Cambridge Partnerships - thriving new communities

This scheme isn’t simply about providing high quality housing.

Success will be measured by our ability to create well thought-out, sustainable communities that address the aspirations of the people who will live there.

The partnership will work with local communities during the long and complex planning process. We will use the influence we have to help all stakeholders create and maintain the right facilities that will enhance, rather than compete with, those facilities that already exist.

Our plan will be to engage consistently with the people who come to live in these evolving, developing communities, making sure we meet their demands, welcoming and involving them as they arrive.

We will deliver the first 3,300 affordable new homes. These will form the foundations to develop sustainable new communities with the infrastructure and facilities to support up to 16,000 new homes by 2021.

Because no two sites are exactly the same, no two plans are identical. So here is the current status of all three new communities.

Southern Fringe

Outline planning applications for Trumpington Meadows, Bell School, Clay Farm and Glebe Farm are in the process of being submitted.

Northstowe

English Partnerships and Gallaghers submitted an Outline Joint Planning Application in December 2007.

North West Cambridge (NIAB)

The NIAB site is contained within Cambridge City, with the land allocated for residential development in the Cambridge City Local Plan. David Wilson Homes is also seeking land to be released for residential development to the north of the NIAB site within Southern Cambridgeshire for another 1,000 new homes. It’s unlikely the inspector will make any decisions on additional land until late 2009.

For further information about any of these sites, please click on the appropriate link below.

Southern Fringe:
www.cambridge.gov.uk
www.scambs.gov.uk

Northstowe:
www.northstowe.uk.com

North West Cambridge (NIAB)
www.cambridgeonline.co.uk