Publication Date: 19-03-2025 09:00
Plans submitted for local centre at Springstead Village in Cherry Hinton
Detailed plans have been submitted for a local centre at Springstead Village in Cherry Hinton which would provide a food store, two shops and a community hub/café for the new neighbourhood.
The plans also include a new phase of 292 new homes, alongside green open space including two parks and allotments.
Springstead Village is a collaboration between homebuilder Bellway and Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Group, with outline planning permission to build 1,200 new homes on land which previously formed part of Cambridge Airport.
To date, the joint venture has secured detailed permission for 487 new homes at the site across four previous reserved matters applications, with 75 of these properties so far built.
Ulrich van Eck, Project Manager for the Bellway Latimer joint venture, said: “The local centre at Springstead Village will form the heart of this new neighbourhood, with shops and a community hub set around a market square.
“Our detailed plans were finalised after an extensive public engagement process within the local community. We were very keen to ensure we created a platform for dialogue and exchange between the design and project team, local residents, and other key stakeholders.
“The process included posting a newsletter to more than 4,000 businesses and homes in the area, hosting hands-on 3D model workshops at a ‘Design Evening’ with local teenagers and organising an online survey and public engagement evening. There were meetings with local councillors and a presentation to the joint development control committee of Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council.
“The feedback we received through this series of consultations helped shape the detailed designs. Changes made to the original design included the provision of enhanced outdoor weather protected spaces and upstairs rooms at the community hub and more cycle and car parking facilities in the Market Square.”
The submitted design includes a community hub/café building and three retail units, including a food store, around the Market Square, allotments with an associated clubhouse, two neighbourhood parks, and a greenway that extends to nearby March Lane.
The homes within this part of Springstead Village will be a mix of one and two-bedroom apartments and two to four-bedroom houses, with 39 homes for private sale and 36 affordable properties available for local people through low-cost rent or shared ownership, as well as nine customisable homes.
Ulrich said: “Springstead Village has been designed as a sustainable neighbourhood with low-carbon technologies included, such as air source heat pumps (ASHPs) used to heat all the houses.
“The green areas planned will effectively combine play and social spaces while also creating a habitat-rich environment. This will be achieved by creating timber climbing piles, stepping logs and play boulders, alongside areas for public art, adventure trails and sensory planting.”
There is currently a selection of one and two-bedroom apartments, two-bedroom maisonettes and two and four-bedroom houses available to reserve at Springstead Village, with prices starting from £299,995.
Three-bedroom shared ownership properties start from £210,000 for a 35% share.
For more information, call the sales team on 01223 081346 or visit https://www.bellway.co.uk/new-homes/essex/springstead-village.
For more details on shared ownership visit https://www.latimerhomes.com/new-build-homes/cambridgeshire/cambridge/springstead-village or call 0300 100 0309.
