Waterbeach Barracks And Airfield, Key Phase 1, Parcels 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2. Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Reserved matters approval (appearance, access, landscaping, layout and scale) for the development of four blocks comprising 387 Build to Rent (BtR) dwellings with associated resident amenity areas (Use Class C3) and 482 sq.m (GEA) of flexible commercial floorspace (Use Class E), areas of open space and public realm including a Lakeside Promenade and Civic Plaza, cycle storage, waste storage and substation buildings and all associated infrastructure including: access junctions, access/internal roads, parking, utilities infrastructure including alignment of service runs, foul and surface water drainage infrastructure, roof mounted solar panels, green roofs, street lighting, external hard landscaping, soft landscaping and planting, ecological mitigation, footways / cycleways, car and cycle parking, boundary treatments, street furniture, lake-edge engineering works, any necessary temporary stockpiling of construction materials, areas for construction use, land reprofiling, temporary haul routes and any necessary demolition at Parcels 6.1, 6.2, 7.1 and 7.2 at Key Phase 1 of the Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield development pursuant to Condition 3 of the outline planning consent ref: (Environmental Impact Assessment application with Environmental Statement) Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved on 26 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 27 Oct 2026
Documents 53
Decision & officer reports 2
Statements & assessments 22
Plans & drawings 2
Application forms 2
Consultation & comments 14
Other documents 11
Associated applications 13
Part of
Conditions 11j, 11l discharged · 11e, 11f, 11g, 11h, 11i, 11o awaiting decision · 20, 24 decided (outcome not recorded) · 10i, 21 varied
- Reserved mattersReserved matters approval (appearance, access, landscaping, layout and scale)…This application26/02870/REM
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Site constraints 3
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Important details
- Council
- South Cambridgeshire
- Application type
- Approval of Reserved Matters
- Postcode
- CB25 9PA
- Received
- 29 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 29 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Milton & Waterbeach
- Parish
- Waterbeach CP
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 28 Oct 2026
- Decision
- Granted Permission
- Decision date
- 26 Oct 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated Decision
- Agent
- David Lock Associates
How this decision compares
Decided in 89 days from validation, 33 days slower than South Cambridgeshire's median of 56 for commercial and major works. Approved, as 93% of commercial and major works here are.
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Public comments
3 neighbours consulted · Last counted 27 Oct 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Site or press notice
- 6 Aug 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 28 Oct 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
Historical activity at this location
25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
Nearby activity
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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Referenced application
Council archive
Waterbeach Barracks And Airfield Site Waterbeach Cambridgeshire
Outline Planning Application for up to 6500 dwellings (including up to 600 residential institutional units) business retail community leisure and sports uses a hotel new primary and secondary schools green open spaces including parks ecological areas and woodlands principal new accesses from the A10 and other points of access associated infrastructure groundworks and demolition with all matters reserved except for the first primary junction from the A10 and construction access from Denny End Road.
- Received
- 17 Feb 2017
- Decided
- 27 Sep 2019
- Outcome
- Approved
- Homes
- 6500