New reference number: 3.02a

SHELAA reference: WS076 and existing policy reference: RV11(b)

Location: land north of Cavendish Road, Clare

Site area: 2.56 hectares

Preferred options indicative capacity: 53 dwellings

Site map

Policy and capacity considerations

1. The site lies on the eastern edge of Clare, on the northern side of A1092.
2. The site is allocated in the former St Edmundsbury Vision 2031 Local Plan and a development brief for the site has been approved and there is a resolution to grant planning permission.
3. The site comprises paddocks and has been assessed as being of low ecological value and lies outside the conservation area.
4. This site is within the Upper Stour Valley locally valued landscape area.
5. Ongoing discussions with infrastructure providers will establish and define infrastructure requirements generated by the site.
6. Section 106 funding will secure improvements to the footway along the A1092 (Cavendish Road) to the town centre and will secure a new route south to link into the old railway line public right of way.

New reference number: 3.02b

SHELAA reference: WS071

Location: land south of Cavendish Road, Clare

Site area: 5.36 hectares

Preferred options indicative capacity: 45 dwellings and public car park

Site map

Policy and capacity considerations

1. The site comprises an arable field and semi-improved grassland. To the east of the site lies the sewage treatment works and to the south is Clare Castle Country Park County Wildlife Site (CWS). Part of the disused railway line links the site to the River Stour.
2. A development brief is required.
3. The proposal should seek to enhance footpath and cycleway access to the town centre.
4. Opportunity to provide a car park to serve the country park accessed from a footpath to the south of the site.
5. Provide a wide buffer to the existing right of way to the south, to Clare Castle Country Park CWS.
6. Safeguard a footpath connection to the public right of way (PRoW) on the existing railway embankment to the south.
7. Provide an appropriate landscape buffer to open countryside to the east.
8. Retain and enhance boundary features, tree belt and hedgerows with an appropriate buffer.
9. This site is within the Upper Stour Valley locally valued landscape area.
10. Part of this site is in close proximity to a safeguarded waste facility and any new development should take steps to ensure that it will not inhibit the operation of the waste site. The extent of the cordon sanitaire should be defined in the development brief.
11. This site is partially or wholly within a minerals consultation area. The quantity and quality of the minerals resources beneath the site and the feasibility of either: extraction prior to development of the site, or use of some of the sand and gravel in the development itself should be assessed.
12. Ongoing discussions with infrastructure providers will establish and define infrastructure requirements generated by the site.