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The scene on developments is confused at the moment as far as I can see.

Starting with the basics, an application for 15 houses is being considered by SCDC  for Moores Farm off the Fowlmere Road. 50% of these should be for affordable housing. - approved but may be being modified.

South Cambridgeshire District Plan limits development to 8 dwellings or up to 16 in exceptional circumstances.

Also locally, now we have the Burlington Press development - but if that goes ahead expect an exclusive estate on the old school site combined with the methodist site?

Foxton's area available for development is currently (June 07) under review in SCDC LDF multiple protests have been lodged about adding the field between the A10 and Villiers Park - just space for a small Tesco and about 30 or so houses.

On a larger scale we are told that the East of England Regional Assembly, a government quango, are under pressure to add 18,000 houses to the current development target. If accepted this could include extensive building north of Royston near to the railway line possibly including a new town / village of up to 5,000 houses to accommodate the influx into the area resulting from an extra runway at Stansted. Currently the initiative seems to lie with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, late 'two jags', but I can't see who benefits yet. All the local authorities were arguing that there is no proven need, but it's gone ominously quiet. I don't think this includes the 9000 houses at Northstowe but I could be wrong.

See the Buchanon Report (A study of the relationship between transport and development in the London-Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough Growth Area - dated Aug 04) - but it's a huge download (7055kb pdf)

End of March Go-East aka office of the deputy prime minister fights back over 26,000 comments on existing proposal by adding 29,000 more houses in the region see this (word doc) or for the whole response this web page could be a case of upping the numbers so that the first proposal seems OK?

If you are interested in a flyover on the A10, you might want to look at this 1963 proposal (jpg). This seems to raise a bit of interest on the noticeboard too. Noted as being included in CCC development budget at £6.5m for 2008-9 but is it still there? Get from Royston to Harston faster (then stop!), join the competition to be first of many for a free ambulance trip from Foxton Bottom to Addenbrokes. (At least you'll be able to park in an ambulance)

Barrington quarry seems set to expand despite the apparent backing off by Cemex last year according to a post on the noticeboard linked to a CCC document.

Last modified:30 December, 2007

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