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26/01609/SCRE - EIA Screening Opinion Decided
Commercial & major worksNew homes

Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for mixed use Build to Rent and Co-living development with ancillary uses. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
27 Apr 2026
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EIA Screening Not Required
18 May 2026

EIA Screening Not Required on 18 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Jul 2026

Documents 5

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF SCREENING MATRIX Application Committee / Delegated Report · 18 May 2026 View ↗ PDF SCREENING OPINION LETTER Application Decision Notice · 18 May 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF CADENTGAS Consultee Comments · 11 May 2026 View ↗ PDF CADENTGAS Consultee Comments · 11 May 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF NIAB - ES SCREENING REQUEST LETTER Application Information · 27 Apr 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

Green belt: Cambridge
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 1165 m away: A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme.
Not affected
No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
South Cambridgeshire
Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Postcode
CB24 9AT
Received
27 Apr 2026
Validated
27 Apr 2026
Ward
Castle
Case officer
Show
Target decision
18 May 2026
Decision
EIA Screening Not Required
Decision date
18 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Carter Jonas

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
18 May 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

20 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

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2017 Approved
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South Cambridgeshire
Planning Authority Score
8.1/10
Excellent
#25 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

South Cambridgeshire is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #24 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

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South Cambridgeshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #45 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #91 of 296
84%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #24 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #60 of 296
86%
Minor dwellings approved
215 decided (1-9 homes)
96%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
79%
Change of use approved
38 decided
1,509
Total decisions
96 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings