Category: Planning Application News

The planning application for the southern half of the huge new housing development off Worts’ Causeway is now available for our inspection.

Almost inevitably, after this house was hugely extended, comes the application to make it into a “house of multiple occupancy”.

Queen Edith’s may be a special part of the city, but the most important lesson in this campaign has been that almost all these properties could be demolished, and there is nothing the residents or planners can do to prevent it.

Plans have been submitted for a major redevelopment of the Bell Language School on Red Cross Lane, with up to 200 student accommodation rooms.

The owners of the former “Hollies” residential care home on Queen Edith’s Way have notified the council of their intention to demolish the building.

Many people have asked for an update on the threatened demolition of the house at 291 Hills Road and its replacement with two unpleasant blocks of flats by local company Gibson Developments. After the refusal of permission for the development by the City Council’s Planning Committee in April, the company has returned with a whole

The history and sheer class of 292 Hills Road (York House), built by Cyril Ridgeon in 1924, clearly doesn’t mean enough to stop the current owner from wanting to destroy it. Neighbours have tried to get the house listed, with support from CambridgePPF, but their request was rejected.

Local residents campaigning to save 291 Hills Road from developers have produced a video making their case.

This is not NIMBYism. Many of the supporters of the campaign (including me) accept that we have an affordable housing shortage in the area. But more three-quarters-of-a-million-pound flats is not what the area needs – there are plenty of unsold examples of those. Here’s how you can help.

Another application to demolish a house and squeeze two new ones in its place.

Here we go again on Queen Edith’s Way. This time it’s a bungalow which they want to demolish to build four blocks of flats.

Another application to demolish houses and replace them with apartment blocks, this time on Mowbray Road by the Budgens roundabout.

Another application to demolish a 4 bedroom detached house and replace it with a “residential development of flats” (2 one-bedroom and 3 two-bedroom).

Application to extend and convert a detached house to form 7 ‘residential units’. There is far less information given than is usual with applications like this.

The proposed demolition of the house at 291 Hills Road (‘Raylands’) and its replacement by a modern collection of flats has motivated many local residents to organise in opposition to the plan. Here’s an update on what’s happening.

Gibson Developments Ltd want to demolish another house on Queen Edith’s Way (at the corner of Hills Road), this time replacing it with 15 flats.

Sorry it took me a while to draw attention to this one. Another in a series of applications to demolish a bungalow by the Baldock Way allotments, which is not particularly old or in poor repair.

Cambridge Live, the charity set up to run local events such as the Cambridge Folk Festival, wants to build new gates on to the field opposite Netherhall School.

Yet another application to divide a garden in two, and build a house in the half away from the applicant’s house but up against a neighbour’s house.

Sound objections from local residents were once again ignored by Cambridge City Council’s Planning Committee this week, which approved new houses in Queen Edith’s Way and Cavendish Avenue without addressing neighbours’ concerns.

For those of you who like to know about local planning applications, I thought I’d do a roundup of what’s happened to some of those I’ve highlighted here in recent months. It includes an important petition which you might like to see, and news about Phase II of the Hills Road Cycleway.