Wintringham Park Cambridge Road St Neots Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 25/01884/REM

Council

Date received

26 Sept 2025

Date validated

1 Oct 2025

Description

Reserved Matters application pursuant to Planning Permission for the development of a District Centre (comprising up to 3,770sqm of floorspace) fallling within Use Classes E(a-c) - General Retail, Food and Beverage Retail, and E(g) - Office [Former Use Classes A1-A5 and B1], together with open space, access and parking, electricity substations and utlitiy connections, drainage infrastructure, pedestrian and cycle links, cycle parking, and all other ancillary works and engineering operations. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 10 Oct 2026, 05:34

Site constraints 3

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.

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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.

National infrastructure project 435 m away: A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Road Improvement scheme

The site is 435 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements (at pre-application, 454 m).

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

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Not affected

Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 10 October 2026. 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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Huntingdonshire

Planning Authority Score

3.9/10

Below average

#197 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Huntingdonshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #210 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Huntingdonshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

88%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #155 of 296

95%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #80 of 296

55%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #210 of 296

55%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #250 of 296

69%

Minor dwellings approved

175 decided (1-9 homes)

91%

Major dwellings approved

22 decided (10+ homes)

87%

Change of use approved

52 decided

1,077

Total decisions

125 refused in the year to March 2026