Planning application
Sheepfold Community Square Land To The West Of Cambourne Cambourne CB23 6ER
Works: Extension
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Reserved matters application for the approval of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the detailed design and layout of Community Square within the Sheepfold Neighbourhood, including street furniture, community infrastructure, boundary treatments, surfacing, planting and access arrangements following outline planning permission S/2903/14/OL (Development of up to 2350 residential units including affordable housing retail use classes A1-A5 (up to 1.04 ha) offices/light industry use class B1 (up to 6.25ha) community and leisure facilities use class D1 and D2 (up to 0.92 ha) Two primary schools and one secondary school (up to 11 ha) use class D1 three vehicular access points including the extension and modification of Sheepfold Lane a four arm roundabout provided on A1198/Caxton Bypass and an access point off the A1198 south of the Caxton Gibbet to serve the proposed employment uses a network of segregated pedestrian and cycle routes sustainable drainage system and other infrastructure together with associated earth works parking open space including equipped play playing fields and landscaping)
As published by the council, reference 25/02350/REM
Application record
- Reference
- 25/02350/REM
- Type
- Approval of Reserved Matters
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 16 Jun 2025
- Validated
- 16 Jun 2025
- Ward
- Cambourne
- Parish
- Cambourne CP
- Postcode
- CB23 6ER
Timeline
Dates from the published record
-
16 Jun 2025
Received by South Cambridgeshire
-
23 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
-
Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 11 August 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
South Cambridgeshire took a median of 56 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
- Application: S/2903/14/OL (Decided)
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
24 documents on file for this application
- EOT REQUEST
- LANDSCAPE
- URBAN DESIGN
- PARISH
- ECOLOGY
- CONTAMINATED LAND
- LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
- HOUSING STRATEGY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER
- MAP OF NOTIFIED NEIGHBOURS
- SITE NOTICE
- APPLICATION FORM - NO PERSONAL INFO
- FEE CALCULATION
- ATTACHMENT SUMMARY FROM PORTAL
- SHEEPFOLD SQUARE WEST & COMMUNITY LAYOUT
- SHEEPFOLD COMMUNITY SQUARE GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS
- HARD MATERIALS PALETTE
- SOUTHERN AREA SECTION ELEVATIONS
- LANDSCAPE COMPLIANCE STATEMENT
- COVERING LETTER_TL_V0-1_040625
- NORTHERN AREA SECTION ELEVATIONS
- DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
- SOFT MATERIALS PALETTE
- SHEEPFOLD COMMUNITY SQUARE RED LINE BOUNDARY PLAN
Watch members (£5 a month) open the document list from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with South Cambridgeshire for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year South Cambridgeshire decided reserved matters applications in a median of 152 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About reserved matters applications
A reserved matters application fills in the detail held back from an earlier outline permission, judged against that permission rather than the principle of development. More in our guide to planning application types.
Nearby applications
Within 0.3 miles
-
Sheepfold West Square Land To The West Of Cambourne Cambourne CB23 6ER
Reserved matters application for the approval of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the detailed design and layout of the West Square within the Sheepfold Neighbourhood, including street furniture, boundary treatments, surfacing, planting and access arrangements following outline planning permission S/2903/14/OL (Development of up to 2350 residential units including affordable housing retail use classes A1-A5 (up to 1.04 ha) offices/light industry use class B1 (up to 6.25ha) community and leisure facilities use class D1 and D2 (up to 0.92 ha) Two primary schools and one secondary school (up to 11 ha) use class D1 three vehicular access points including the extension and modification of Sheepfold Lane a four arm roundabout provided on A1198/Caxton Bypass and an access point off the A1198 south of the Caxton Gibbet to serve the proposed employment uses a network of segregated pedestrian and cycle routes sustainable drainage system and other infrastructure together with associated earth works parking open space including equipped play playing fields and landscaping)
Granted Reserved matters Extension 46 docs -
Parcels 1.3a And 1.3d Land To The West Of Cambourne Cambourne Cambridgeshire CB23 6ER
Submission of details required by condition 2 (Materials - Revised Materials plan showing replacement tile) of planning permission 20/02543/REM
Granted Conditions 7 docs -
Parcels 1.3a And 1.3d Land To The West Of Cambourne Cambourne Cambridgeshire CB23 6ER
94% historically approved · decision due ~27 Aug
Non material amendment on application 20/02543/REM for relocation of 2no. Juliet balconies serving the maisonettes on plots 897 and 898 from the south-west elevation to the south-east elevation. The amendment is required to resolve conflict between plots 897 and 898 on the application site and plots 70 and 71 on the adjacent Taylor Wimpey Parcel 1.3c (20/01640/REM, amended by 20/01640/NMA1, 20/01640/NMA2, 20/01640/NMA3, and 20/01640/NMA4) in respect of overlooking. The relocation of the Juliet balconies to the south-east elevation will ensure that the amenity and privacy of the rear gardens of the Taylor Wimpey dwellings is preserved for future residents.
Awaiting decision Amendments 8 docs -
Parcel 3.2A, Cambourne West, Cambourne
Submission of details required by condition 4 (Hard and Soft Landscaping) of reserved matters application 25/00126/REM
Granted Conditions 35 docs -
Parcel 3.2A, Cambourne West, Cambourne
Submission of details required by condition 7 (Landscape Management and Maintenance Plan) of reserved matters application 25/00126/REM
Granted Conditions 7 docs -
Parcel 3.2A, Cambourne West, Cambourne
Submission of details required by condition 3 (Landmark Buildings) of reserved matters application 25/00126/REM
Granted Conditions 18 docs
Other reserved matters applications
In South Cambridgeshire
-
26/02776/REM Granted
7 Honeysuckle Close Caxton Cambridgeshire CB23 3BB
Reserved matters application for the layout, scale, appearance and landscaping of plot 7 following outline planning permission of 20/04704/OUT (Outline planning for the erection of up to nine self-build/custom-build dwellings and associated garaging with some matters reserved except for access from Rosemary Greene Close).
-
26/03515/REM Awaiting decision
Northstowe Phase 2 Station Road Longstanton Cambridgeshire
Reserved matters application for the approval of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale of a new access road and associated footways connecting Stirling Road to the proposed Town Hub, together with associated landscaping, highway infrastructure and parking following outline planning permission S/2011/14/OL, and the related partial discharge of outline conditions 9 (Design Code), 18 (Site Wide Surface Water Drainage Strategy), 19 (Drainage - Reserved Matters), 23 (Landscape and Design), 24 (Landscape Management and Maintenance Plan), 27 (Ecological Management Plan), 39 (Construction Environmental Management Plan), 41 (External Artificial Lighting) and 42 (Operational Noise) and 53 (Parking Management Strategy).
-
26/03440/REM Awaiting decision
Northstowe Phase 2 Station Road Longstanton Cambridgeshire
Reserved matters application for the approval of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for Strategic Landscaping works to Pillbox Pool following outline planning permission S/2011/14/OL, and the related partial discharge of outline conditions 9 (Design Code), 18 (Site Wide Surface Water Drainage Strategy), 19 (Drainage - Reserved Matters), 23 (Landscape and Design), 24 (Landscape Management and Maintenance Plan), 27 (Ecological Management Plan), 30 (Management of Pillboxes), 39 (Construction Environmental Management Plan), 41 (External Artificial Lighting) and 42 (Operational Noise).
-
26/03359/REM Awaiting decision
Girton College Huntingdon Road Girton Cambridgeshire CB3 0JG
Reserved matters application for approval of appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the Installation of 1no. informal natural grass pitch and 2no. Multi-Use Games Areas enclosed with ball stop fencing for 2no. tennis courts (with line marking to accommodate netball and pickleball) together with associated landscaping, equipment storage and provision of new pathway to existing Woodland Walk following outline planning permission 22/00887/OUT (Outline application for the construction of student residential accommodation together will ancillary meeting, office and social space (maximum 14700sqm ), auditorium (maximum 1300sqm) replacement buildings and grounds maintenance workshops, one new and relocated sports pitch, additional ball-stop fencing, relocated tennis courts, a new vehicular access and replacement car park with some matters reserved except for access) as varied by 26/01599/S73 (S73 to vary condition 3 (approved drawings) of ref: 22/00887/OUT (Outline application for the construction of student residential accommodation together will ancillary meeting, office and social space (maximum 14700sqm ), auditorium (maximum 1300sqm) replacement buildings and grounds maintenance workshops, one new and relocated sports pitch, additional ball-stop fencing, relocated tennis courts, a new vehicular access and replacement car park with some matters reserved except for access) to update parameter landscape and land use plan.)
-
26/03381/REM Awaiting decision
9 Soule Croft Gamlingay Cambridgeshire SG19 3FZ
Plot 9 - Reserved matters application for access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the construction of a self/custom build dwelling following outline planning permission 24/01080/OUT (Outline planning application with all matters reserved (except for access, layout of roads and plots) for nine self/custom build residential dwellings (replacement of planning permission S/3170/17/OL)