DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY LAND EAST OF NEW ROAD MELBOURN, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, SG8 6BX Illustrative Masterplan - Not to Scale An excellent opportunity to acquire a development site benefitting from outline planning permission for up to 199 dwellings and a care home for up to 75 bed spaces. Site for sale as a whole, or as separate parcels for the residential and care home land. x Royston – 3 miles to the south west x Cambridge – 10 miles to the north east x Meldreth Train Station – 1 mile to the north west x M11 Junction 10 – 6.5 miles to the east (via A505) x Meldreth/Royston to Cambridge Train Station – 20 minutes rail journey time x Royston to London Kings Cross Train Station – 50 minutes rail journey time (All distances and timings are approximate) Enquiries Sarah Cullen Hannah Beamish T: 01223 559 433 T: 01223 559 508 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] James Lankfer T: 01223 559 558 E: [email protected] Please contact James Lankfer for care home only enquires LAND EAST OF NEW ROAD, MELBOURN, CAMBRIDGESHIRE FOR SALE BY INFORMAL TENDER In Brief Description All proposals (with the exception of access which is x Outline planning permission for up to 199 dwellings Land to the east of New Road, Melbourn is located in detail) for the layout, landscaping, scale and and a care home for up to 75 bed spaces in the jurisdiction of South Cambridgeshire District appearance of the dwellings on the residential x Residential land extends to approximately 10.253 Council (SCDC). The site is accessed off New development land and the care home land will be hectares (25.34 acres). Road and lies to the south east of Melbourn village dealt with under reserved matters applications. An x Care home land extends up to approximately 0.606 centre, directly adjacent to the settlement illustrative masterplan, parameter plan and design hectares (1.50 acres). boundary. It is bounded to the north and north and access statement were submitted as part of the x Whole site extends to approximately 10.859 hectares east by East Farm and a number of residential outline application. These documents along with the (26.84 acres). properties, the south by arable farmland and the planning conditions will provide guidance for a x Sought after location in South Cambridgeshire. west by New Road and the rear of the curtilage of reserved matters application. x Full online Information Pack available. two residential properties. There are a number of x For sale by Informal Tender (as a whole or separate mature trees located along the site’s northern Bidwells Planning division were the appointed parcels for the care home and residential land). boundary, with a hedgeline along the western and planning consultant for the outline application. For x Closing date for proposals 12 noon Friday 25 eastern boundaries. any planning related queries, please contact Guy November 2016 Kaddish on 01223 559 278. Copies of all the The whole site extends to approximately 10.859 relevant documents are contained in the online Location hectares (26.84 acres) and is currently open arable Information Pack. Positioned next to the A10, Melbourn is identified within land. The Seller is seeking to sell the site either as Planning Agreements South Cambridgeshire District Council’s emerging Local a whole or as two separate parcels for the A Section 106 Agreement and Unilateral Plan to 2031 as a Minor Rural Centre and is residential land and care home land. Undertaking (together the “Planning Agreements”) approximately 10 miles to the south of Cambridge and 3.5 The residential land extends to approximately were completed on 21 July 2016. The Planning miles to the north of Royston. The village has a good 10.253 hectares (25.34 acres). The care home Agreements are contained within the online range of services and facilities including a primary school, land extends up to approximately 0.606 hectares Information Pack. Melbourn Village College, a science park, a variety of local (1.50 acres). shops, the Melbourn community hub, pubs and a doctors Town and Country Planning The purchaser of the site (or where applicable, surgery. residential land) will be fully liable for all payments Outline planning permission was allowed on and obligations contained within the completed appeal 8 August 2016. The outline planning Melbourn benefits from excellent transport links to Planning Agreements. permission permits the residential development of Cambridge, Royston and London. The A10 is situated to up to 199 dwellings (40% affordable housing) plus Information Pack the north of the village which provides quick access to a care home (not exceeding 9.5m above finished A comprehensive online Information Pack can be both Cambridge and Royston. Melbourn is served by the floor level) of up to 75 beds, new vehicular and downloaded from the dedicated web address as neighbouring Meldreth railway station, providing direct pedestrian accesses from New Road, public open follows: train routes to Cambridge in approximately twenty minutes http://propertysites.bidwells.co.uk/land_east_of space and a landscape buffer. and London Kings Cross station in just over an hour. _new_road_melbourn Royston train station also provides a direct train route into In addition, pedestrian and cycle access is London Kings Cross with a journey time less than 50 proposed at the northern end of the site, which will The Information Pack contains copies of planning, minutes. Melbourn is also served by a regular bus service also serve as an emergency access point. A new technical and legal documents relating to the site. from Cambridge to Royston. footway is proposed along the east side of New Interested Parties will be deemed to have submitted Road from the site access to connect to the proposals in the full knowledge of all the documents existing footway to the north west. within the online Information Pack. Tenure Flood Risk and Drainage Strategy Wayleaves, easements, covenants and rights of The freehold of the property is offered for sale with vacant The Flood Risk Assessment confirms that the site way possession on completion. is located in Zone 1 and is at very low risk of The site is sold subject to all wayleaves, flooding. It identifies that the development can be easements, covenants and rights of way, whether Ground Investigation drained at source via infiltration techniques. or not disclosed. Interested parties are to refer to An intrusive ground investigation survey has been carried the Bidding Guidelines and Legal Report on Title for out on the site. The survey identifies that the ground The foul water from the development will be further information in relation to this. conditions comprise topsoil overlaying a Zig Zag Chalk pumped to the Anglian Water sewer in New Road. formation and that the site’s ground conditions are In order to mitigate the impact of the proposed Retained Strips considered suitable for drainage via soakaways. It should development upon the network, Anglian Water has The Seller shall retain a 1.5m strip along the north be noted that soakaways within the chalk layer are confirmed that of-site reinforcement works can be eastern boundary. Further details of this obligation recommended to be a minimum of 10m from any existing carried out under Section 98 of the Water Industry are set out in the Bidding Guidelines. or proposed structures. Further soakage testing is Act agreement. recommended to be carried out in areas that may contain Method of Sale potential soakaways if the original ground investigation Arboricultural The freehold of the property is offered for sale by report did not cover that area. An Arboricultural Survey identifies that the main Informal Tender. Offers are to be submitted in area of the site does not contain existing trees, writing to Bidwells, Bidwell House, Trumpington The survey report concludes that no contamination or however there are a number along the north east Road, Cambridge, CB2 9LD by 12 noon Friday 25 groundwater issues were identified. boundary, including three Horse Chestnuts. The November 2016 to: Horse Chestnuts are covered by a Tree Archaeology Preservation Order. As part of the application, one x In relation to the residential land and/or site as a An archaeological desk based assessment has been of the Horse Chestnuts fronting onto New Road is whole (including care home land) - Hannah carried out to support the planning application. This proposed to be felled as a result of the emergency Beamish, Bidwells, Trumpington Road, concluded that the site does not contain any designated access to the development. Cambridge, CB2 9LD heritage assets, nor will it affect the significance of designated heritage assets in the surrounding area. Services x In relation to the care home land only – James A foul sewage and utilities assessment was Lankfer, Bidwells, Trumpington Road, Planning condition 17 requires an archaeological scheme prepared to support the outline planning Cambridge, CB2 9LD of works to be submitted to and approved by the local application and is contained in the online planning authority prior to the commencement of any Information Pack. Proposals should be clearly marked ‘Land to the development. It should be noted that archaeological trial East of New Road, Melbourn. – For the attention trenching was carried out to support the application. The report identified that diversionary works will be of Hannah Beamish/James Lankfer.' Endurance Estates has sought a brief from the County required to underground and overground telecoms Archaeologist in respect of the scheme of works. apparatus, and potentially an underground low All proposals are to be in writing in accordance voltage electric cable on New Road. Furthermore, with the Bidding Guidelines as set out in the Ecology it identifies that a new electrical substation and a Information Pack.