Plans for 90 new homes on farmland

Farmland on the edge of a village could be turned into a new housing development.

A developer has said it hopes to build up to 90 homes on the site off Colne Road to the north of Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire.

R2 Developments Limited has submitted an environmental impact assessment screening request to Huntingdonshire District Council, ahead of any potential planning application.

A previous outline planning application for 135 homes on the site was submitted in 2017 but later withdrawn in 2019.

The site was also put forward to potentially be included in the district council's new local plan as a location for new homes.

The district council's assessment of the site suggested it could be suitable for up to 86 homes, in order for it to be a "very low density" development.

An outline application at this stage means full details of the plans would not be presented until a later date.

A more detailed application would then need to be submitted and approved before any homes could be built.

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