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Project background and timeline
Project background and timeline
Background
CAMBRIDGE LOCAL PLAN 2006
Site allocation for housing on 0.8ha of the 3.27ha Ridgeons site
CAMBRIDGE LOCAL PLAN REVIEW ISSUES AND OPTIONS 2
PART 2 – SITE OPTIONS WITHIN CAMBRIDGE
Draft site allocation for 120 mixed tenure homes on the entire 3.27ha Ridgeons site
CAMBRIDGE DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2014: PROPOSED SUBMISSION
Draft site allocation for 245 mixed tenure homes on the entire 3.27ha Ridgeons site
POST-SUBMISSION MODIFICATION TO THE CAMBRIDGE DRAFT
LOCAL PLAN 2014
Commitment to producing a Planning and Development Brief for the Ridgeons site:
“The site promoters will be expected to prepare a planning and development brief for the site demonstrating
how development will successfully integrate with the existing residential area as well as addressing the
constraints and opportunities of the site. Scale, massing and density considerations in the design and
disposition of new and existing housing will be expected to have regard to the character of the existing area”
Planning and Development Brief
February 2015
March 2015
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CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL & RIDGEONS TEAM
Agreement to jointly prepare a Planning and Development Brief for the site
CONSULTATION 1: THEMES AND FACT FINDING
Exhibition and workshop asking local people to help us decide on the key themes for the
Development Brief. The team can also learn more about the site and wider area.
POST-SUBMISSION MODIFICATION TO THE CAMBRIDGE DRAFT
LOCAL PLAN 2014
Project background and timeline
Commitment to producing a Planning and Development Brief for the Ridgeons site:
“The site promoters will be expected to prepare a planning and development brief for the site demonstrating
how development will successfully integrate with the existing residential area as well as addressing the
constraints and opportunities of the site. Scale, massing and density considerations in the design and
disposition of new and existing housing will be expected to have regard to the character of the existing area”
Planning and Development Brief
February 2015
March 2015
Spring 2015
Summer 2015
Summer 2015
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Development Brief
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- Analysis / themes
- Design Principles
- Framework Plan
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CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL & RIDGEONS TEAM
Agreement to jointly prepare a Planning and Development Brief for the site
CONSULTATION 1: THEMES AND FACT FINDING
Exhibition and workshop asking local people to help us decide on the key themes for the
Development Brief. The team can also learn more about the site and wider area.
PREPARE BACKGROUND CHAPTERS OF DEVELOPMENT BRIEF
Analysis of the site and the wider area organised into agreed themes.
Drafting of design principles and framework plan
CONSULTATION 2: DESIGN PRINCIPLES & FRAMEWORK PLAN
Local people inform the draft design principles and framework plan that will form the
vision for the Development Brief
Draft development brief
Autumn 2015
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PREPARE DRAFT DEVELOPMENT BRIEF
Approval of draft development brief by Cambridge
City Council for six week public consultation
PREPARE
OUTLINE
PLANNING
APPLICATION
To accord with
Summer 2015
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Project background and timeline
Summer 2015
Winter 2015
Winter 2015
Local people inform the draft design principles and framework plan that will form the
vision for the Development Brief
Draft development brief
PREPARE DRAFT DEVELOPMENT BRIEF
Approval of draft development brief by Cambridge
City Council for six week public consultation
Autumn 2015
Autumn 2015
CONSULTATION 2: DESIGN PRINCIPLES & FRAMEWORK PLAN
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CONSULTATION 3: SIX WEEK
PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON DRAFT
DEVELOPMENT BRIEF
PREPARE
OUTLINE
PLANNING
APPLICATION
To accord with
the principles
established in the
brief
Six week public exhibition and online consultation
carried out by Cambridge City Council
FINALISE AND SUBMIT
DEVELOPMENT BRIEF
ADOPTION OF DEVELOPMENT BRIEF
Concurrently or following adoption of the
Cambridge Local Plan
OUTLINE
PLANNING
APPLICATION
SUBMITTED
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Welcome
Ridgeons has plans to relocate its Cromwell
Road branch to a new facility on Coldhams Lane,
Cambridge. Subject to securing the new facility,
the move will free up the Cromwell Road site for
new mixed tenure housing.
Cambridge City Council and Ridgeons Builders
Merchants, with their consultants, are committed
to local people being involved in shaping the new
mixed tenure housing development.
As part of the Cambridge Local Plan 2014:
Proposed Submission, Cambridge City Council
is committed to working with the site promoters
and their team to prepare a ‘Planning and
Development Brief’. The Brief will provide
guidance on land use, access, buildings, open
space and character.
TODAY: Consultation 1: themes and fact-finding
You will have a number of opportunities to see the evolving development brief and share
your thoughts between March and October 2015.
This first stage of consultation is about ‘themes & fact-finding’. We are keen to understand
more about the local area and what you think the priorities are for the Ridgeons site. We
have organised our inital analysis of the area and the site so far under six themes:
1. History and heritage
2. Land use
3. Transport and access
4. Building heights and types
5. Open Space
6. Character and form
Once you have looked through the document we would like to know:
1)
2)
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Have we missed any important themes?
Which of these themes are most important to you?
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Look out for the
red question boxes
throughout the
display, which
contain themespecific questions.
The red banner
at the end of the
document lets
you know how you
can provide your
feedback.
About Ridgeons
Ridgeons Site
Ridgeons is one of the UK’s largest independent
timber and builders merchants and has been in
business for over 100 years. Established by Cyril
Ridgeon on Tenison Road in 1911, a short walk
from Cromwell Road, it now operates from 26
locations across the East of England. Today the
business is owned by the fourth generation of the
Ridgeon family.
Ridgeons Timber and Builders Merchants opened the Cromwell Road
branch in 1996. The Ridgeons Group have owned the site since the 1920s,
when it was used as a timber yard. The 3.27 hectare site is located on the
western side of Cromwell Road behind residential buildings. The site has
no obvious frontage to the street but is accessed from Cromwell Road.
Angela Rushforth, Managing Director of Ridgeons:
“As a family owned business, established in
Cambridge over 100 years ago, we have a longstanding commitment to the city; this is not just as
a major local employer continuing to invest here
but also in terms of our commitment to ensuring
a positive legacy of development on the Cromwell
Road site when we move within Cambridge. We
are optimistic that through public consultation
and detailed research, this can be achieved.”
There are main principal buildings on the site, which are separated by large
areas of paving used for parking, loading and displaying materials. To the
north of the site there is a 3m deep man-made pond surrounded by trees
and hedgerows. The site is outside of any flood risk area.
Most of the site boundary to the north, east and south adjoins rear gardens
of properties on Cromwell Road and Cavendish Place. The western side of
the site adjoins the railway line.
Planning and Development Brief Team
The team of consultants includes: Cambridge
based planning consultants Carter Jonas
(incorporating Januarys); transport consultants TPA;
community engagement consultants GL Hearn; and
Pollard Thomas Edwards, a practice of architects
and urban designers.
The team is carrying out the public consultation and
preparing the Planning and Development Brief on
behalf of Ridgeons and Cambridge City Council.
Cambridge City Council site
allocation for the Ridgeons site in the
draft Cambridge Local Plan 2014
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Theme 1: History and heritage
Theme 1: History and heritage
Existing
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Theme 1: History and heritage
Historic maps and photos
1902
By 1902 much of Romsey Town has been built. The Ridgeons site
is open land, adjacent to the Coldham’s Lane railway junction.
1959-60
The Ridgeons timber yard building increase in number. The sites
to the north of Ridgeons remain open land.
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1926-28
Romsey Town terraces extended to the north and east. Romsey
Recreation Ground is created. The Ridgeons site is shown as open
land. However, Ridgeons timber yard starts operating on the site
in 1928.
1972-74
Allotments are shown at Fairfax Road, Stourbridge Road and
Vinery Road. The land to the north of the Ridgeons site develops
into industrial uses with a depot, factory and engine shed.
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1938-52
Streets and houses are laid out for a northern expansion of
Romsey Town. Ridgeons timber yard buildings can now be seen
on the site.
2015
In 1996 the Ridgeons store opens for business. In the 2000s the
industrial sites to the north of the Ridgeons site are redeveloped
as housing, with a gym on the junction of Coldham’s Lane.
Photos of Mill Road in the late
19th century (source The Real
Cambridge website)
Looking south over the site in the
1930s when it was the Ridgeons
timber yard (source The Story of
Ridgeons: A 100 Year Journey, N.
Watson 2011)