Planning application
Waterbeach Barracks And Airfield Key Phase 1 North And East. Denny End Road Waterbeach Cambridgeshire CB25 9PA
Works: Demolition
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Proposal
Reserved Matters approval of access, appearance, landscape, layout and scale in respect of works to construct Space for Imaginative Play at Waterbeach Woods, Waterbeach Gardens, Waterbeach Gardens East and Waterbeach Lakeside East, Local Area for Play and Community Play at Waterbeach Gardens East, and Local Equipped Area for Play at Waterbeach Gardens, ground remodelling, and associated works at the existing located at Key Phase 1 of the Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield development (Ref: S/0559/17/OL), including: hard and soft landscaping, land reprofiling, planting, any necessary demolition, areas for construction use and temporary stockpiling, and works to create construction access.
As published by the council, reference 26/00531/REM
Application record
- Reference
- 26/00531/REM
- Type
- Approval of Reserved Matters
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 11 Feb 2026
- Validated
- 11 Feb 2026
- Ward
- Milton & Waterbeach
- Parish
- Waterbeach CP
- Postcode
- CB25 9PA
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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11 Feb 2026
Received by South Cambridgeshire
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23 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 8 April 2026, 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 61 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
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David Lock Associates Ltd Agent, registered in Milton Keynes
Active · incorporated 1989 · Milton Keynes
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Waterbeach Barracks Key Phase 1 North Denny End Road Waterbeach Cambridgeshire CB25 9PA
Reserved matters application for approval of access, appearance, landscape, layout and scale in respect of the provision of an electricity substation located in Key Phase 1 North including necessary landscape works and hardstanding, any necessary engineering works, ground remodelling and any demolition following outline planning permission S/0559/17/OL (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). An Environmental Statement was submitted to South Cambridgeshire District Council (the Local Planning Authority) with the Waterbeach Barracks outline planning application.
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Waterbeach Barracks And Airfield, Key Phase 1, Parcels 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2.
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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: S/0559/17/OL (Environmental Impact Assessment application with Environmental Statement)
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Parcels 2.2 And 3.2 Waterbeach Barracks Denny End Road Waterbeach Cambridgeshire
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Parcels 2.2 And 3.2 Waterbeach Barracks Denny End Road Waterbeach Cambridgeshire
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Awaiting decision Conditions 16 docs -
Parcels 2.2 And 3.2 Waterbeach Barracks Denny End Road Waterbeach Cambridgeshire
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Submission of details required by condition 4 (Roads, cycleways and footpaths) of Reserved Matters application 25/01318/REM
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