Cambourne

Cambourne is South Cambridgeshire's newest and 102nd village settlement located 9 miles west of Cambridge. Cambourne is divided into three village areas, Lower Cambourne, Great Cambourne and Upper Cambourne. The concept of a new settlement near Cambridge was first aired in 1986 when Cambridgeshire County Council published its consultation into the draft Structure Plan. Planning consent consent for the development was granted on 20th April 1994. Fifteen years later and Cambourne is still some way from completion, but new residents continue to be welcomed every week and construction work is well underway in Upper Cambourne. There are now over 2600 properties occupied across the three villages.

Information about Cambourne is available in a new Welcome Pack being delivered to all new residents.

Sackville House in Cambourne

Further Development

Since the Cambourne was originally conceived national planning policy for housing development has placed greater emphasis of making the most efficient use of land, and requires higher minimum densities from new development. The Council therefore has proposed through its Site Specific Policies DPD that the remainder of Cambourne than was envisaged by the Masterplan should be built to higher densities. The Council proposes that the overall net density should be approximately 30 dwellings per hectare. The exact number of new dwellings would be established through detailed design work. The Council ran a consultation workshop with residents and interested bodies during March 2007. In August 2007 an outline planning application (This link will open in a new window) for 950 additional homes was submitted to the Council. The Council has requested a number of amendments to the application and are currently waiting for these to be submitted by the developers.