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for local children and teenagers, and an extensive network of pedestrian and cycle paths. At the conclusion of the archaeological dig, which began in May 2021, This Land is now set to commence the development’s main infrastructure.
THE TEAM
The project is one of a number of sites in Cambridgeshire that have been acquired by This Land, a firm established by Cambridgeshire County Council, its sole shareholder.
As is appropriate for a large scale project, the team working through planning and delivery at Millstone Park is broad-based, including Brookbanks (development management and contract administration), Carter Jonas (planning), Fabrik (masterplanning and landscaping architecture), Paul Basham Associates (highways), Orion (heritage and archaeol- ogy), WSP (flood risk, drainage and engineering designs), Noveus (utilities), and Howes Percival (legal). This Land will undertake a master developer role on the site, in securing planning, technical approvals and delivery of the spine road and infrastructure through the development, with utilities diversions through the new junction to be formed off Newmarket Road and spine road construction commencing in early 2022. The majority of the site will be sold to
the market with obligations on the purchaser to deliver the requisite levels of quality and sustainability. This Land will complete the development of the final phase itself as well as facilitate the development of the self-build elements of the site.
SURROUNDINGS With an absence of existing infrastructure
on and around the site, there was significant potential for the project to increase the visual impact on views from the surrounding area. The planning authority has kept a particularly keen eye on the project because of this. Appropriate landscape buffers were therefore required to mitigate this risk in the landscape masterplan, particularly on the northern and eastern boundaries. Complicating things further however was a listed building to the south-west corner within Melton Farm, which meant that any development on this part of the site needed to be sensitive to the heritage asset.
Helping somewhat on the other bound- aries is the character of the existing residential edge of Burwell, directly adjacent to the site, which has one of the more modern developments. This lent itself more readily to additional housing of an appropriate scale, which would also provide potential improvements to the settlement edge.
Although elements of the eastern settle- ment edge are currently partially screened by trees, the proposed scheme could enhance the existing stark, geometric settlement edge with a softer, vegetated boundary comprising public open space, with filtered views through tree belts and reinstated hedgerows.
STYLE With the boundaries agreed, and the visual impact attenuated, the design team began the process of designing the look and feel of the homes. According to This Land, the team’s approach to designing homes is to take every site and project on its own merits, with each of the company’s schemes being designed to reflect the local vernacular, the commu- nity, and the target customer base. As such, This Land does not have a set
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