Developments

General Documents
See the Parish Council Web Site for the most up to date information on development and planning issues

Proposed (163) Homes (Chestnut Rise) Consultation Web Site

Proposed Plan 350 New Homes (Newmarket Road) (PDF)

Burwell Vision (PDF)
Woodside Meadows - 91 Park Homes (Starting from £240,000)
Woodside Meadows Park Homes
2022
More information at: Turners Parks
Mandeville Park - About half a dozen new houses off Low Road, around 850K each. Mar-2021
Mandeville Park
Mandeville Park
2022
More information at: Artisan Developments
Construction of a 50MW battery storage development on Weirs Drove- Feb 2021


Battery Site - Burwell
2022
Press Release (PDF File)
PDF Press Release
More information at SMS Web Site SMS Logo
Goosehill_Farm_Solar_Farm - 2020
New House Replacing Demolished Bungalow Weirs Drove - 2020
Little Fen/Dyson's Drove 2019-
Off Toyse Lane (Demolished Bungalow Site) 2018-
Several houses
The old Crown Pub re-development (2018-
Several houses and included conversion of pub to residential property
Birches Tye (Hopkins Homes)
Started in 2016. 70 units (52 Private and 18 Affordable.)
Birches Tye
Birches Tye (Hopkins Homes)
The Anchor Pub Garden
June 2016, 2 new houses by the river
Dyson's Drove
4 Houses (2016-2017)
Dyson's Drove
Burwell Farm has been bought by the National Trust at a cost of 1.7 million pounds
Flashy National Trust leaflets through the post confirm that the National Trust has acquired 450 acres of land to extend and help preserve the Fen extending from Wicken. See the
Wicken National Trust Site
for more info.
Copperfield Way (Off Isaacson Road)
Another development currently underway (Nov. 2004)
Factory Site re-development
Latest Update (9-June-2002): Construction continues:
Latest Update (27-Apr-2004): Most of the estate is now complete:
Jubilee Green
This park has been updated and improved (Nov. 2004)
New Library
Now completed and open for business (Jan. 2006)
New Skate Park
The skate park is now Complete (Nov. 2004)
Browns of Burwell development
The Browns of Burwell site in North Street has been acquired by
Twigden Homes
. They will be presenting their development plans for the site at the
Parish Council
meeting in the Jubilee Reading Room on the 30th July 2003.
Brown's Site as of February 2004

Construction well under way (Nov. 2004)
New Woodland
The two woods recently planted should help improve the quality of life in the village. These are Priory Wood between Priory Close and Weirs Drove at Crowhall Farm
Village News
Bin changes June 2026
New bin changes
from June 2026
UK's biggest solar farm approved for east of England (Click on image for larger version)
Proposed Solar Farm
Latest Proposals
Project and
Current Status
Millstone Park Housing Development
(350 new homes)
Linden Homes
Web Site
Planning Docs
This Land -
Councillors
Express Concerns
This Land -
Council plays down
fears over loan
This Land Business Plan?
BBC News
Man guilty of murdering Saudi Arabian student
A man is found guilty of stabbing a student who was studying at a summer school in Cambridge.
Hindu temple wins first round fight over sale to mosque
A judge rules against the council, which has decided to sell a building to an Islamic group.
Voting at shopping centres to be piloted in May elections
Findings from the experiment will be published later this year and inform future electoral reform.
New Darwin Green school date 'wildly optimistic'
A Cambridge school initially hoped to open in September 2020, but still has no planning permission.
Train delays after vehicle strikes railway bridge
Greater Anglia says there was disruption to journeys earlier after a vehicle hit a bridge.
'Interviewing Ian Huntley troubled me, so I called police'
Brian Farmer was the first reporter to interview the double murderer, before his subsequent arrest.
Your Voice – on your local BBC
Tell your local BBC team about the issues you would like to see them investigate.
Alterations specialist urges shoppers to avoid fast fashion
A charity says that almost half the textiles used in the UK end up in household waste.
Remains found three years after Ben Nevis walker reported missing
Harvey Christian, from Cambridgeshire, was reported missing while walking on Ben Nevis in January 2023.
Reporter told police about Ian Huntley's troubling tale
Journalist Brian Farmer recalls the day an interview with murderer Ian Huntley raised deep suspicion.
'You know when you've been splashed with bin juice'
Chris Lively has been a refuse collector working for Cambridge City Council since 1999.
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