields
Village Centre Outdoor sports facilities
Neighbourhood Hub Retained woodland / vegetation
Secondary School Proposed woodland / vegetation
Primary School Watercourse
Long views
Viewpoints
Movement and Access Historical Connections
An intelligent, multi-modal and integrated Retained site features which help to create transport network prioritising non-motorised a sense of connection with sites previous users will provide safe, sustainable airfield and rural uses. solutions for all. Retained farm and aviation buildings Figure 23 | Summary of structural fixes Strategic walking and cycling corridors A Main points of access and primary street p38 Runway park B Strategic walking and cycling connections p39 Existing footpath network C Cambridge to Cambourne High Quality Public Transport Route p40 Existing bridleway network D Village Centre and Neighbourhood Hub p44 NB. Unshaded areas within the SPD boundary Primary street retained in existing use, including Grange Farm and G Recreational walking, cycling and horse riding routes p52 properties adjacent to Broadway. H Outdoor sports and play facilities p53 Secondary street E Density and Scale p60 The spatial framework diagram is illustrative and High Quality Public Transport corridor should not be used for measuring areas. F Green edges and corridors p61
I Protected biodiversity areas and corridors p69 High Quality Public Transport stops
30 31 5 Creating the Place
5.1 Overview Guiding Principles
This section sets out a series of Guiding principles represent a range overarching guiding principles, which of ideas and concepts which should be explain how the strategic objectives should integrated into the development, but be delivered, and the key spatial fixes which allow a degree of interpretation which are required to deliver them on the and flexibility. Planning applications site where appropriate. should explain how these have been considered in future proposals. The principles and fixes are organised in accordance with the six strategic Spatial ‘Fixes’ development objectives set out in chapter 3, these are: Spatial Fixes represent key elements of place making, such as site 1. A Well Connected Place; infrastructure, which must be delivered as set out in this document. Future 2. Vibrant, Prosperous and Inclusive; planning applications must demonstrate how this has been achieved as part of 3. Healthy, Active and Resilient; future proposals.
4. Locally Distinctive;
5. Responsive and Sustainable; and
6. Cohesive, Well-planned and Well- governed.
Each objective contains a number of subheadings, which provide detail on how the objective can be met. Within these, the guiding principles and spatial fixes are outlined to steer the development.
Local plan policy and other relevant guidance is referenced in this section where appropriate, along with appropriate mechanisms to help ensure they are secured through the planning process. Any reference to standards refer to those that are in place at the time of the publication of the SPD and any successor documents that may be produced.
The Figures contained in this section are indicative and the exact alignment of routes and the precise location of buildings and land uses will be determined through the planning application process.
32 33 1 A Well Connected Place
routes, as set out in Fix A. A fundamental principle of the new village 1B An environment that promotes • High-quality, segregated (traffic-free) will be to provide excellent connectivity • A connected and permeable network of walking and cycling. cycle routes which permeate the and access for residents and visitors, by residential streets which allow a wide development, have a generous width, a range of modes, with an emphasis on range of choices of routes through the Walking and cycling are the preferred are overlooked and are well-lit at night. sustainable, low-carbon / low-emission and site for pedestrians and cyclists. mode of travel within the village and for active modes of travel - walking, cycling local trips beyond. Walking and cycling are • Other pedestrian desirelines and and public transport (Policy TI/2 and SS/7) • A defined network of on and off- sustainable, zero-emission, promote health routes through considerate alignment street walking and cycling routes and & wellbeing, and help to create a more of residential streets and provision of a 1A A street network that integrates bridleways which provide connections vibrant and socially-interactive environment. permeable network of streets. movement and place with the surrounding area, providing People who walk and cycle are more likely access to existing facilities and allowing to make linked local trips and use local • Secure, covered cycle parking in key The street network should provide a legible residents of nearby settlements to easily services, helping increase the viability locations including schools, local hierarchy of streets that forms the basic access the new facilities on the site. of facilities. Cross-site routes should be centres and public transport hubs, and structure of the village for all users and established from an early delivery stage appropriate space for cycle parking in defines the relationship between the new The layout of the street network and design to encourage residents to make active dwellings, potentially including provision village and its neighbours. of streets should have regard to Manual for travel their mode of choice from the outset. for electric bike charging (Policy TI/3). Streets. Typical walking distances of 400m (5 mins) Consideration should also be given to The design of streets should consider and 800m (10 mins) should be used to provision for off-gauge bikes to help their role in the character of the site, help assess whether facilities and public people make the switch from using the incorporating high-quality materials transport stops are within easy walking car to using cycles more. and landscapes, and should create an distance. integrated network which connects with • Safe routes to schools providing traffic open spaces, green corridors and other The new village should provide: free routes, pedestrian and cycle priority movement routes. crossings, and wider footpaths close to • Walkable neighbourhoods which are school entrances. • A realigned junction at the north western permeable, legible and have facilities access point which prioritises vehicles within walking distance. • Connections to the wider walking, entering the site and prevents access Figure 24 | Road-user hierarchy horse-riding and cycling networks, onto the Broadway for southbound traffic • People-friendly streets with a low-design particularly links to Cambourne, Bourn directly from the new village, as per speed, which are integrated with the and Highfields Caldecote and the Policy SS/7. built environment. Routes should be well surrounding rural footpath/bridleway overlooked by buildings which are in use network, in locations identified by Fix B. • Site access points from the surrounding throughout the day and evening. road network which are safe and • Contributions to the enhancement of the convenient for pedestrians and cyclists. • Generously-sized and high-quality surrounding cycle network, including spaces for pedestrians, including potential new routes that link eastward • A Primary Street which forms the spine seating suitable for all age groups, to Cambridge along the A428 corridor. of the site for all users, connecting the in key locations such as the village main site entrances and serves the centre, at public transport stops, close In addition, the development should seek village centre, as set out in Fix A. to community facilities and across the to contribute to the creation of bike-share pedestrian and footpath network. schemes serving the local area. • Secondary streets which provide direct access to other areas of the site and are • Junctions and crossings which give designed to accommodate potential bus priority to pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders including new non- motorised user crossings over Broadway References to provide safe accessibility to 1 - Manual for Streets, DfT / Communities and Local Government (2007), available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/ Cambourne. government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/341513/pdfmanforstreets.pdf
34 35 1C Access to high quality public transport • A street network which allows other 1D Managing Private and Service • Consideration to the provision of facilities bus routes to efficiently serve the site, Vehicles ‘homezones’ in low traffic streets potentially utilising the HQPT alignment prioritising use of the street for Public transport is the preferred mode of to provide direct access between the Private vehicles are the least preferred socialising and play amongst residents. travel for longer distance routes, as it is village and Upper Cambourne. mode of travel, due to their impact on lower carbon, creates less congestion, and the quality of the environment and local • Submission of a Travel Plan(s) to puts less pressure on existing highway • Local facilities and higher-density character, air quality, congestion, and road demonstrate that opportunities for infrastructure. People who use public development clustered around public safety. However, many trips will still need sustainable travel have been maximised, transport are potentially more likely to make transport and village centre and to be made by private vehicles in order to including for schools and other mixed-mode trips by walking or cycling if neighbourhood hub, to encourage and reach locations which are poorly served by community facilities, to encourage bus stops are conveniently located close to facilitate greater patronage. public transport, are too far to walk or cycle, alternative modes of travel (Policy TI/3). other local facilities. or involve transport of large items. Private • Provision of high-quality travel cars are also essential for some people to The development should also help to The proposed Cambourne to Cambridge information at stops and key public enjoy full mobility and independence. promote a move towards low-carbon and High Quality Public Transport route facilities, potentially including tailored low-emissions vehicles in order to address (HQPT) is due to have two stops in Bourn digital ‘real time’ timetabling, route Appropriate action should be taken through climate change and to help tackle the Airfield, providing future residents with the information and ticketing facilities for the design and layout of the site and impact of driving on local air quality. This opportunity to use other alternatives than residents. associated infrastructure to discourage car should include provision for electric vehicle the car to travel to Cambridge city and use for short and non-essential trips. This charging at all car parking locations, and in the longer term, St. Neots. The HQPT • Facilities to assist mixed-mode travel, should include: the provision of charging points or sockets alignment has been agreed with the GCP including ‘bike & ride’ facilities at HQPT within private dwellings and on residential and Cambridgeshire County Council to stops and appropriate waiting facilities. • Limiting traffic speed within the site streets. ensure it can be appropriately segregated to 20mph or lower by narrowing to ensure public safety and reliable and Small-scale passenger parking facilities carriageways and junctions and Design of the road network should also quicker journey times when compared could also be provided on the site adjacent incorporating appropriate traffic consider the need for service vehicles to to driving in order to encourage use. It to the HQPT stops, and preferably, where management features into the highway access all parts of the site, particularly also future proofs the Mayor’s Cambridge possible, shared parking spaces for mixed design. emergency services and refuse collection Autonomous Metro (CAM) proposals. uses to decrease impact on public realm, in vehicles. line with Policy TI/3. • Reducing the amount of car parking The new village should provide: available at local facilities. The developers will monitor traffic impacts A high-quality environment surrounding on village routes and, where necessary, • A protected route for the proposed public transport stops is essential, enforcing • Residential parking should be take appropriate action to mitigate any HQPT through the site, with two stops low traffic speeds and ease of crossing. The accommodated through a range of traffic impacts with traffic calming and other located in convenient locations for use, public realm should provide places to sit integrated on-plot, parking court and measures. at locations identified by Fix C. and shelter from the elements. on-street solutions. This should be designed as part of the total streetscape, Phasing should ensure that public transport minimising visual and public amenity provision is incorporated from first impact whilst aiding management of Figure 26 | Electric vehicle charging point occupation. traffic. Parking should be designed in Figure 25 | Public Transport accordance with the guidelines set out in Policy TI/3 and the associated table at Figure 11: Parking Provision, with an aspiration for low car ownership.
• Limiting the number of through-routes for private vehicles, particularly within residential areas.
• Giving priority to other users, including through frequent formal and informal pedestrian crossings.
36 37 A Main Points of Access and Primary 3 Enhancement to the existing junction B Strategic walking and cycling • Connections to Highfields Caldecote, Street of St Neots Road and the Broadway, connections including footpaths through the incorporating physical measures to woodland on this edge of the site, The site will be accessed from two points restrict the ability of northbound traffic The site will have a network of routes which providing access to Furlong Way and at the eastern and western edges of the to make a U turn at the junction to head incorporate infrastructure for active travel, Grafton Drive. Routes through woodland site identified on the plan below. This will south on the Broadway towards Bourn to include: areas should be sensitively designed include creating new or enhanced junctions village. and lit. to provide appropriate highway capacity and • A shared pedestrian and cycle route safe pedestrian / cycle access to the site as 4 A new junction on the Broadway which along both sides of the primary street • A long-distance route associated with follows: allows the HQPT and pedestrian / cycle and secondary streets, except where the proposed HQPT route, running route priority crossing into Cambourne. a parallel traffic-free route is provided parallel to the route through the site, 1 A western access from the Broadway directly alongside. and with secure cycle facilities provided which reconfigures the existing highway The development will create a primary at each stop. to provide priority to the primary street street linking the main access points, which • Segregated pedestrian and cycle routes entering the site and ensure there must: should also be included to ensure an • Connections to the existing bridleway will be no direct vehicular access for inclusive design and safety for blind and running along the southern edge of southbound traffic from the new village. • Serve the village centre and provide partially sighted people. the site, with enhancement to existing The detailed design should explore the direct vehicle access to the existing paths that link the site with Bourn and use of physical islands to prevent traffic employment site. • Provision of walking, cycling and Highfields Caldecote. movements to the south. horse riding routes suitable for all non- • Be aligned and configured to provide motorised users within the site’s green Appropriate signage and interpretation 2 Enhancement to the existing a key role in the pedestrian and cycle corridors identified on the plan. boards including distances / time to roundabout on St Neots Road, ensuring movement network. destinations. the HQPT route can travel through • Connections to the existing footpath without hindrance by queuing traffic. • Be supported by a network of secondary network surrounding Cambourne (at Routes must be fully accessible to people streets to provide access to and the locations shown), connections with with disabilities who are using mobility aids legibility within the wider site. residential streets in Cambourne, and such as mobility scooters, adapted cycles appropriate crossing points over the and wheelchairs. Broadway. Recreational routes for walking, cycling and Figure 27 | Main points of access and primary street Figure 28 | Strategic walking and cycling connections horseriding are set out Guiding Principles 3A and Fix E.
38 39 C Cambourne to Cambridge High • Provide a stop to serve the existing Quality Public Transport route and stops employment site. 2 Vibrant, Prosperous and Inclusive
The new village will incorporate a corridor Stops should be designed to be user for the proposed HQPT Route which friendly including: will pass through the site, along with It is essential that the new village has its • A range of community facilities, the provision of sites for two stops. The • Shelter for waiting passengers. own sense of public life and community: a including spaces for teenagers, schools proposals must: place where people live, work, learn and and early years child care. • Real-time information. socialise, which provides for residents’ • Provide for a largely segregated changing needs throughout their lives, and • Facilities for agile / home working, alignment as shown on the plan, subject • Wifi hotspots. for residents with different incomes, abilities potentially including a co-working hub. to detailed discussion with Greater and needs. Cambridge Partnership. • Signage to the walking and cycling • Digital connectivity including high-speed routes and key destinations within and Proposals for the new village should be broadband and 5G data connectivity. • Provide for the operating needs of beyond the site. able to demonstrate how it incorporates the a rapid transit service, with limited concept of a ‘lifetime neighbourhood’ which • Employment opportunities that are interruption by other modes of travel, • Provision for secure and safe cycle provides for residents at different stages integrated with the surrounding continuous 55mph travel between stops, parking which is prominent and easy to of life and would allow them to comfortably development, including integration of and a minimum corner radii of 100m. access. remain in their community without the need the existing employment areas and new to move away to meet their changing needs. small premises for local entrepreneurs. • Provide a segregated combined walking • Car parking for disabled users near to and cycling path with a minimum 3m the stop. • Redevelopment of the vacant and width alongside the route. 2A Mixed Use Neighbourhoods underutilised land within the existing employment site to provide premises for • Include potential to integrate with other The new village should be a mixed-use Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), local bus routes if possible. community, providing places to live and including enhanced integration and work within close proximity and providing a connectivity with the new village. • Provide a stop adjacent to the village range of community facilities and services, centre. in order to create a vibrant place that is • A mixed-use extension to the existing busy throughout the day and which provides employment site, potentially to include a Figure 29 | Public transport routes and stops opportunities for interaction across the hotel and associated facilities alongside social spectrum. small scale employment uses, which is carefully integrated with the site, HQPT The new village should include: stop and primary street.
• A wide range of housing types and • A mixed use area to the north west of tenures throughout the site, including the Village Centre to include residential affordable housing and specialist and residential compatible uses such housing for older people. as specialist care accommodation, residential care home, nursing home, • A range of housing density, with higher hotel, and small scale offices, which densities clustered around the village is carefully integrated with the Village centre, neighbourhood hub and public Centre and HQPT stop and primary transport stops. street.
• Retail premises including a small Opportunities to mix-uses vertically should supermarket and a range of other units be considered, including providing flats with space for small and temporary/pop- above retail and commercial premises up premises for local entrepreneurs. within the village centre.
• Food & drink premises, including places which are open in the evening and potentially including a local pub.
40 41 Proposals should ensure that the design H/10: Affordable Housing) unless it can 2C Social Infrastructure and Opportunities should be considered to of buildings will facilitate adaption and/ or be demonstrated that an exception Neighbourhood Hub co-locate facilities or for facilities to share change of use to appropriate alternative should be made. infrastructure or staff. This could include uses in the future, particularly on primary The new village will provide a range of provision for community-led retail, cafés routes through the site and on key corners • Dwellings that meet or exceed community facilities that are accessible or other entrepreneurial activity to share and/ or key active locations. residential space standards, as set to both residents and visitors from the spaces and staff with public and community out in ‘Policy H/12: Residential Space surrounding area. buildings. Standards’. Where possible, a synergy should be Community development workers will have 2B Amount of housing and range of • Housing for older people, through sought between different uses and the an important role in providing the necessary housing types and tenures opportunities for ‘downsizing’ to smaller contribution that they make to the character support to the new residents as they move properties, assisted living and communal and vibrancy of the village. This should into the new development, helping to foster Local Plan Policy SS/7 provides that the housing for older people. 5% of homes include ensuring that, as appropriate to community relations. new village will deliver approximately 3,500 should be constructed to the accessible their purpose, community infrastructure and dwellings. However, the final number of and adaptable dwellings M4(2) standard local facilities are: dwellings will be determined through a (Policy H/9). design-led approach and be appropriate to • Co-located within or close to the village creating a high-quality community which • Dwellings that are design to support centre and the Neighbourhood Hub to can support a range of local facilities. The home-working. contribute to the vibrancy and character new village should provide: of the village and the viability of retail • Opportunities for co-housing businesses, as set in Fix D. • An average density of 40 dwellings per development and build to rent. hectare (Policy H/8) • Located in accessible and convenient • Opportunities in each phase of the locations, close to public transport and • A range of house types, tenures and development for self-build, custom build active travel infrastructure, to allow for sizes to meet the needs of different and modular build development models, linked trips. groups in the community in accordance potentially creating a custom-build with Policy S/2 and the criteria set out in community within the site (Policy H/9). • Designed to be prominent and Policy H/9, ranging from single bedroom recognisable features within the village, flats through to large family houses. • Dwellings that are designed to allow forming landmark buildings and key future adaptation, enabling partial frontages where appropriate. • 40% affordable housing of a tenure conversion, extension or change of use, mix determined at the time of granting to provide opportunities for working at planning permission (as set out in Policy home and small commercial enterprise, outlined in Policy H/18. Figure 31 | Village Centre example
Figure 30 | Co-housing for older people (Source: resilience.org)
42 43 D Village Centre and Neighbourhood Hub floor uses to ensure animation of the public The public realm must be designed and 2 The Neighbourhood Hub: realm, including the northern end of the managed to facilitate a range of uses. The new village will include a village centre Runway Park. The neighbourhood hub will provide a small and a smaller neighbourhood hub, as Social and Community Facilities: Primary range of facilities in the southern area of identified on the plan below. Buildings typically 4 storeys in height, school and secondary school close the village where residents are more than a providing a sense of urban enclosure to village centre; community centre, circa 10 minute walk away from the village 1 The Village Centre: around streets and public spaces, with nursery, place of worship, post box and centre, in order to provide access to basic scope for 5 storey landmark buildings in key gym. Potential to locate specialist care needs and create a focal point within this A focal point of the new settlement, within locations, which should be of high quality accommodation close to or within the part of the site. a 10 minute walk of most residents and design. village centre. providing for many of the day-to-day needs Location: Close to the south-eastern corner of residents. It should have the following Larger footprint units should be ‘wrapped’ Retail Facilities and other uses: of the site, serving areas which are further features: with finer grain uses to create active Opportunities for employment, a range of from the Village Centre. Co-located with frontages to avoid creating inactive edges retail units, including a small supermarket the primary school, secondary street, green Location: as close to centre of the site as unwelcoming spaces within the public appropriate to a Rural Centre Village centre corridors and surrounding public open practicable, ideally within 800m walking realm. (Policy E/22), with residential/employment spaces. distance of most of the site. Co-located uses above shops. Food and drink units, with the primary street, HQPT stop, Runway Focussed around a village/market square including potential pub/bar, restaurant and Built Environment and Public Realm: Park and other community facilities. and ‘high street’ environment. café uses. Other uses subject to scale, Formed around the secondary street, grain and compatibility with a village / with frontage onto adjacent public open Built Environment and Public Realm: A fine The alignment of the primary street to serve neighbourhood centre location. spaces. Potential for buildings of a scale grain of buildings and uses will contribute the centre should be carefully considered which stand out from the surrounding lower to the sense of activity and variety and help in order to facilitate a distinctive townscape Car parking for retail and other uses should density residential areas in this part of the to create a relationship between the mix environment and encourage slower traffic be carefully integrated with the village site. of uses and character. This should include speeds. centre and should not dominate the public flats and other uses above active ground realm. Entrances to retail units should be Facilities: Primarily driven by social/ directly from the public realm rather than community facilities and relationship with from car parking areas. landscape/open space;
Figure 32 | Location of village centre and Uses: Potential for modest retail and food neighbourhood hub and drink premises, community meeting places (potentially associated with Primary School), subject to not undermining viability of primary centre, and small scale employment uses.
Figure 33 | Example of a social space for people to meet, work and/or relax
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44 45 2D Inclusive Access • Streets and other routes are safe for independent use by all age ranges and 3 Healthy, Active and Resilient The new village should ensure that its abilities, and are well lit and comfortable facilities, houses and public spaces are during the hours of darkness. accessible to all of its residents and visitors, going above and beyond Building • The incorporation of ‘dementia-friendly’ The physical design of the village, its This should include: Regulations standards for accessibility design principles designed to ease buildings and the facilities it provides can where possible. decision-making; reduce agitation and have a significant impact on the health and • A network of bridleways and paths distress; encourage independence and wellbeing of residents, helping to provide suitable for all non-motorised users In particular, this should ensure: social interaction; promote safety; and opportunities for exercise, give access to through and around the village which enabling activities of daily living. fresh and healthy food, and support active allow recreational walking, including • The public realm includes level-access social lives, all within an environment that space for walking dogs off lead, cycling and step-free routes throughout and feels safe and secure. A full Health Impact and horse-riding and which connect incorporates comfortable places to rest. Assessment will be required as part of any with the surrounding public footpath and planning application for the site, as set bridleway network, as set out in Fix E. • Primary means of access for all public out in Policy SC/2. This will ensure that buildings are step free. Public facilities any proposals contribute positively to the • Routes connecting with Cambourne, located on upper floors are accessible health and wellbeing of new and existing Bourn and Highfields Caldecote and the by lift. residents. network of recreational paths and Public Rights of Ways (PRoWs) within and • Appropriate tactile facilities for blind and surrounding the settlements. partially-sighted people are provided throughout, and public facilities and 3A Recreational walking, cycling and • Contribution to the enhancement of services are designed to be accessible riding existing footpaths and bridleways to blind and partially sighted people. surrounding the site. Walking and cycling should form a part of • Provision of ‘blue badge‘ accessible residents’ everyday lifestyles as a central • Contribution to the creation of new rural parking spaces close to the entrances part of physical and emotional wellbeing. footpaths, walking and riding routes of all public facilities and in appropriate Whilst active travel (set out in section 1) is surrounding the site where possible. locations within the village centre. essential to this, a network of traffic-free, landscaped routes for recreational walking, The quality of routes and the environment • Provision of adaptable housing suitable horse riding and cycling should be provided surrounding them should be a key for changes in lifestyle / personal to ensure that residents can easily be active consideration in the design of the circumstances. during their leisure time. recreational movement network.
Figure 35 | Routes for recreational horse riding
Figure 34 | Example of an inclusive and accessible space
46 47 3B Access to natural environments • Protect and enhance sensitive 3C Designing for children in which the driver feels like a guest. ecological assets, in particular Bucket Opportunities for children to play are Access to the natural environment can have Hill Plantation Grassland CWS. Access The new village must be designed to be increased in these spaces also. Care a significant impact on personal wellbeing. and routes through woodland should be inclusive, considering how children perceive must been taken to ensure homezone Potential for residents to have access to carefully designed minimise impact of and use the environment. It should allow streets are accessible to blind and natural environments on a daily basis, public access. and encourage children to play and move partially sighted people. including views from buildings, and access around outdoors to improve their contact to fresh air and natural daylight, should be • Ensure that all buildings and homes with nature, their health and wellbeing and • Access to play facilities include a mix considered in all aspects of design. have a high standard of natural their independence. This can be facilitated of formal and informal areas, including daylighting and openable windows. by the following measures: Neighbourhood Equipped Areas of Play The new village should: The siting and design of community (NEAPs), Local Areas of Equipped buildings, educational facilities and • Safe Routes to School (SRTS)1 is an Play (LEAPs), Local Landscaped Area • Have a wide range of natural work places should consider the desire evidence-based approach which seeks for Play, Space for Imaginative Play environments built into the fabric of its to provide views of open spaces and to provide safe and attractive walking (SIPs) and Local Areas of Play (LAPs), open spaces. This should include trees greenery. and cycling opportunities to school. The as required by Policy SC/7. Each play and landscaping in most streets, and new village should include SRTS, in the space should be design-led and specific larger open spaces with naturalistic • Include green walls and roofs as an context of the wider network of footpaths for its location integrating landscape, environmental features within 400m walk element of key buildings. and cycle paths for residents in line with play equipment and natural play features of all houses. Policy TI/2: Planning for Sustainable offering a wide variety of activities/ Travel, providing that development challenges in accordance with “Design • Facilitate and encourage access to should be designed to reduce the need for Play: A Guide to Creating Successful existing natural environments including to travel by car. Play Spaces”2. the woodlands around the eastern edges of the site and the wider countryside via • Low traffic speeds / homezone. The Any facilities should be located within or connections to footpaths and bridleways. inclusion of homezone in the new immediately adjacent to residential areas village can contribute to reducing the to benefit from natural surveillance and dominance of cars in streets through the proximity to walking and cycling routes, and Figure 36 | Creating natural environments for recreation implementation of design features such co-located with public transport and other as level carriageways, shared surfaces, trip generating uses / facilities to encourage landscaping and traffic calming linked trips. measures. These spaces encourage people to use streets differently, to slow down vehicles, open up road space and create a place suitable for social uses Figure 37 | Equipped play area integrated with landscape and built form, Cambridge
References 1 - Safe Routes to School guidance, Sustrans (2018), available at: https://www.sustrans.org.uk/sites/default/files/file_content_type/ srts_guidance_2018-19_1.pdf
2 - Designing for Play, Play England (2008), available at http://playengland.org.uk/media/70684/design-for-play.pdf
48 49 3D Outdoor and indoor sports provision • The Cambridge City Council and 3E Tackling social isolation 3F Access to healthy food South Cambridge District Council The new village will be required to provide ‘Indoor Sports Facilities Strategy’2, The new village must be designed so that In order to provide access to healthy food, high-quality spaces for outdoor sports which considers the development of the opportunities and places to socialise are promote healthy eating habits and support are well integrated and accessible, creating new village as part of its review. The created. Well thought out public spaces other healthy lifestyle choices, the village opportunities for play and recreation. The report calculates the requirements for allow people to meet in planned and should: Local Plan outlines the importance of these additional indoor facilities which the new unplanned ways and to interact with others. spaces to support healthy lifestyles and village will generate, including sports An example of this is how allotments and • Should provide opportunities for a improve physical and mental wellbeing. halls, swimming and indoor bowls. community orchards can bring together range of shops selling fresh fruit and The location of outdoor sports facilities is Given the scale of the village and the people of all age groups and a wide variety vegetables within the village. identified by Fix F. availability of sports provision nearby, of social backgrounds. They promote e.g. Cambourne, it is not considered contact and cooperation based on a • Support a regular farmers market • Policy SC/7: Outdoor Play Space, appropriate to provide a purpose-built common interest. Providing space for local providing freshly grown local produce, Informal Open Space and New indoor swimming or sports hall facility in community groups and clubs can assist including appropriately designed and developments, in the South the village, but developers would need in reducing social isolation as they help managed public spaces to facilitate this. Cambridgeshire Local Plan and South to support appropriate provision nearby create feelings of belonging within the new Cambridgeshire District Council’s through S106 contributions. community. • Provide space for allotments, orchards ‘Open Space in New Developments’ and community gardens at a number Supplemantary Planning Document1, • It is common practice in South Tackling social isolation can be achieved of locations within the site, with some sets out that 1.6ha of outdoor sports Cambridgeshire for there to be dual by ensuring Guiding Principles of ‘A smaller gardens integrated with provision should be provided per 1,000 use of secondary school sports pitches. Well Connected Place’ and ‘Strong and residential areas and larger garden people. Whilst much of this is expected The Council and the Local Education Independent Identity’ are applied, so people areas outside the Major Development to be in the form of formal sports pitches Authority (LEA) would encourage this do not feel physically disconnected and Site. Space for allotments and with associated changing and ancillary at Bourn Airfield. Shared and dual use enabling people to establish meaningful neighbourhood spaces for community amenities, provision must be accessible of sports facilities at schools, including relationships within the new village and growing must be included in accordance and inclusive and meet the needs of a pitches and changing rooms should in neighbouring settlements. To promote with the standards set out in Policy SC/7 range of users. This should be catered be explored with the school provider. inclusion the new village should include: (0.4ha per 1,000 people). for throughout the site, including for Where this is proposed, the applicants example, trim-trails, multi-use games will be required to demonstrate that • Allotments and community orchards in Allotments and community orchards areas (MUGAs), outdoor gyms and such agreements with the LEA can be accordance with the guidelines in Policy increase people’s awareness about food spaces suitable for running or cycle delivered. SC/7. and how it is made and grown, encourage sports. people to eat more fresh vegetables and Areas identified as outdoor sports provision • A well designed public square in the fruit and offer dietary benefits at low cost should provide facilities for a range of village centre, with spaces to sit, play to people on low incomes with poor access sports, potentially including tennis and and with opportunities to eat and drink. to store-bought produce. Allotments and bowls courts. Open spaces and recreational community gardens can promote community paths should include trim-trails and marked • Open spaces which encourage activity interaction and mental wellbeing, as well as out jogging routes. and social interaction, with seating and being a source of outdoor recreation. play equipment. Farmers markets provide access to heathy • Community buildings and meeting food and local produce, and can help places, either shared with schools or promote community interaction. Research1 independent. suggests that people who buy food at the farmers’ market have 10 times more • Integration of specialist housing or care conversations than they would have at a facilities close to the village centre to supermarket. prevent isolation.
References 1 - The Open Space in New Developments SPD (2009) was adopted by the Council to provide guidance to support previously adopted Development Plan Documents that have now been superseded by the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018. This document is still a material consideration when making planning decisions, with the weight in decision making to be determined having regard to consistency with national planning guidance and the adopted Local Plan 2018. References 2 - Available at: https://www.scambs.gov.uk/media/3445/final_indoor_sports_facility_strategy_2016_rd-csf-200_revised.pdf 1 - Project for Public Space: https://www.pps.org/category/public-markets
50 51 E Recreational walking, cycling and • Routes should be constructed to a multi- F Provision for outdoor sports Sports provision should be provided in two horse riding routes user standard for all users and include primary locations within the site: appropriate access controls, surfaces, To meet full requirements Policy SC/7 Signposted routes for recreational walking, mounting blocks, sight lines and safe approximately 15.7ha of outdoor sports 1 A formal area of sports pitches cycling and horse riding will be as follows: road crossing designs. facilities should be provided and broadly at potentially including flood-lighting and the locations shown on Figure 48. artificial / all-weather sports pitches, with • A circular walking and cycling route • Circular routes within and around the provision of changing facilities. around the edges of the village edges of the village, incorporating The Council and the Local Education and connections to existing green routes and areas of walking dogs off Authority (LEA) would encourage dual / 2 Formal outdoor sports provision to the infrastructure networks in surrounding lead. shared use of sports pitches with schools at south western edge of the site, which settlements. Bourn Airfield. Formal sports provision can could include provision for cricket. A network of footpaths and cycle routes for include sports fields and facilities provided • Horse riding routes through key strategic movement is set out in Fix B. with the secondary and primary schools green corridors as shown on the plan, where agreed with future school provider(s). connecting with the existing bridleway on the southern edge of the site, If dual / shared use of the school pitches and providing onward connections is agreed with the school provider(s) to surrounding bridleways and lanes the hatched areas may, subject to an surrounding the site where possible. The assessment of local need, be used for network should provide potential circular alternative uses, including residential. routes around the site.
Figure 38 | Recreational walking, cycling and horse riding Figure 39 | Provision for outdoor sports
52 53 • Provide a gradient of density which 4C Scale, Height and Massing 4 Locally Distinctive reinforces the village centre as a focal point within the village, and to a lesser A varied scale of buildings should be extent the neighbourhood hub, reducing used to help create and shape character around the fringes of these places. throughout the site, helping to identify The new village should be developed to 4B Built Character key locations, define important edges a high standard of design and layout and • Include modern, innovative and original and enclose open spaces. The following be distinctive to its locality; a landscape- The appearance of buildings within the design where appropriate, including principles should be applied: led development, with a character which is new village and their contribution to the design which showcases sustainable rooted in the local area but which addresses village’s townscape will form a key part of and innovative architectural features. • The village centre should include taller contemporary needs. The way in which its character. The design of all buildings, buildings of up to four storeys in height spaces and buildings are used will help to from individual houses through to significant • Include gateway features at key site in order to create a sense of enclosure contribute to a distinctive identity, shaped public buildings, play a role in this. entrances, potentially including a around focal areas of public realm, to by and responsive to its population. Proposals should: landmark hotel building within the distinguish the centre from surrounding eastern mixed-use area. residential areas, and to facilitate higher • Include and be shaped by townscape densities close to public facilities. In and landscape characterisation studies • Integrate existing and proposed some instances buildings with elements 4A Responding to Context exploring the character of surrounding employment uses in the north east of up to 5 storeys high may be appropriate settlements and explaining how the new the site with the surrounding village, in key locations subject to detailed The physical environment should be shaped village responds to this. with consideration to scale of buildings, design. by the existing surrounding context, creating townscape legibility and street a place which is rooted in the local area. • Incorporate materials and features which frontages. • Buildings of up to three and four storeys This should include: are typical of the area. may be appropriate at key locations on the primary street, and along the edges • Routes which connect with the existing • Create a fine grain built environment of key areas of open space, in order network of lanes and paths which with a townscape and roofscape which to create a sense of urban enclosure surround the site. is varied and visually interesting. and to define these locations from surrounding residential areas. • Incorporating and respecting inherited • Position buildings to enclose and define assets including listed buildings and the the public realm and open spaces, and Figure 40 | Distinctive and locally inspired building • The scale of buildings should follow a WWII airfield heritage. contribute to the sense of legibility styles, Cambridge gradient away from the village centre throughout the site. and main street with a maximum of two • Responding to topography, views and storey buildings located around the structural landscape features on the site • Ensure that buildings and blocks are edges of the site, as shown identified in and in the surrounding area such as laid-out to create active frontages on Fix G. the woodland areas, shallow valley, and streets and key edges, provide natural watercourses. surveillance over the public realm, and • The location of individual buildings limit access and views to the private which stand out from their neighbours Contextual design should not negate the backs of buildings. in terms of scale and form should be opportunity to create a distinctive and positioned to mark corners and other modern development which responds to • Consist of identifiable character areas key locations within the scheme to aid contemporary sustainability, climate change within the new village, each with its own legibility. and resilience criteria. consistent physical characteristics and each distinct from each other, aiding • The mixed-use areas in the north east legibility and wayfinding within the new and north west of the site could include village and contributing to the identity of a hotel of up to 4 storeys, where this is each neighbourhood. designed to form a distinctive landmark feature.
54 55 The impact of building height and massing 4D Streets and Public Realm 4E Open Spaces and Landscape on views into the site should be considered, Character including long distance views, and subject The quality of streets and public realm Figure 42 | Primary street with integrated car to detailed landscape and visual impact will form a key part of the character of the The new village will be integrated parking and street trees assessment. village. This should include: with its landscape, incorporating and enhancing existing features and creating Where buildings are of a scale which • Use of townscape and streetscape an encompassing network of landscaped causes them to stand out in the built design to create a hierarchy of streets green, natural and multi-functional open environment they should be of an which aids legibility and wayfinding, with spaces within and surrounding new exceptional design standard which clear distinction between streets which development. The quantity and quality of responds appropriately to their prominence, play a key role in the movement network open space is key to creating a healthy and visibility and context. Developers should and those which serve and are primarily successful village, and should include: consider whether a design competition for used by local residents. landmark buildings might be appropriate. • A new linear park utilising the alignment • Distinctive and bespoke design of the of the main north-south runway public realm in key locations and at key associated with the former airfield, nodes within the movement network, providing a key axis for movement including in the village centre and local within the village, incorporating play and hubs as set out in Fix D. recreational facilities, and incorporating Figure 43 | Distinctive public realm, landscape and long views towards the landscapes to street furniture, Lovedon Fields, Winchester • Provision of soft landscape, including the south of the site. street trees, as a key driver of environmental quality and identity within • The strategic landscape areas all appropriate streets. (shown on Figure 43) will help create a landscape setting for the village, • Designing for low traffic speeds in mitigate the impact of the new village on residential streets, creating places surrounding landscape areas and limit where residents can safely play and the sense of coalescence with adjacent socialise. settlements.
• Incorporating public art in key public • A significant landscaped, potentially realm locations. bunded, buffer along the northern edge of the site should be provided to reduce • Avoiding following a standardised the visual, noise and air quality impacts approach to highway design. of the A428 on the development. Figure 44 | Public realm with integrated Figure 41 | Larger scale buildings landscape, Cambridge • A Country Park landscape within the strategic landscape area to the south of the new village, incorporating a range of naturalistic landscape features and habitats, and recreational walking, cycling and horse riding routes, informal play space and facilities, and sustainable urban drainage.
56 57 • A network of green corridors and other 4F Integrating inherited assets • Protection and enhancement of existing • Woodland management must be open spaces which are within easy mature woodlands and shallow valley carefully considered and implemented to walking distance of all residents, and The site contains various heritage assets feature within the site and around the ensure limited disturbance to potential which provide a connected, accessible that can be utilised to create a sense of site’s boundaries as multi-functional roost features of Barbastelle bats. network of green spaces both around place for future residents and visitors. The spaces, allowing public access and the edges of the site and penetrating potential to create a parkland within the activity and improving ecological through it. The network of open spaces footprints of the existing runway corridors, diversity. is set out in Fix H. exploiting views created by the breaks in surrounding tree lines particularly to • Incorporation of existing hedgerows and • Formal and informal play features the south should be explored and any other vegetation within the site where should be designed to contribute to the archaeological assets should be retained appropriate. character of landscaped open spaces within open space where possible to and should incorporate natural play enhance the character of green spaces. • Consideration of the existing ‘country and integration with landscape where lane’ character of the Broadway, and the possible. Details of play space provision The arrangement and height of buildings potential value of retaining this. are set out under Guiding Principle 3C. and streets should seek to maximise the extensive views available of the countryside • Proposed sports pitches should be to the south and not dominate any strategic designed to carefully integrate with the historical sightlines or landmark buildings in surrounding landscape and should be the surrounding area. designed to create a part of a parkland character where appropriate. More The site has a number of existing features Figure 45 | Overview of a section of the existing runway intensive sports provision including which should where possible be preserved any artificial pitches and facilities and/or incorporated into the development with floodlights should be focussed in in order to protect existing character and the northern part of the site. Details contribute to the distinctiveness of the new of sports provision are set out under village. This should include: Guiding Principle 3D and Fix F. • Retention of some features of the • Public art in key open space locations, existing airfield such as the alignments potentially providing interpretation of the of runways. site’s history. Public art could potentially include sculptural play equipment. • Incorporating the main north-south runway as a linear public park and • An integrated approach to landscape preserve key views to the south, which design which incorporates green and are identified as having significance in blue infrastructure, movement, play and relation to the use of the airfield. recreation into an attractive and multi- functional landscape. • Introduction of memorial/interpretive features, public art and heritage trails to • Requirements of open spaces in relation recognise and link the development to to environmental sustainability is the set its past use. out in Guiding Principles section 5. • Consideration of the setting of adjacent listed buildings, and intervisiblity between new development and existing listed buildings on Broadway and associated with Grange Farm.
58 59 G Density and height Higher density – Typically 3 and 4 storeys, H Green Edges and Corridors 2 Western Edge - Provision of a 30m including a more urban built for with buffer from Broadway incorporating The village will have a gradient of density strong continuity and enclosure, apartment The edges of the site will create a strong existing highway edge vegetation and ranging from higher density close to the buildings and terraced townhouses. 5 storey setting for the village, helping to mitigate informal open space, with enhanced village centre, along the primary street landmark buildings may be appropriate in the impact of the development on the woodland planting to filter views into and runway park and at the north-eastern key locations subject to detailed design. surrounding area, and helping to retain the site from Broadway. Where existing gateway, reducing to a lower density on a sense of separation from neighbouring houses and other private property forms the southern and eastern edges. The Medium density – Typically 2 and 3 storeys, settlements. No built development shall the edge of Broadway, a green corridor of average net density across the site will be including a mixed built form with some take place outside the major development not less than 15m should be provided to approximately 40 dwellings per hectare apartments and townhouses. site. allow continuity. (dph). Low density – Typically 2 storeys, creating Green edges will be provided in accordance 3 Eastern Edge - Provision of a Density should broadly accord with the plan a less urban built form, a less enclosed built with Policy SS/7 as follows: buffer including land within the Major below, and which densities areas set out as character and more detached buildings. Development Site, to include new and follows. 1 Northern Edge - Provision of a buffer enhanced woodland planting to create a from the edge of the A428 to the nearest continuous woodland buffer of at least residential properties, school premises 30m in width to fully screen views between and playing fields of between 50m the village and adjacent properties. An and 100m in width, subject to detailed additional strategic landscape area with assessment. A generous landscape naturalistic and park landscape elements corridor, forming a continuation of the is to be created alongside the new and landscape on the northern edge of enhanced woodland, providing further Cambourne, including structural tree landscape setting to the new village, and shrub planting, air quality and noise and ensuring separation from Highfields mitigation. Caldecote to the east.
Figure 46 | Density and Height Figure 47 | Green edges and corridors
60 61 4 Southern edge - Provision of a 15m the landscape to the south, and should buffer from existing woodland along the include interpretation of the site’s history 5 Responsive and Sustainable southern edge of the MDS. New hedgerow as an WWII airfield. and planting strip to define site boundaries adjacent to the retained Grange Farm Valley corridor - An informal and Strategy under the provisions of Policy CC/1 area. naturalistic landscape following the route In November 2018 SCDC committed to and Policies CC/3 and CC/4 which set out of the watercourse and shallow valley supporting the transition to zero carbon standards for all development to achieve, 5 Employment site edge - Provision of a which runs in the site, containing the by 2050. Whilst this is clearly a matter to while policy SS/7 sets out a requirement new or enhanced hedgerow planting buffer block of woodland at the northern end of be addressed through the next Local Plan, for proposals to exceed these policies. between the existing employment site and the watercourse, with a minimum width all possible opportunities will be taken to This objective will focus on environmental proposed surrounding development, which of 60m. The corridor continues along the secure enhanced sustainability measures sustainability and resilience. Other issues may incorporate noise bunding, except western edge of the larger woodland area, in developments already allocated in the relating to sustainable movement are where opportunities exist to create urban allowing a 30m buffer from the edge of adopted Local Plan. covered under ‘A Well Connected Place’ frontage onto surrounding streets. the canopies to the nearest residential objectives. properties. The planning of the new village should Strategic landscaping will be provided on contribute to reductions in greenhouse The objectives and targets set out in the southern and eastern edges of the site Southern green link - An east-west green gas emissions, minimise vulnerability and the site-wide Sustainability Strategy will as follows: corridor (running between edges 2 and provide resilience to the impacts of climate be reviewed for each key phase of the 3) with an informal landscape character, change, and deliver renewable and low development to ensure that the proposals A Country Park - Provision of a Country minimum width 30m, incorporating the carbon energy systems. To achieve this, a keep up to date with national policy and Park landscape in the area to the south small block of woodland in the south site wide approach must be taken for the changes in technology and sustainable of the new village, incorporating a eastern corner of the site with a 10m development of the new village and where building practices. naturalistic landscape, water bodies and buffer from the edge of tree canopied to necessary, transcend the boundary area. wetland landscapes, and a network of the nearest development. Policy SS/7 states that the Bourn Airfield informal paths and naturalistic playscapes. development “will deliver an example of Diagonal green link - A diagonal green excellence in sustainable development and B Woodland and Bucket Hill Plantation - corridor (running between edges 1 and healthier living” and “will incorporate and Retain and enhance the existing mature 3) with an informal landscape character, deliver opportunities to exceed sustainable woodland and habitat areas, sensitively minimum width 30m, corridor runs design and construction standards integrating woodland walks. Provision of between school playing fields and sports established by the Local Plan.” In line with an additional 15m buffer from the edge pitches at its northern leg, and forms part this, any proposals will need to consider: of the existing woodland and Bucket Hill of the recreation field in this location. Plantation County Wildlife Site. • The UKCP18 Climate Change Employment site link - A formal green Projections. C North East Green Gap - Provision of landscape which creates a legible and an undeveloped area which contributes direct route through the employment • Increased renewable energy generation to a sense of a rural gap between Bourn site, providing a link between the eastern and grid decarbonisation. Airfield and Highfield Caldecote, to include HQPT stop / mixed use area and the naturalistic and park landscape elements, residential areas to the south. • The use of integrated renewable energy tree planting and playscape compatible systems, energy storage and smart grid with the countryside edge. Green corridors and edges will include technology. active travel routes, recreational open Green corridors will be provided as follows: spaces, sustainable drainage and new / • The emergence of electric vehicles and retained habitat areas, as set out in Guiding autonomous transport. Runway Park corridor - A formal linear Principles sections 1, 3 and 5. park landscape following the alignment • Relevant policies and guidance such as of the existing north-south main Bourn UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Airfield runway, with a minimum width of (2017) and Future Building Regulations 50m, narrowing where the park meets for example. the village centre. Runway park will be designed to incorporate and celebrate Applicants are required to submit a the identified long-distance views over Sustainability Statement, Renewable Energy Statement and a Water Conservation
62 63 5A Biodiversity and Habitats • Connect existing habitats with new 5B Flood risk and resilience 5C Integrating sustainable drainage biodiversity corridors, including new The new village must ensure that existing areas of native planting. The site falls within Flood Zone 1 and Sustainable Drainage (SuDs) should be biodiversity and habitats are retained where is therefore considered to have a low provided to ensure that the development possible and that opportunities are taken • Restore and implement ongoing probability of flooding. does not exacerbate the risk of surface to secure enhancements and/or form new management of Bucket Hill Plantation water flooding within the local hydrological habitats to achieve an overall net gain. Any Grassland CWS. Whilst flood risk does not limit development network, as set out in Policy CC/8. SuDs development proposal will be expected to on any part of the site, development can also improve the quality of water in achieve an overall net gain by: • Design, manage and maintain public close to the existing water course which the water table and local watercourses, in open spaces, sustainable drainage runs through the site should be avoided. particular Bourn Brook. The new village • Minimise and mitigate the impacts of features, allotments and orchards to Provision of new landscape and other should provide: noise, light and human disturbance on secure biodiversity gains. infrastructure close to the watercourse the environment and protected species should be designed to avoid creating risk of • A site-wide network of SuDs features by appropriate layout, lighting design • Incorporate bat and bird nesting/ localised flooding. which mimics the natural catchment and management of access to the most roosting facilities into the built fabric of processes of the site as much as ecologically sensitive environments the village and ensure management of The design and siting of the new possible, manages the flow of water within and beyond the site boundary. wooded areas and trees does not have development should be set out in a way from the site and returns water to local a significant impact on bat roosting which minimises the risk of flooding both on watercourses at a greenfield rate. • Retain and enhance the existing features. site and beyond. Channelling rainfall water wooded areas in the periphery of the away from properties, providing appropriate • A range of landscape features which site to provide linked wildlife corridors in A programme of ecology surveys and drainage to avoid localised flooding, and attenuate water above ground, addition to forming part of an integrated monitoring, to guide the production of a including flood resilient and resistant contributing to landscape character and multi-functional green amenity space for biodiversity management plan will ensure measures within properties to limit the biodiversity and avoiding the need for residents, as identified by Fix I. appropriate mitigation and enhancement is impact of any future extreme flood events, underground storage tanks. carried out on the site. Proposals that have may help to alleviate risks. • Retain and enhance the watercourse an adverse impact on biodiversity and the • A range of landscape features which and valley and associated landscape natural environment will not be supported, Development proposals must be treat and filter surface water and allow features as biodiversity areas in addition unless appropriate justification, mitigation accompanied by a Flood Risk Assessment water to permeate into the water table, to its recreational value. and supplementary provision is provided which takes account of climate change as including rain gardens, swales and elsewhere on site. set out in Policy CC/9. basins / ponds.
• On-plot features including green/ Figure 48 | Providing bird boxes will contribute to net gain blue roofs, water butts and rainwater harvesting, especially for buildings within public control and ownership.
Landscape features should be carefully integrated into open spaces and streets, adding value to the character of the village Figure 49 | Landscapes designed for sustainable drainage and flood resilience and contributing to the accessibility of natural environments while being mindful of maintenance requirements.
Sustainable drainage should utilise the existing topography of the site to help drain surface water and should avoid the need for pumping stations where possible. Existing watercourses on the site should be retained and integrated into the future drainage strategy of the new village.
64 65 5D Sustainable buildings Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs), Water Where a developer is proposing to provide 5F Waste & Recycling Source Heat Pumps (WSHP) and a show home, a sustainable showhome In order to meet the requirements of policy biomass should be considered. will also be provided to demonstrate The effective planning and management of SS/7 to exceed sustainable design and environmentally sustainable options to waste in the new village during and post construction standards established by the • Buildings should be designed to create be made available for purchasers to construction is vital to mitigate climate local plan, consideration will be given to a appropriate roof space for solar panels incorporate in their homes, if desired, change, and environmental and health range of measures, including but not limited and be oriented to take account of in addition to the measures required by issues. This will include the following to: passive solar gain where possible. Policy CC/3. measures:
• Trialing electric heating systems and • Construction materials with low Targets for sustainable buildings should • A Construction Environmental heat pump technologies as part of the embodied energy, and which are locally be reviewed at each phase of the Management Plan will be required to first phase of development to facilitate sourced, should be utilitised. This development, in order to ensure that future set out the management measures the design and delivery of future phases. includes the re-use and recycling of proposed during the construction period, the existing building materials where as set out in Policy CC/6 of the South • Consideration of other technologies feasible. Materials which have poor 5E Site-wide energy strategy Cambridgeshire Local Plan. for future phases include residential sustainability credentials should be batteries, fuel cells and phase change avoided. An embodied carbon analysis Policy SS/7 requires that the new village • Provision for waste storage, recycling technologies. of key construction materials will help will incorporate and deliver opportunities to and collection should be integrated into ensure the emissions associated with exceed sustainable design and construction the development at design stage. • Incorporation of a solar photovoltaic development can be reduced and would standards set out in the Local Plan. The array on the North Bank. be welcomed as part of any application. new village aspires to be an exemplar and • Consideration should be given to developers should explore, on a site-wide innovative approaches to household • Provision of smart grid systems to help • Development should make water use basis, opportunities to incorporate on- waste collection and storage, especially balance energy demand. efficiency savings to exceed levels set site renewable energy low carbon energy in the village centre. Communal out in Policy CC/4. Buildings should generation with a view to exceeding the underground bins can encourage • Use of modern construction methods. reduce the consumption of potable water baseline requirement for a 10% reduction recycling without detracting from the All new buildings should be designed for sanitary use from all sources using in anticipated carbon emissions through streetscape. An example of such a and built to be energy efficient, using water efficient components and water the installation of an integrated system on scheme can be seen at the North West a ‘fabric first’ approach and the latest recycling systems. This should include homes and non-residential buildings or site Cambridge Development. technology and design methods to rainwater harvesting and water butts. wide solutions as set out in Policy CC/3. minimise the impact of the development Solutions could include solar photo voltaic on the local and wider environment. • Buildings should include measures arrays in suitable locations and solar panels to design out climate risks such as above car parking and within Runway Park. • Site wide and/or building-specific overheating. This should include a technologies such as solar photovoltaic ‘cooling hierarchy’ which prioritises An Energy Strategy must accompany the panels (PV), solar water heating, Air architectural and green infrastructure outline planning application stage. The Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs), Ground solutions ahead of mechanical strategy should be prepared in accordance ventilation and cooling. with the principles of the energy hierarchy and outline how Bourn Airfield will seek • Smart meters should be incorporated to reduce energy by design, use energy Figure 50 | Exemplar sustainable into new homes to enable the use of efficiently and utilize renewable and low- buildings, Hanham Hall, Bristol smart grid systems in the future. Non- carbon energy. Figure 51 | Environmentally sustainable residential buildings of over 1,000m² options for drivers should seek to achieve Building Site-wide energy solutions and/ or the Research Establishment Environmental deployment of energy networks should be Assessment Method (BREEAM) considered and implemented where feasible certification. Other technologies for and viable. Heat networks, for example, consideration could include residential may be viable in higher density parts of the batteries, fuel cells and phase change site, or where uses are mixed in a way that material technologies. allows heating infrastructure to be shared or utilised at different times of day. This should particularly be explored in relation to large energy users.
66 67 5G Noise, light and air quality • Developers will be required to I Protected biodiversity areas and • Gaps between retained existing demonstrate that they have maximised corridors biodiversity areas around the edges The new village should provide a safe, the opportunities for sustainable travel of the site should be connected with comfortable and healthy environment for and mitigated impacts on air quality Existing biodiversity areas should be habitat focussed landscapes including its residents and should minimise the through submission of a Low Emission protected and net gains incorporated native woodland planting and other impacts it has on the landscape, ecology Strategy (Policy SC/12) and Travel Plan where possible, with the wider-site appropriate features. and residential amenity of the site and (Policy TI/2). layout and landscape designed to create its surroundings. Development proposals enhanced biodiversity. • Other green corridors within the site will be expected to mitigate the impacts • Planning applications should be should provide connecting habitat of noise, air quality, light and human accompanied by a Noise Impact In order to achieve this: landscapes, balanced against other disturbance on the environment. Assessment and Air Quality Assessment, recreational and amenity needs of and the new village will be required • The surrounding strategic landscape these spaces. • Planning applications should be to mitigate the impact of noise and area will be utilised as open space, a accompanied by an Air Quality air quality from existing employment country park and retained in existing • Other open spaces, streets Assessment, and the new village will uses by virtue of suitable design. rural land-uses. These areas should and landscape areas within the be required to mitigate the impact of For example, a buffer using acoustic include new naturalistic landscapes development should incorporate native noise and air quality from the A428 by screens if appropriate, building layout which support enhanced biodiversity. planting where appropriate. virtue of a suitable design. For example, and orientation and suitably ventilated a buffer using landscaped earth bunds buildings. • Existing woodland, significant if appropriate, building orientation and areas of vegetation and the existing suitably ventilated buildings. watercourse should be retained and enhanced, with appropriate buffers • Development proposals will consider provided to minimise the impact of the siting of land-uses which generate development on biodiversity including the most noise and light away from the buffers for Barbastelle bats. most sensitive ecological and heritage environments; and consider the impact on the living conditions of nearby Figure 52 | Protected biodiversity areas and corridors residents.
• Where permanent lighting is required within the vicinity of sensitive habitats such as those that may be used for foraging bats, including where paths pass through these areas, such lighting will be sensitively designed to minimise light spillage.
• External artificial lighting should be designed to minimise skyglow and be the minimum required to ensure public safety and for crime prevention and living, working and recreational purposes.
68 69 6 Cohesive, well-planned and well-governed 6D Transitional and temporary uses • Support for local retail businesses and entrepreneurs, with the objective of The new village should provide a range creating an established retail community of uses which are appropriate to its size, to occupy the village centre at its point and community’s needs, at each stage of of completion, potentially including It is essential that the development 6C Management and governance of its development. This may mean creating community run businesses of the new village is taken forward in community assets temporary buildings and uses in the initial a co-ordinated and cohesive manner stages of the development to ensure that • A temporary community centre providing with the bigger picture clearly in mind. It is beyond the scope of the SPD to make the early residents are not isolated, to information and advice for new Successful comprehensive delivery will detailed arrangements for governance, create a transition towards the completed residents, and potentially including a require engagement, collaboration and however, the approach should include the village, and to avoid unsustainable patterns community café co-ordination between site promoters/ following: of movement taking hold. landowners to ensure that the new village • Temporary structures built to house is cohesively designed and well planned • The preparation of a Community The development should explore facilities during the early phases of with the necessary supporting infrastructure Development Strategy as required by opportunities for: development could include distinctive provided at the right time. Any development Policy SC/4: Meeting Community Needs. architectural forms, helping to create a proposals must fully consider and • A temporary village centre with distinctive identity and character for the incorporate each of the guiding principles to • Establishment a public/private group subsidised spaces for retail and small village and its residents. create a cohesive development. which can provide leadership, lobbying businesses, which could be provided and influence. within temporary structures, including at 6A An evolving and adaptable approach least one fresh-food grocery store • Preparation of Management and The Council is committed to delivering Maintenance Strategies and set-up of cohesive and strong communities that an organisation that can deliver village are able to meet the diverse needs of all management, manage and maintain existing and future residents. A strategy for community assets, management and dealing with the timely delivery of services, maintenance of open space, adoption Figure 53 | Retail units in light-weight, temporary structures with active outside facilities and infrastructure when they of highways and provision of street spaces, Cardiff are needed and achieving design quality lighting, discussing this with the must be submitted as part of any planning appropriate local authority at an early application stage (Policy SC/4).
6B Engagement and involvement • Measures to promote integration, enhancement and the sharing of The SPD sets out an overall infrastructure facilities with the existing communities requirement with a focus on what will be of Cambourne, Highfields Caldecote and required early in the development, to help Bourn, such as supporting the set-up secure the foundation of strong community of a local neighbourhood management cohesiveness, as well as enabling the governance structure. provision of appropriate services. • Setting up forums which enable The Council is committed to the provision promoters to co-operate towards of communities that can meet the diverse common aims and liaise over technical needs of future residents and visitors. matters to ensure integration and area The Council will seek every opportunity wide proposals for transport, waste, to maximise personal and community energy and public realm are properly co- wellbeing and to create equal opportunities ordinated. for all residents and visitors.
70 71 6 Delivering the Place
their funding decisions, as development of 6.1 Overview this scale may extend outside of a single plan period. This section sets out high-level infrastructure requirements for the new Annual reviews of the infrastructure village and the required approach for future funding statement should feed back into delivery. The infrastructure listed below review of plans to ensure that they remain forms a baseline for future consideration of deliverable. Should issues arise which planning applications and related delivery. would adversely affect the delivery of the SCDC’s objectives are: adopted strategy then the authority should consider alternative strategies, through a • To secure a comprehensive and plan review, if these issues are unlikely to inclusive approach to the development be resolved. of the site;
• To ensure there is an appropriate 6.2 Infrastructure Delivery Plan phasing/delivery strategy; The table describes infrastructure required • To secure the delivery of infrastructure in order to support the delivery of and within appropriate timescales; mitigate the impacts of the new village, achieve the vision and development • To ensure there is a consistent approach objectives set out above and meet relevant to design quality across the site; existing and future needs. The plan is divided into sections: • To ensure there is a comprehensive approach to future management and • Transport related infrastructure. governance of the place. • Utilities and services. • Social/community Infrastructure. The infrastructure schedule draws upon a number of sources including infrastructure The plan also identifies the following: providers, County and District Councils, national formulas and information from • Description of each item/scheme. site promoters and service providers. The • Broad timing/trigger for delivery. SPD identifies high-level delivery risks and • On or off-site requirements. potential measures of mitigation. • Responsibilities for funding and delivery.
Strategic policy-making authorities need Where specific information is not available, to demonstrate they have engaged with the infrastructure needs and triggers infrastructure providers, ensuring that they have been estimated to reflect the overall are aware of the nature and scale of such development. Planning permission will only the proposals, and work collaboratively to be granted for proposals that have made ensure that the infrastructure requirements suitable arrangements for the improvement are not beyond what could reasonably be or provision of infrastructure to make the considered to be achievable within the scheme acceptable in planning terms. planned timescales.
Infrastructure providers should plan for longer-term infrastructure requirements set out within adopted plans and reflect this in
72 73 Figure 54 | Infrastructure Delivery Plan Infrastructure Delivery Plan Infrastructure Delivery Plan Provider/ On/ 0ff No. Infrastructure Scheme Description Triggers Land holding Funding Mechanism partner site Transport Infrastructure
Non-motorised user infrastructure
1 Improved cycle, walking and A comprehensive network of high quality pedestrian, cycle routes and riding within Applicants / Prior to occupation. To Both Taylor family / S106 / S278 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation riding network the site and to connect the new village to surrounding villages, including Caldecote, Cambridge be identified through the Countryside and required. Bourn and Cambourne etc. County Transport Assessment offsite. Council (CCC) process. 2 Cycleway improvement Along old A428 corridor, between A428 Madingley Mulch roundabout and Applicants / Prior to occupation. To Both Taylor family / S106 / S278 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation Cambourne. CCC be identified through the Countryside and required. Transport Assessment offsite. process. 3 Improvements to public Link on site routes to surrounding villages (walking, cycling, bridleways) and provide Applicants Prior to occupation. To Both Taylor family / S106 / S278 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation rights of way network circular routes for dog-walking, health walks, running and horse riding. be identified through the Countryside required. Transport Assessment process. 4 Cycle parking Cycle parking to be provided at some of the bus stops to improve accessibility. Applicant / Pre-occupation. To be Off N/A S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation CCC determined through required. Transport Assessments.
Public transport infrastructure
5 Cambourne to Cambridge New public transport link and Park and Ride facility between Cambourne and GCP Cam- Prior to occupation. Both Taylor family / S106 A contribution towards the GCP Cambourne to Cambridge – Better Public Transport Cambridge. The developer is to provide the section within their site. Two stops are bridgeshire Countryside and scheme will be made by the developer. To be agreed with Project proposed at Bourn Airfield New Village. Public consultation has been carried out one and Peter- offsite CCC. route. Plans for the regional Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM) network are borough at an early stage, but the proposed routes take into account the requirements of the Combined CAM. Authority 6 Bus services Improvement of sustainable transport links to Cambridge and Cambourne/St. Neots. Applicant / Triggers to be agreed Off N/A S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation CCC through the S106 process. required. 7 A428 Madingley Road Bus Mitigation would be required along A428 corridor by enhancing off site bus routes. Applicant / Triggers to be agreed Off N/A S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation re- priority CCC through the S106 process. quired. 8 Public Transport Improved services to destinations such as St Neots to be investigated and provide Applicant / On occupation. To be On and N/A S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation by developer as necessary. CCC determined through off required. Transport Assessments.
Highway infrastructure
9 Highway improvements Primary road network within the proposed new village. Applicant / To be determined through On site. Taylor family / Developer to Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation CCC Transport Assessments. Countryside deliver. required. 10 Highway improvements New access junction on the eastern side of the development. Junction with Applicant / To be determined through On and Taylor family / Developer to Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation Highfields Road/ St Neots Road. CCC Transport Assessments. off site Countryside and deliver. required. off site. 11 Highway improvements New access junction on the western side of the development. Junction with The Applicant / To be determined through On and Taylor family / Developer to Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation Broadway. Junction must be designed to effectively ban left turns out of the New CCC Transport Assessments. off site Countryside and deliver. required. Village and right turn in so as to minimise rat running through the village of Bourn. off site. 12 Highway Improvements Capacity enhancements at other local junctions which are impacted by the Applicant / Prior to occupation - to Off site Taylor family / S106/ S278 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation development as required. CCC be identified through the Countryside and required. Transport Assessment off site. process. 13 Highway Mitigation Applicant to monitor traffic impacts on village routes, including Bourn, Highfields Applicant / Prior to occupation and Off site Taylor family / S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation Caldecote, Knapwell and Hardwick on an ongoing basis. CCC ongoing - to be identified Countryside and required. through the Transport off site. Assessment process. 14 Highway Mitigation Traffic calming and other measures to be implemented in surrounding villages Applicant / Triggers to be agreed Off site Taylor family / S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation including Bourn, Highfields Caldecote, Knapwell and Hardwick if required. CCC through S106 process. Countryside and required. Monitoring strategy will reflect this need. To be identified through off site. the Transport Assessment process.
74 75 Infrastructure Delivery Plan Infrastructure Delivery Plan Provider/ On/ 0ff No. Infrastructure Scheme Description Triggers Land holding Funding Mechanism partner site 15 Off-site mitigation works If traffic is above model flows monitoring and fund required for traffic calming. Applicant Triggers to be agreed through the S106 process. 16 Electric car and cycle Provision of charging points for electric cars and bicycles to facilitate greener travel Applicant Amount should be in line On Taylor family / Direct Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation charging points options. with housing and village Countryside required. centre phasing. Utilities Infrastructure
Waste
17 Waste and recycling Provision of waste storage containers for storage and collection of household Waste Prior to occupation and then On Taylor family / S106 Developer to provide bins and pay S106 contribution containers general waste, recyclables and organic waste. Collection phased delivery. Countryside towards provision of collection vehicles. Authority & Developer 18 Refuse Collection Vehicles Contribution towards refuse collection vehicles. Waste Triggers to be agreed Off N/A S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation Collection through the S106 process. required. Authority 19 Bring sites Provision of Bring Sites for the collection of recyclable materials, to be situated at SCDC Prior to occupation and then On Taylor family / S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation sites easily accessible to the public. phased delivery. Countryside required. 20 Household Waste Recycling Contribution to St Neot’s Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC). Waste Prior to occupation and then Off N/A S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation Centre Collection phased delivery. required. Authority
21 Household waste Provision of household waste receptacles for users. Applicant Details of housing mix On Taylor family / TBC Alongside delivery of reserved matters applications. receptacles required to calculate cost. Countryside
22 Litter bins Adequate facilities for residents and visitors to dispose of litter in public places. Applicant Details of housing mix On Taylor family / S106 Planning conditions / S106 where direct mitigation required to calculate cost. Countryside required.
Water
23 Potable water supply The existing main has no spare capacity and substantial reinforcements will need to Cambridge Prior to occupation Both N/A Direct Direct agreement between developer and infrastructure be carried out by Cambridge Water. Water agreement provider who is obliged to provide capacity for planned between development. The site is expected to be served from the water main located near the junction of developer Broadway and the A428. An additional 300m of water main will be required to get to and the site. infrastructure provider. 24 Foul water network The proposed development is in the catchment of Bourn WRC. The existing WRC Anglian Water Prior to occupation Both N/A Direct Direct agreement between developer and infrastructure has limited capacity but could take a portion of foul flows from the new site. agreement provider based upon the number of dwellings and Alternative WRCs in the vicinity are Papworth Everard and Utton’s Drove, and between commercial units connected. Service provider is obliged to each may be able to accommodate some or all of the foul water flows from the developer provide capacity for planned development. development. Work is ongoing to assess the foul drainage options in conjunction and with other development sites at Cambourne West and Northstowe. Initial assessment infrastructure indicates that capacity could be made available at Papworth Everard within provider. environmental parameters. Utton’s Drove is less favourable at this time as the expansion of Cambourne and Northstowe would likely take precedence. Whichever option is taken, upgrades to the foul network will be required to convey the flows to the serving WRC.
Energy and Telecoms
25 Gas The capacity in the local area is limited and Cadent Gas will complete network National Grid Prior to occupation. Both N/A Direct Direct agreement between developer and infrastructure studies and reinforcement to provide the capacity to the site. agreement provider based upon the number of dwellings and between commercial units connected. Service provider is obliged to Connections are likely to be from an existing medium pressure main in the North developer provide capacity for planned development. West corner of the site. and infrastructure There is uncertainty whether new homes will need gas connection given the provider. Government is proposing that new homes will not have gas boilers from 2025.
76 77 Infrastructure Delivery Plan Infrastructure Delivery Plan Provider/ On/ 0ff No. Infrastructure Scheme Description Triggers Land holding Funding Mechanism partner site 26 Electricity Lack of available capacity in the network, and therefore there needs to be UK Power Prior to occupation. Both N/A Direct Direct agreement between developer and infrastructure reinforcement to provide capacity to the site. Capacity must be sufficient to enable Networks agreement provider based upon the number of dwellings and charging of electric and low emission vehicles. between commercial units connected. Service provider is obliged to developer provide capacity for planned development. Connections are likely to be from ‘Bourn Primary’ approximately 2.9km from the SW and corner of the site. infrastructure provider. 27 Telecoms / Broadband There are multiple options for serving the site with ultrafast fibre broadband to each Broadband/ Prior to occupation Both Taylor family / Commercial Direct agreement between developer and infrastructure dwelling and commercial unit (Full Fibre to the Premises (FTTP)). Telecoms Countryside arrangement provider. provider directly with broadband/ telecoms provider. 28 Renewable energy Policy CC/3 of the Local Plan sets out the targets for new development. Various Developer At various stage throughout On Taylor family / S106 Outline planning applications must clearly demonstrate that infrastructure types of renewable energy generation may be suitable on the site and should be the development. Countryside renewable energy opportunities have been investigated and investigated further. Policy SS/7 (9) states that the new village will incorporate and incorporated. deliver opportunities to exceed sustainable design and construction standards in the Local Plan and that these measures could include combined heat and power. Social Infrastructure
Affordable Housing
29 Affordable housing 40% of the homes on the site will be affordable in line with Policy H/10 of the South Applicant Phased throughout On Taylor family / S106 S106 contributions. Cambridgeshire Local Plan. development. Countryside
Community facilities
30 Library Satellite library based within a shared multi-purpose community building, to CCC To be determined. On Taylor family / S106 S106 contributions. complement the library in Cambourne. Countryside 31 Community centre Provision of two multi-purpose community buildings. One of these would include SCDC Ready for first occupations On Taylor family / S106 To be delivered by the developer. changing rooms and a 2 court sports hall and performance space. This could also and easily accessible to first Countryside include services such as library (see below), information and advice services, health occupations. services, adult learning services and an office and room for a children’s centre. 32 Indoor sports facilities Contributions to sports hall, swimming pool and indoor bowls in line with the Playing SCDC / Parish Triggers to be agreed Both Taylor family / S106 TBC Pitch Strategy (2016) and Indoor Sports Facility Strategy (2016). Provision of the Council body through the S106 process. Countryside swimming pool is likely to be in Cambourne. Sports hall could be co-located with the community building or at a larger facility in Cambourne, and/or there is potential for the dual / shared use of school sports hall(s). 33 Faith spaces Requirement of Policy SC/4 of the South Cambridgeshire District Plan (2018). Parish Council Triggers to be agreed On Taylor family / S106. Held Spaces to be provided as opportunity sites. Minimum of two body / various through the S106 process. Countryside in trust in sensibly located areas. There has been interest from faith groups to build their own places of worship depending on by Parish occupier Council until suitable purchasers. 34 Burial Grounds Requirement of Policy SC/4 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018). Parish Council Triggers to be agreed On Taylor family / 0.83ha to To be provided by developer on site. body through the S106 process. Countryside be provided Approximately 0.83ha of land is likely to be required. within the site. 35 Public Art Requirement of Policy HQ/2 of the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018). This SCDC/ Parish Triggers to be agreed On Taylor family / S106 S106 contributions. should be community led and reflect the distinctiveness of the site. Council body through the S106 process. Countryside
36 Community development Support worker to meet the needs of the new population generated through the early Applicant / From first occupation for set N/A N/A Phased S106 contributions. workers and Children and phases of development (Policy SC/4). CCC / SCDC period. financial Families and Adults service contribution. requests.
78 79 Infrastructure Delivery Plan Infrastructure Delivery Plan Provider/ On/ 0ff No. Infrastructure Scheme Description Triggers Land holding Funding Mechanism partner site
Education
37 Primary schools Two primary schools are required, a 3FE primary school with Early Years provision CCC and/ First school by first On Taylor family / S106 S106 contributions. requiring 3ha of land. In addition, a 4FE primary school with Early Years provision or approved occupation. Second school Countryside requiring 4ha of land. academy to reflect pace of housing operator delivery. 38 Secondary school A 6FE secondary school requiring 7ha of land. CCC and/ Triggers to be agreed On Taylor family / S106 S106 contributions. or approved through the S106 process Countryside academy to ensure the provision of operator sufficient capacity. 39 Special Education Needs Contribution to proposed Northstowe Area Special School. CCC Required to be monitored. Off N/A S106 S106 contributions. (SEN) 40 Children’s Centre An office and access to a room is required which could be at a school or other CCC School or community centre On Taylor family / S106 S106 contributions. suitable community building. There is no requirement for a financial contribution to opening. Countryside build additional dedicated space. 41 Nursery Opportunity for unit to be provided for commercial rent within the development for Applicant Aligned to primary school On Taylor family / S106 contributions. full day-care provision of pre-school accommodation. – space provision plus site(s) and / Countryside requirement or accommodation for private providers.
Health
42 Community health facility Community health facility for provision of a range of primary and community Cambridgesh- Subject to NHS On Taylor family / S106 S106 contributions. and space services. Approximately 1000m2, plus parking and access. ire & Peterbor- requirements. Triggers to Countryside ough Clinical be agreed through the S106 Commission- process. ing Group (CCG) / NHS
Retail and Employment
43 Retail and services Retail and service space in local centre and potentially neighbourhood hub. Third party Delivered through each On Taylor family / Direct. Ensure land is safeguarded in local centre. phase. Village centre in first Countryside phase. 44 Small business/retail units The delivery of speculative small business units. Strategy needed for the delivery Applicant Delivered through each On Taylor family / Direct. Employment developers to put forward their proposals and management of the units. / other phase. Village centre in first Countryside through planning applications. developers. phase. 45 Employment space Existing employment area on site to be reconfigured / expanded. Co-working DB Group Delivered through each On DB Group Direct. Employment developers to put forward their proposals business space in local centre to support small scale business development. phase. Likely to be in the through planning applications. Ensure land is safeguarded Aitchison early phases. Aitchison in local centre. Developments Developments
Third party Taylor family / Countryside
Open space
46 Outdoor sports pitches and South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018) requires 1.6ha of outdoor sport space per SCDC / Parish Delivered through each On Taylor family / S106 Developers to provide. Also, contribution for on-going sports pavilions 1,000 people. Therefore, assuming a population of 9,800 residents (3,500 dwellings Council body. phase. Countryside maintenance and governance. x 2.8 people per household) there is a requirement for 15.68ha (subject to the possible dual use of school and sports space). This could include a contribution for artificial grass pitches.
80 81 Infrastructure Delivery Plan Infrastructure Delivery Plan Provider/ On/ 0ff No. Infrastructure Scheme Description Triggers Land holding Funding Mechanism partner site 47 Open space and play areas South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018) requires 1.2ha of open space per 1,000 SCDC Delivered through each On Taylor family / S106 Developers to provide. Also, contribution for on-going people. Therefore, assuming a population of 9,800 residents there is a requirement phase. Countryside maintenance and governance. for 11.76ha. Subject to the needs of the development the open space requirement will consist of: Formal children’s play space (3.92ha), informal children’s play space (3.92ha) and informal open space (3.92ha). 48 Allotments and community South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (2018) requires 0.4ha of allotments and SCDC Delivered through each On Taylor family / S106 Developers to provide. Also, contribution for on-going orchards community orchards per 1,000 people. Therefore, assuming a population of 9,800 phase. Countryside maintenance and governance. residents there is a requirement for 3.92ha. 49 Strategic Landscaping Provision of strategic landscaping, including a country park, runway park and other Developer Delivered through each On Taylor family / Direct Developers to provide. Also, contribution for on-going areas. phase Countryside maintenance and governance. 50 Maintenance of public Will be in accordance with agreed phasing of transfer spaces. SCDC / CCC Delivered through each On Taylor family / S106 TBC open space, play areas, / Developer phase. Countryside sports pitches and water / community attenuation features, trust strategic open spaces and landscape areas, and the country park
Drainage
51 Surface water drainage Appropriate sustainable drainage systems (SuDs) must be incorporated into the CCC Delivered through each On Taylor family / S106 Developers to provide. Also, contribution for on-going development. These should be integrated to create amenity, enhance biodiversity phase. Countryside maintenance and governance. and contribute to a network of green and blue open space. Environment Agency DB Group
Aitchison Developments Monitoring
52 S106 monitoring Funding towards officer time. Developer Throughout the development. N/A N/A TBC S106 contributions. 53 Travel plan monitoring and Funding towards officer time. Developer / Prior to first occupation. N/A N/A S106 S106 contributions. coordinator CCC 54 Travel plan measures Package of measures such as bus passes, cycle discounts, etc., to be agreed. Developer / In accordance with agreed N/A N/A S106 S106 contributions. Breakdown of costs of individual measures needed as part of the travel plan(s). CCC travel plan.
82 83 6.3 Approaches to Delivery • Adopt a collaborative approach to Housing Delivery Rates 6.4 Development Quantum project management and delivery, The development of the new village will establishing clear day to day project Policy SS/7 of the Local Plan establishes The Spatial Framework shown on page 31 potentially take place over a circa 15 - 20 management roles and responsibilities. the requirement for the delivery of sets out an indicative layout for the site, year period and it is essential that the approximately 3,500 homes at Bourn identifying areas for key land uses and managed delivery of new homes, jobs • Establish relevant project management Airfield. It is also acknowledged that the buffers required around key edges and and related infrastructure is co-ordinated structures and responsibilities. The delivery of the total number of homes will retained site features. and comprehensive, in accordance with following groups will be considered in be beyond the period of the current local the adopted local plan, this SPD and any helping to facilitate this approach: plan. The Greater Cambridge housing In accordance with Local Plan Policy SS/7, subsequent policy review. trajectory (September 2019) suggests that the spatial framework identifies capacity Project Delivery Group circa 1,325 homes will be provided by 2031 for a development of approximately 3,500 Project management and Decision Making and therefore circa 2,175 homes beyond the dwellings. In addition to approximately e.g. Responsible for overarching plan period as per the following table: 79.5ha identified for residential A joint approach to project management, project management and co-ordination, development (also including the village communication and decision making will programme and key decision making/ centre and neighbourhood hub), a be put in place with key partners. This delivery. Reviewing annual reports (e.g. further 9.15ha is identified for mixed-use will include setting out the resources delivery, monitoring etc.) development including residential. Further and skills required to deliver the agreed flexibility may arise in the event that dual site-wide masterplan during the life of Transport Review Group / shared use of school sports pitches is its development, with project teams and Figure 55 | Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory agreed (see below). working groups to progress key topics. e.g. Responsible for reviewing/co- ordinating key issues related to delivery Planned Growth Number of Homes The development identifies recreational 425 An appropriate delivery model will need to of required infrastructure and mitigation 2021 - 2025 open space based on this capacity, with be put in place to ensure a comprehensive of impacts upon the existing network (425) an estimated population of 9,800 using and cohesive high quality development, 900 an average of 2.8 residents per dwelling. 2025 - 2031 and the phasing, coordination and Infrastructure Review Group (1325) Local Plan Policy SC/7 requires 1.6ha of comprehensive delivery of the infrastructure 2031 - Beyond plan 2,175 recreational space for outdoor sports, and built form across the whole site. e.g. Responsible for reviewing delivery period (3,500) resulting in a requirement of 15.68ha before This could include the establishment and considering priorities; emerging consideration of potential for dual/shared of a master developer. An appropriate issues and challenges; liaison with other use with schools. delivery framework will be formulated key stakeholders via the introduction of relevant planning Additional requirements for formal and conditions and planning obligations as part Masterplanning/Design Group informal play space are not specified by the of a site wide outline planning permission. Spatial Framework Diagram, and will be South Cambridgeshire District Council and e.g. including potential review of accommodated within the remaining open Cambridgeshire County Council will work masterplans, site proposals and spaces across the site including the runway collaboratively with landowners, promoters reserved matters along with the park, green edges, green corridors and and future developers in co-ordinating the decision making process undertaken country park areas. delivery of the site in accordance with an with SCDC Design Enabling Panel agreed site wide delivery strategy. and/or Cambridge Quality Panel or an The approximate land use budget for the alternative agreed approach. site is set out on page 86. The roles, responsibilities, skills and knowledge required to deliver the new The introduction of a Planning Performance The Council and Local Education Authority settlement will involve most if not all Agreement for defined parts of the planning/ would encourage dual / shared use of aspects of Council services along with delivery process will also help establish a sports pitches with schools, subject to the requirement to continue working robust approach to the management of the agreement with school delivery partners. together with partners, key stakeholders, project and delivery of the shared spatial site promoters/developers and the local vision, along with the resources required community. The project is acknowledged as allied to an agreed project programme. It a corporate priority for both the District and could reflect the above groups (or similar) County Councils who will, along with the within an overall project management/ site promoters and any subsequent delivery decision making structure. partners:
84 85 This would potentially reduce the 6.5 Development Phasing and • The delivery of the village centre and • Appropriate sustainability plans, requirement for sports provision by 4-8ha. infrastructure Delivery other facilities to support the community exceeding standard requirements. In this instance, the indicative land budget at each stage of its development, should be recalculated with the following It is important that development of the new including provision of temporary • Access to/provision of local employment considerations: village emerges in a logical and coherent facilities serving initial phases. opportunities. fashion within an established structure. A • Potential to reduce the amount of site wide development phasing plan will be • Development phases/parcels that are • Access to high quality utilities, digital outdoor sports provision within the established as part of a site wide outline well-connected and well-served by infrastructure and smart initiatives. development, subject to assessment of planning permission. Initial phases of infrastructure; avoiding where possible local need (in accordance with Fix F). development should be well-connected and the need for residents/operators to • Appropriate structures for community supported by the early delivery of physical travel through development sites to governance/decision making. • Increased net development area, and social infrastructure (as set out access key facilities. facilitating a lower net density or above) which will enable the formation of • Appropriate planning or construction increased capacity for the site, subject sustainable patterns of development, travel • The potential to develop employment phasing to ensure that construction of to agreement with SCDC. and a strong sense of community. A number and mixed-use parts of the development later phases is not detrimental to the of factors will need to be considered as part of early phases if viable. amenity of residents of early phases and • Potential to increase the amount of other including the requirement to avoid creating other neighbours. open spaces, including wider green isolated, poorly serviced parcels of • Provision of footway/cycleway to the corridors and more generous green development within the early phases of the eastern edge of Cambourne and the Proposals for each phase must be edges. new village. enhancement of existing facilities to accompanied by a statement explaining existing committees. how the proposals accord with the site-wide The following principles will apply and will masterplan and relevant design code(s). be secured via the planning application process: Figure 56 | Indicative land use budget: • Provide an appropriate mix of housing Land-Use Net Area in each phase, subject to market Figure 57 | Potential early phases plan (ha) conditions. Residential 79.5 Employment 13.3 • Appropriate phasing for the delivery of off-site highway improvements, including Mixed Use (including residential) 9.15 those designed to mitigate localised Secondary School 7 impacts. Primary Schools 7 • Appropriate phasing of public transport, Outdoor Sports 15.68 cycling and footpath improvements that will encourage new residents to adopt more sustainable modes of transport.
• Provision of connecting infrastructure including the primary street and reserved alignment for the HQPT in early phases.
• Appropriate phasing of community, education, leisure and recreational provision to support the level of housing proposed and to enhance the offer to existing communities.
86 87 6.6 Planning Application code must be agreed prior to determining condition(s) as part of a site wide outline 6.7 Delivery Options Requirements the related planning application(s), planning approval. demonstrating that an appropriate and There are a number of variables that may In order to secure the comprehensive acceptable site-wide approach has been The Design Codes could be used to identify affect the delivery of the new village, development of the site and the delivery taken consistent with the broader principles the character/detail of the following (non- including various economic factors, of site wide infrastructure, the Council and strategies set out within this SPD. exhaustive): investment proposals and funding. The requires the submission of a site wide consideration of a suitable delivery model outline planning application to include the All proposals for development on the • Street hierarchy (including relationship will be critical to the future success of the following: site, including each individual phase of built and natural form). place and the realisation of the vision. of development, must be subject to a The following will be critical in delivering • Site wide framework masterplan. process of design review, including by • Block sizes and character (including comprehensive solutions: the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel (or parking). • Environmental Impact Assessment. agreed alternative group). The Council • Collaborative approach to site wide will also seek Building for Life assessment • Building heights and scale. delivery • Site wide infrastructure and delivery and accreditation for each phase of strategy (in accordance with the high development as a marker of successful • Principal views. • The formulation of a site wide delivery level IDP set out above or subsequent delivery. strategy updates). • Edges, gateways and corners. Planning applications and/or subsequent • Securing an agreement for joint working • Vision and development objectives. reserved matters applications which • Community buildings and facilities. and project management prejudice the site-wide development of a • Overarching design principles. high quality, sustainable place in keeping • Public spaces. • Project review with the vision and objectives set out within • Site wide key parameter plans, this SPD, will not be approved by the local • Footpath and cycle network. • A commitment to site wide quality including: land uses, primary movement, planning authority. green infrastructure, building heights, • Built forms. • A site wide strategy for future community densities, etc. The SPD is not prescriptive in assuming management and governance detailed design solutions for individual • Palette of suitable materials, finishes • Site wide phasing strategy. phases and subsequent development and features. It will be important to include all relevant parcels. However, it does establish a clear stakeholders and bodies in the approach • Site wide constraints plan. spatial vision and objectives, key fixes Development Briefs to delivering the new village. Establishing and development principles for the site specific topic groups as part of an agreed • Design and Access Statement. and its relationship with the surrounding Development briefs will be required in project management framework will be area. Individual planning applications/ order to establish the detailed planning and helpful in informing decision making. The • Transport Assessment. reserved matters must consider this design of specific areas/spatial components promotion of individual land parcels should guidance in combination with the policies of the new village such as village/local not act as a restraint to achieving consistent • Site wide Design Framework. contained within the local plan in order to centres, key community/public buildings/ design quality and comprehensive delivery formulate proposals that are distinctive sites, areas of mixed use and/or key urban of new homes and the physical and social • Health Impact Assessment. and high quality. They must also adhere design locations (key nodes etc). It would infrastructure required. to these requirements and have regard to be expected that Development Briefs could • Waste Minimisation Audit and Strategy. whether development and/or infrastructure be produced as part of Design Codes. is critical to achieving the comprehensive All future phases of development must development of the site. Section 106 Agreements be accompanied by a statement of compliance explaining how they accord Design Codes In addition to the imposition of relevant and with the masterplan along with any necessary planning conditions, the Council required design code, regulating plan, in Design Codes should be used to help to will seek to use the introduction of a S106 addition to appropriate assessments such provide consistency of more detailed design agreement in order to mitigate the impacts as a sustainability statement, renewable considerations and design quality over of the proposed development, ensure energy statement and water conservation a number of development phases, whilst that the proposals are satisfactory from strategy. Where development is proposed providing an agreed degree of flexibility a planning perspective and to secure the which deviates from agreed documents, an for individual developers. The submission delivery of the required infrastructure at the updated site-wide masterplan and design of design codes will be subject to planning appropriate time, as set out above.
88 89 6.8 Monitoring, Review and Figure 58 | Overview of monitoring, delivery and plan making stages Implementation
Viability and deliverability
The revised NPPF and National Planning Practice Guidance establish that “Where up-to-date policies have set out the contributions expected from development, planning applications that comply with them should be assumed to be viable. It is up to the applicant to demonstrate whether particular circumstances justify the need for a viability assessment at the application stage”.
It will be expected that any required approach/strategy for the testing of viability and deliverability will be subject to prior agreement with the Council and established as part of the site wide outline planning application.
Monitoring and review
The success of the new village will be dependent upon a variety of factors, including the requirement to manage, monitor and review the project on an on- going basis.
A regime for monitoring the progress of the project, including delivery, will be introduced and thereafter regular reports will be provided to the Project Delivery Group (or equivalent) along with an annual monitoring report.
Given the long- term nature of this project, it will also be relevant to consider establishing appropriate review mechanisms into a site wide outline planning permission. Such review mechanisms could include viability, delivery rates. Infrastructure provision and approach to managing overall design quality (see above).
90 91 Appendices
Appendix 1 - Bourn Airfield Local Plan Policy
Appendix 2 - Local Policy Context
Appendix 3 - List of Acronyms
Appendix 4 - Glossary
Appendix 5 - List of Figures
92 93 Appendix 1: Bourn Airfield Local Plan policy Measures to Address Landscape, c. Retain existing woods, hedges, and Townscape and Historic Setting of the New water features which would contribute Village, and Deliver a High Quality New to the character and amenity of the Policy SS/7: New Village at Bourn Airfield The Phasing and Delivery of a Mix of Land Development: village or separation from surrounding Uses: communities, managed to enhance 1. Land south of the A428 based on Bourn 7. The new village will: their ecological value; Airfield is allocated for the development 6. The new village will provide a range of a new village of approximately 3,500 of uses appropriate to a new village a. Establish and follow design principles d. Consider the multifunctional value dwellings. A Supplementary Planning including: to deliver a high quality development of spaces, e.g. amenity, landscape, Document (SPD) will be prepared for the responding to local character, but also biodiversity, recreation and drainage; new village as addressed at subsection a. Residential development of a mix of with its own identity; 15 of this policy. The final number of dwelling sizes and types, including e. Take account of a full programme of dwellings will be determined through affordable housing, to achieve a b. Provide strategic landscaping within ecological survey and monitoring, to a design-led approach and spatial balanced and inclusive community; and beyond the Major Development guide a biodiversity management plan framework diagram included in the SPD. Site to deliver a high quality to provide appropriate mitigation and It will be classified as a Rural Centre b. Employment development, of a landscaped setting around the enhancement. once built. quantum type and mix to meet boundary of the settlement to avoid the needs of the new village to be it appearing as part of a ribbon of Creation of a comprehensive movement 2. The new village will be developed to high established through an Economic urban development south of the A428, network: standards of design and layout. A key Development Strategy prepared in to maintain the rural nature of the consideration will be the relationship with partnership with the local authority and Broadway and ensure separation from 9. The new village will be founded on a other settlements in the A428 corridor, key stakeholders; Cambourne, and to ensure countryside comprehensive movement network for and maintaining rural character and separation from Caldecote / Highfields the whole village, that connects key separation of individual villages. c. Shops, services, leisure and other town and Bourn. The strategic landscaping locations including the village centre centre uses1 of an appropriate scale along the eastern boundary of the and schools to encourage the use of 3. It will deliver an example of excellence for a Rural Centre, whilst avoiding Strategic Site south of the existing sustainable modes of travel and includes: in sustainable development and healthier significant impacts on vitality and employment area will include a living, which will make a significant viability of surrounding centres, and not substantial and continuous woodland a. Significant Improvements in Public contribution to the long term development competing with Cambridge as the sub belt along the full length of the Transport, including: needs of the Cambridge area. regional centre or Cambourne village boundary to provide a suitable buffer to centre; Caldecote / Highfields, including land i. Provision of a segregated bus link 4. The Major Development Site, which will within the Major Development Site; from Cambourne to Bourn Airfield accommodate the built development of d. Smaller local centres to meet the new village across the Broadway, and the new village, is shown on the Policies needs of residential areas to ensure c. Protect and enhance the setting of on through the development to the Map. The area to be planned through accessible local services; listed buildings near to the site; junction of the St Neots Road with the SPD is also shown on the Policies Highfields Road; Map. This includes additional land to e. Community services and facilities, d. Incorporate necessary mitigation to ensure that the development potential of including health, primary school and sensitive boundaries, with regard ii. Any measures necessary to ensure the former airfield site is maximised and secondary school education; to noise, including the A428, using that a bus journey between Caldecote to ensure that the new village includes landscaped earth bunds. / Highfields and the junction of the green infrastructure including formal f. Open space, sports and leisure A428 and the A1303 is direct and and informal open space, strategic, facilities; Delivery of a Significant Network of Green unaffected by any congestion suffered landscaping and green separation, Infrastructure: by general traffic; particularly from Caldecote / Highfields to g. Appropriate provision for and design help it fit into its rural setting. of waste / recycling management 8. The new village will: iii. Provision of high quality bus priority facilities. measures or busway on or parallel The Site: a. Provide a high degree of connectivity to the A1303 between its junction to existing corridors and networks, with the A428 and Queens Road, 5. The built area of the settlement will be 1 - Main town centre uses defined in the NPPF: Retail including through an enhanced network Cambridge; contained within the Major Development development (including warehouse clubs and factory outlet of footpaths and bridleways; Site, and the location of major land uses centres); leisure, entertainment facilities the more intensive b. Measures to Promote Cycling and sport and recreation uses (including cinemas, restaurants, and the design of the edges of the new drive-through restaurants, bars and pubs, night clubs, b. Include areas accessible to the public Walking, including: village will have particular regard to casinos, health and fitness centres, indoor bowling centres, as well as areas with more restricted ensuring an appropriate relationship with and bingo halls); offices; and arts, culture and tourism access with the aim of enhancing i. Provision of a network of attractive, Cambourne and Highfields Caldecote. development (including theatres, museums, galleries and biodiversity; direct, safe and convenient walking concert halls, hotels and conference facilities).
94 95 and cycling routes from the start of c. Ensure the provision, management and the infrastructure in a timely and for by this policy will be informed the development linking homes to on-going maintenance of sustainable efficient way to achieve the delivery by a SPD produced in accordance public transport and the main areas surface water drainage measures to of the new village, including the with policy paragraph 15 and the of activity such as the village centre, control the risk of flooding on site and needs of individual phases, and the local community and stakeholders schools and employment areas; which will reduce the risk of flooding to requirements on developers; will be engaged in its preparation. areas downstream and upstream of the The policy above establishes ii. Provision of a direct, segregated development. d. Make satisfactory arrangements to requirements and objectives that will high quality pedestrian and cycle ensure appropriate engagement and need to be addressed in the SPD, and links to west Cambridge,Cambourne, Community Development: consultation with local people and subsequently by developers. Caldecote / Highfields, Hardwick and stakeholders. Bourn; 12. Measures will be required to assist the 3.45 The Policies Map identifies the development of a new community, such Supplementary Planning Document: Major Development Site which will iii. A Smarter Choices package as through community development accommodate the built development including residential, school and workers. 15. The SPD to be prepared for the of the new village and infrastructure workplace travel planning. Strategic Site shown on the Policies to support it. Not all the site will be Site Preparation: Map will provide further guidance and developed within the Plan period c. Highway Improvements including: detail on the implementation of Policy and large parts of it will remain 13. Developers will be required to: SS/7. The SPD will include: undeveloped and green after the i. Include measures to mitigate the settlement is complete to provide traffic impact of the new village on a. Undertake site wide investigation and a. An overarching, high level vision for the a substantial green setting for the surrounding villages and roads; assessment of land contamination and new village; settlement. A wider Strategic Site other issues resulting from former land is identified to be addressed by the ii. Provide convenient vehicular uses, including military use, to ensure b. Consideration of relevant context SPD. This will allow the consideration access, with at least two separate the land is suitable for the proposed including key constraints and of measures to mitigate the wider access points to the north west and end use and is not presenting a risk to opportunities; impacts of the village, such as north east of the site; the environment. through strategic landscaping and c. The broad location of the components green infrastructure, to ensure that iii. Ensure that there will be no direct b. Ensure that all ordnance is removed of the new village which are essential it will remain physically separate vehicular access to the Broadway from the site in ways that ensure the to support comprehensive and from surrounding villages especially for southbound traffic from the new development can take place without seamless development. A spatial the closest villages of Caldecote / village (except buses and bicycles). unacceptable risk to workers and framework diagram will be included that Highfields, Bourn and Cambourne. neighbours including major disruption ensures the creation of a sustainable, Sustainability: to the wider public off site. legible and distinctive new settlement; 3.46 The landscape strategy will avoid creating the appearance of a ribbon 10. The new village will incorporate Phasing and Delivery: d. Broadly how the development is to be of development south of the A428, and deliver opportunities to exceed phased, including the delivery of key demonstrate how landscape and sustainable design and construction 14. The delivery of the new village, including infrastructure. biodiversity enhancements will standards established by the Local any individual phases, must: be achieved in the area, ensure Plan. These measures could include Supporting policy text (Nb. paragraph substantial landscaped separation combined heat and power. a. Be in accordance with the spatial number as per local plan) between settlements and maintain the framework diagram set out in the rural character of the Broadway. Infrastructure Requirements: Supplementary Planning Document to 3.43 Land at Bourn Airfield is allocated ensure a comprehensive development for the creation of a sustainable 3.47 It is important that any urban related 11. The new village will: of the site as a whole that will not new village of approximately 3,500 open uses, such as playing fields prejudice the creation of a fully dwellings. It provides another are carefully located and designed to a. Ensure the provision, management functioning and successful new village; opportunity for the reuse of previously ensure they do not reduce the rural and maintenance of infrastructure, developed land to meet the housing character of the landscaped setting services and facilities to meet the b. Be informed by appropriate strategies, and employment needs of the in visual terms, particularly having needs of the village; assessments and evidence reports; Cambridge area. regard to matters such as fencing and floodlighting. b. Make appropriate arrangements for c. Plan for essential services, facilities 3.44 This is a long term development foul drainage and sewage disposal, to and infrastructure to be provided in a opportunity. Development will take 3.48 All necessary community services be explored and identified through a comprehensive manner, anticipating place over the plan period, and and facilities will be provided by the Foul Drainage Strategy; future needs, and establishing beyond. The implementation of the development, either on-site or through suitable mechanisms to deliver new village development provided contributions to off-site provision
96 97 secured through a planning obligation, for example in relation to off-site transport infrastructure. Figure 59 | Policy SS/7: New Village at Bourn Airfield Map 3.49 A secondary school will be provided on site to serve the needs of the development. Local experience has shown that new settlements of this scale can support a secondary school which is also important for community cohesion. With further growth planned at Cambourne West it would be not be possible to expand that school to meet the needs generated by development at Bourn Airfield. The secondary school will be provided according to a trigger point in the planning obligation for the site to ensure timely provision of this key community facility. At least two primary schools and provision for early years childcare will be required.
3.50 A fundamental requirement for this site is that it will be a sustainable development which is highly accessible and permeable to all its residents on foot, by cycle and public transport, to support sustainable transport, recreation and health. Segregated provision for buses and cycle use provides for quicker journeys, greater use and improved safety. Together with development at West Cambourne extensive off-site transport infrastructure provision will be required to mitigate transport impacts, particularly between the new village and Cambridge.
3.51 The impact of development on a number of natural resources will also be important. This includes surface water drainage and sewage discharge and the need to take account of the impact of the development on the wider catchment, particularly in view of known problems on the Bourn Brook. The impact on the wider catchment must therefore be addressed and the potential for a catchment wide assessment / improvements should be considered.
98 99 Appendix 2: Local Policy Context Policy CC/5: Sustainable Show Homes … where a show home is being provided, a sustainable show home must be provided (either sepa- Policy S/2: Objectives of the Local Plan rately or instead of the show home) demonstrating environmentally sustainable alternatives beyond those provided to achieve the standard agreed for the development… Sets out the overarching vision and aims of the Local Plan, related to sustainable social, environmental and economic growth, whilst preserving the historic and natural character. Policy CC/6: Construction Methods
Management of materials on site (including re-use) and the need for construction traffic to have an Policy S/3: Presumption in favour of Sustainable Development agreed plan and methodology.
Emphasises the Council’s support for development that reflects the presumption as set out Policy CC/7: Water Quality within the NPPF. Demonstrate adequate water supplies; sewerage and land drainage. No harm should come to ground, surface or water bodies. Consider pollution sources and incorporate SuDs. Foul sewerage Policy S/5: Provision of New Jobs and Homes should connect to public sewers wherever possible.
Development will meet the objectively assessed needs in the District (2011 – 2031). Policy CC/8: Sustainable Drainage Systems
… incorporate appropriate sustainable surface water drainage systems (SuDS) appropriate to the Policy SS/7: New Village at Bourn Airfield 3,500 new homes. nature of the site …
Excellence in sustainable development. Policy CC/9: Managing Flood Risk No more than 1,700 new homes by 2031. Some employment provision. This policy prescribes how flood risk should be managed and mitigated, proving that a Flood Risk Village centre with retail and leisure uses. Assessment (FRA) would be required for developments over 1ha in size for proposals in Flood Zone Provision of Open space and Green Infrastructure. 2 and 3.
Appendix 1 sets out the policy in full. Policy HQ/1: Design Principles
This is a very broad policy requiring high quality design. Policy CC/1: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change Policy HQ/2: Public Art and New Development ... permission will only be granted for proposals that demonstrate and embed the principles of climate change mitigation and adaptation into the development. Applicants must submit a Sustainability … will encourage the provision or commissioning of public art that is integrated into the design of Statement to demonstrate how these principles have been embedded into the development development as a means of enhancing the quality of development proposals ... proposal. Policy NH/2: Protecting/Enhancing Landscape Character Policy CC/3: Renewable and Low Carbon Energy in New Developments Development will only be permitted where it respects and retains, or enhances the local character … to reduce carbon emissions (over the requirements set by Building Regulations) by a minimum of and distinctiveness of the local landscape 10% through the use of on-site renewable energy technologies. … site wide renewable and low carbon energy solutions that maximise on-site generation from these Policy NH/4: Biodiversity sources will be sought, such as renewable and low carbon district heating systems. New development must aim to maintain, enhance, restore or add to biodiversity. Opportunities should be taken to achieve positive gain through the form and design of development. Measures may in- Policy CC/4: Water Efficiency clude creating, enhancing and managing wildlife habitats and networks, and natural landscape. The built environment should be viewed as an opportunity to fully integrate biodiversity within new devel- ... new residential developments must achieve as a minimum the equivalent of Code for Sustainable opment through innovation. Priority for habitat creation should be given to sites which assist in the Homes Level 4 for water efficiency… achievement of targets in the Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs) and delivery of the Cambridgeshire Green Infrastructure Strategy. … non-residential development must be accompanied by a water conservation strategy, which dem- onstrates a minimum water efficiency standard equivalent to the BREEAM standard for 2 credits for water use levels …
100 101 Policy NH/5: Sites of Biodiversity or Geological Importance Policy H/12: Residential Space Standards for Market Housing
To ensure the effective management of sites identified on the Policies Map, development in these New build homes will provide internal floor areas which meet or exceed those set out in Figure 10 places will not normally be permitted. Policy H/11, South Cambridgeshire Local Plan. New homes created through residential conversions and homes created by changes of use from non-residential land uses should seek to meet or exceed Policy NH/6: Green Infrastructure the standards as far as it is practicable to do so.
... new developments will be required to contribute towards the enhancement of the green infrastruc- Policy H/18: Working at Home ture network within the district. These contributions will include the establishment, enhancement and the on-going management costs. Partial conversion, extension or change of use to residential developments to work from home will be permitted provided no significant harm is inflicted on neighbours and the rest of the property remains Policy NH/14: Heritage Assets as residential use.
Development proposals will be supported when They sustain and enhance the special character and Policy E/21: Retail Hierarchy distinctiveness of the district’s historic environment including its villages and countryside; They cre- ate new high quality environments with a strong sense of place. Proposals for new retail provision should be in keeping with their position in the retail hierarchy
Policy H/8: Housing Density Policy SC/2: Health Impact Assessment
Developments … will achieve an average net density of … 40 dph in urban extensions to Cambridge For developments of 100 or more dwellings or 5,000 m2 or more floorspace a full Health Impact As- and in new settlements. sessment will be required.
Policy H/9: Housing Mix Policy SC/4: Meeting Community Needs
Market homes in developments … will consist of: .. housing developments will include or contribute to the provision of the services and facilities neces- sary to meet the needs of the development…. a. At least 30% 1 or 2 bedroom homes; … community needs of large scale major developments (individual sites with 200 or more dwellings, b. At least 30% 3 bedroom homes; or groups of smaller sites which cumulatively exceed this figure), will be established through detailed c. At least 30% 4 or more bedroom homes; assessments and strategies prepared in consultation with service providers ... d. With a 10% flexibility allowance that can be added to any of the above categories taking account Policy SC/6: Indoor Community Facilities of local circumstances. All housing developments will contribute towards the provision of indoor community facilities to meet The housing mix of affordable homes in all developments being determined by local housing needs the need generated by the development. evidence. Developments of sufficient scale to generate the need for new on-site facilities will be required to do All affordable homes and 1 in every 20 market homes in a development will be built to meet the Life- so, unless it can be demonstrated that there would be advantages in delivery off-site such as a more time Homes Standard. accessible location or the delivery of a larger and better facility. Developments including specialist accommodation for the elderly (with or without care) will not be Policy SC/7: Outdoor Play Space, Informal Open Space and New Developments subject to the housing mix set out … All housing developments will contribute towards Outdoor Playing Space (including children’s play Policy H/10: Affordable Housing space and formal outdoor sports facilities), and Informal Open Space to meet the need generated by the development in accordance with the standards in Policy SC/8…. … will provide affordable housing as follows: a. To provide that 40% of the homes on site will be affordable; Policy TI/2: Planning for Sustainable Travel b. To address evidence of housing need. An agreed mix of affordable house tenures will be deter- 1. Development must be located and designed to reduce the need to travel, particularly by car, and mined by local circumstances at the time of granting planning permission; promote sustainable travel appropriate to its location. c. In small groups or clusters distributed through the site. 2. Planning permission will only be granted for development likely to give rise to increased travel de- mands, where the site has (or will attain) sufficient integration and accessibility by walking, cycling or public and community transport, including: ....
102 103 Policy SC/9: Lighting Proposals Appendix 3 - Glossary External lighting will only be permitted when others will not be unacceptably affected as outlined.
Policy SC/10: Noise Pollution Allocated Site - Sites identified for development in a development plan.
Development that would result in unacceptable noise pollution will not be granted. Biodiversity Action Plan - A strategy prepared for a local area aimed at conserving and enhancing biological diversity. Can address a specific habitat or species. SC/12: Air Quality Combined Heat and Power - A plant designed to produce heat and electricity from a single source. Development proposals that would be subject to unacceptable air quality standards will be refused Community Facilities - Facilities which help meet the varied needs of residents for health, education, and where appropriate, applicants will be required to submit a relevant assessment. and public services, as well as social, cultural and religious activities. Community Infrastructure Levy - A levy allowing local authorities to raise funds from owners or devel- Policy SC/4: Odour and Fugitive Emissions to Air opers of land undertaking new building projects in their area. Any development that is likely to generate mal-odours and emissions to air will need to demonstrate Design and Access Statement - A statement submitted alongside a planning application by the ap- that health, amenity and the environment will not be significantly effected. plicant to demonstrate that proper consideration has been given to the impact of the proposal and account taken of all relevant factors in the design and landscaping of the scheme. Development will Policy TI/3: Parking Provision be accessible to everybody regardless of age, gender or disability. Design Code - A set of illustrated design rules and requirements which instruct and may advise on Car and cycle parking provision should be provided through a designed approach in accordance with the physical development of a site or area. Builds on a design vision created by a masterplan. the standards set out. Formal Open Space - Land used for sport and for other activities requiring dedicated open space TI/8: Infrastructure and New Developments provision. Includes sports pitches, tennis courts, multi-use games areas, bowling greens, basketball courts, ball parks, allotments, water sport areas and other similar open spaces. 1. Planning permission will only be granted for proposals that have made suitable arrangements Green Infrastructure - Consists of multi-functional networks of protected open space woodlands, for the improvement or provision of infrastructure necessary to make the scheme acceptable in wildlife habitat, parks, registered commons and villages and town greens, nature reserves, water- planning terms. The nature, scale and phasing of any planning obligations and/or Community ways and bodies of water, historic parks and gardens and historic landscapes. Infrastructure Levy (CIL) contributions sought will be related to the form of the development and its potential impact upon the surrounding area. Health Impact Assessment - An assessment of the impact of the proposed development on health and identifies actions that can enhance positive effects and reduce or eliminate negative effects. 2. Contributions may also be required towards the future maintenance and upkeep of facilities either in the form of initial support or in perpetuity in accordance with Government guidance. Informal Open Space - Used by people of all ages for informal unstructured recreation such as walk- ing, relaxing, or a focal point, ranging from formal planted areas and meeting places to wilder, more Policy TI/9: Education Facilities natural spaces, including green linkages. Increasing pressure on provision of places, must be taken into account when assessing proposals Key Phase Approval - Sets out the extent of development within the phase such as affordable hous- for education facilities in order to achieve the most sustainable development …. ing, community facilities, additional detail on design, transport measures, delivery processes, timings etc. Each phase will need approval in accordance with the agreed Framework. Policy TI/10: Broadband South Cambridge Local Plan - Sets out policies to guide the future development of South Cam- bridgeshire. It also sets out where future development will take place, and identifies land for new New development (residential, employment and commercial) will be expected to contribute towards housing, community facilities, shops and employment. It is the key document used to determine the provision of infrastructure suitable to enable the delivery of high speed broadband services planning applications for new development in the district. across the district. Off-gauge bikes - Off-guage bikes are similar to cargo bikes and bikes with trailers. They are becom- ing increasingly common and are very well used in the area but they need more space to park than a standard bike and consideration also needs to be given to their storage when not in use. Outdoor Sport (open space) - Facilities such as grass pitches for a range of sports, bowling green’s tennis courts, athletics tracks and multi-use games areas plus ancillary facilities such as car park, changing and storage. Water can only be included if it is in the form of a formal water sports lake with associated facilities and car park. Planning obligation - A legally enforceable obligation entered into under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to mitigate the impacts of a development proposal. Renewable and low carbon energy - Includes energy for heating and cooling as well as generating electricity. Renewable energy covers those energy flows that occur naturally and repeatedly in the
104 105 environment – from the wind, the fall of water, the movement of the oceans, from the sun and also from biomass and deep geothermal heat. Low carbon technologies are those that can help reduce Appendix 4 - List of Acronyms emissions (compared to conventional use of fossil fuels). Reserved matters applications - Provide detailed proposals for layout, buildings, landscape, infra- ASHPs - Air Source Heat Pumps structure and local transport connections. AQMA - Air Quality Management Area Section 106 (S106) - Planning agreements that secure contributions (in cash or in kind) to the in- frastructure and services necessary to facilitate proposed developments. Planning obligations are BREEAM - Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method normally secured under Section 106 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990. CCC - Cambridgeshire County Council Strategic Environmental Assessment - A procedure which requires the formal environmental assess- ment of certain plans and programmes which are likely to have significant effects on the environ- CHP - Combined Heat and Power ment. CIL - Community Infrastructure Levy Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems - Sustainable drainage systems control surface water run-off by mimicking natural drainage processes using surface water storage areas, flow limiting devises CWS - County Wildlife Sites and the use of infiltration areas or soakaways. DAS - Design and Access Statement Transport Assessment - A comprehensive and systematic process that sets out transport issues relating to a proposed development. It identifies what measures will be required to improve accessi- dph - Dwellings per Hectare bility and safety for all modes of travel, particularly for alternatives to the car such as walking, cycling ES - Environment Statement and public transport and what measures will need to be taken to deal with the anticipated transport impacts of the development. EfW - Energy from Waste Travel Plan - A travel plan is a package of actions designed by a workplace, school or other organ- GCP - Greater Cambridge Partnership isation to encourage safe, healthy and sustainable travel options. By reducing car travel, travel plans can improve health and wellbeing, free up car parking space, and make a positive contribution to the GSHPs - Ground Source Heat Pumps community and the environment. HIA - Health Impact Assessment Construction Environmental Management Plan - The aim of the Construction Environmental Man- agement Plan (CEMP) is to set out the responsibilities with regard to compliance with legislation and HQPT - High Quality Public Transport to implement any mitigation measures. IDB - Internal Drainage Board Neighbourhood Equipped Areas of Play (LEAP) - The NEAP is an area of open space specifically designated, laid out and equipped mainly for older children but with play opportunities for younger IDP - Infrastructure Delivery Plan children as well. Located within 15 minutes walk from home, the NEAP is sufficiently large to enable provision for play opportunities that cannot be provided within a LAP or LEAP. LAPs - Local Areas of Play Local Areas of Equipped Play (LEAP) - The LEAP is an area of open space specifically designated LEA - Local Education Authority and laid out with features including equipment for children who are beginning to go out and play independently close to where they live, usually within 5 minutes walking time. LEAPs - Local Areas of Equipped Play Local Landscaped Area for Play (LLAP) - This is alternative provision to the LEAP, where the land- LEMP - Landscape and Ecology Management Plan scape characteristics of such sites should be incorporated into the design. MUGA - Multi-use Games Area Space for Imaginative Play (SIP) - SIP will complement the more formal LEAPs and will be designed specifically for imaginative play without the use of conventional moving equipment, thus widening the NCA - National Character Areas range of play opportunities for children. Being more informal in their design, with a focus on sustain- ability, it is anticipated that these areas will be more popular with children who are exploring their first NEAPs - Neighbourhood Equipped Areas of Play taste of independence and without the supervision of adults. NPPF - National Planning Framework Local Areas of Play (LAP) - The LAP is a small area of open space specifically designated and primarily laid out for very young children to play close to where they live i.e. within 1 minute walking SCDC - South Cambridgeshire District Council time. SEA - Strategic Environmental Assessment SCI - Statement of Community Involvement SCLP - South Cambridgeshire Local Plan SEN - Special Educational Needs
106 107 Appendix 5 - List of Figures
SLA - Strategic Landscape Area Figure Number / Title Page SPD - Supplementary Planning Document Figure 1 | Strategic Location 2 SSSI - Site of Special Scientific Interest SuDs - Sustainable Drainage Systems Figure 2 | Policy SS/7 Allocation 3 TA - Transport Assessment Figure 3 | Planning policy and consents timeline 7
TPOs - Tree Preservation Orders Figure 4 | Community Stakeholder Engagement Event 9 WSHP - Water Source Heat Pumps Figure 5 | Location of Bourn Airfield in relation to surrounding settlements 11 WWII - World War Two Figure 6 | Site ownership 12
Figure 7 | Site features and surrounding context 13
Figure 8 | Access, Movement & Connectivity 15
Figure 9 | The runways and employment site 17
Figure 10 | Western boundary 17
Figure 11 | Woodland track 17
Figure 12 | Flood Zone Map 18
Figure 13 | The watercourse 19
Figure 15 | Highfields Caldecote 19
Figure 17 | Cambourne 19
Figure 14 | Cambourne from above 19
Figure 16 | Bourn 19
Figure 18 | Listed 18th century barns 19
Figure 19 | Surrounding Facilities and Services 21
Figure 20 | Key Opportunities 22
Figure 21 | Key Constraints 23
Figure 22 | Spatial Framework Diagram 31
Figure 23 | Summary of structural fixes 31
Figure 24 | Road-user hierarchy 34
Figure 25 | Public Transport 36
108 109 Figure 26 | Electric vehicle charging point 37 Figure 53 | Retail units in light-weight, temporary structures with active outside spaces, Cardiff 71
Figure 27 | Main points of access and primary street 38 Figure 54 | Infrastructure Delivery Plan 74
Figure 28 | Strategic walking and cycling connections 39 Figure 55 | Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory 85
Figure 29 | Public transport routes and stops 40 Figure 56 | Indicative land use budget: 86
Figure 30 | Co-housing for older people (Source: resilience.org) 42 Figure 57 | Potential early phases plan 87
Figure 31 | Village Centre example 43 Figure 58 | Overview of monitoring, delivery and plan making stages 91
Figure 32 | Location of village centre and neighbourhood hub 44 Figure 59 | Policy SS/7: New Village at Bourn Airfield Map 99
Figure 33 | Example of a social space for people to meet, work and/or relax 45
Figure 34 | Example of an inclusive and accessible space 46
Figure 35 | Routes for recreational horse riding 47
Figure 36 | Creating natural environments for recreation 48
Figure 37 | Equipped play area integrated with landscape and built form, Cambridge 49
Figure 38 | Recreational walking, cycling and horse riding 56
Figure 39 | Provision for outdoor sports 53
Figure 40 | Distinctive and locally inspired building styles, Cambridge 55
Figure 41 | Larger scale buildings 56
Figure 42 | Primary street with integrated car parking and street trees 57
Figure 43 | Distinctive public realm, landscape and street furniture, Lovedon Fields, Winchester 57
Figure 44 | Public realm with integrated landscape, Cambridge 57
Figure 45| Overview of a section of the existing runway 59
Figure 46 | Density and Height 60
Figure 47 | Green edges and corridors 61
Figure 48 | Providing bird boxes will contribute to net gain 64
Figure 49 | Landscapes designed for sustainable drainage and flood resilience 65
Figure 50 | Exemplar sustainable buildings, Hanham Hall, Bristol 66
Figure 51 | Environmentally sustainable options for drivers 67
Figure 52 | Protected biodiversity areas and corridors 69
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