Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

We can confirm that, for the reasons outlined within our statement (appended to our submission) that our clients’ site (Grange Field, Church Street, Great Shelford, CB22 5AT, Council ref. 40128) is suitable, available for development now and achievable and would be appropriate as an allocation for residential development (possibly including market housing, affordable housing, key worker housing, older persons housing, residential care home, custom or self-build housing, specialist ‘other’ forms of housing) in addition to publicly accessible open space and/or recreational/leisure uses.

My clients’ site does have a direct and existing access onto the adopted public highway and as illustrated on the plan found at Appendix A of our accompanying Statement. Access is shared with the adjoining Peacocks development with rights to improve the vehicular access onto my client’s site. Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service should, therefore, amend their HELAA in light of this fact when it is next updated, i.e., my client’s site is ‘suitable’ for development given there is an appropriate (existing) access that leads directly onto the public highway.

Parker Planning consider that our clients’ site would make a valuable contribution to housing land supply as part of a more logical, coherent, and crucially sustainable settlement expansion scheme than would be the case were proposed site S/RSC/HW to be allocated.