New housing in South Cambridgeshire District Council
We read South Cambridgeshire District Council's planning register every day. We hold 14,856 of its planning applications going back to 2016, and 79 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 148% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 148% (2025)
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 14,856
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 71 | 18 | 4 |
| 2025 | 32 | 18 | 7 |
| 2024 | 57 | 29 | 9 |
| 2023 | 53 | 32 | 10 |
| 2022 | 45 | 25 | 11 |
| 2021 | 60 | 32 | 8 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,200 | North West Cambridge Development Request for an EIA Scoping Opinion with respect to the proposed development of up to 4,200 dwellings, 1,675 student bedspaces, 675 co-living units, 6,500sqm senior living accommodation, 100,000sqm of flexible employment… 24/04479/SCOP | At appeal | 28 Nov 2024 |
| 3,800 | Land Between Huntingdon Road, Madingley Road And M11 Eddington North West Cambridge Cambridgeshire Outline planning application (all matters reserved except for means of access to the public highway) for a phased mixed use development, including demolition of existing buildings and structures, such development… 25/03753/OUT | At appeal | 26 Sept 2025 |
| 3,800 | Land Between Huntingdon Road And M11 And Madingley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire Outline planning application (all matters reserved except for means of access to the public highway) for a phased mixed use development, including demolition of existing buildings and structures, such development… 25/03746/OUT | At appeal | 26 Sept 2025 |
| 400 | Land Between Mingle Lane And Hinton Way Stapleford Cambridgeshire EIA Screening Opinion under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for upto 400 new dwellings including provision of affordable housing. 26/02928/SCRE | At appeal | 31 Jul 2026 |
| 250 | Land North Of Cambridge Road Linton Cambridgeshire EIA Screening Opinion under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 250 dwellings, new site for a doctors surgery, open… 25/04492/SCRE | Approved | 18 Nov 2025 |
| 140 | Street Record High Street Hauxton Cambridgeshire EIA Screening Opinion under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for residential development with an upper limit 140 homes. 26/02161/SCRE | Approved | 9 Jun 2026 |
| 138 | Street Record St Neots Road Hardwick Cambridgeshire EIA Screening Opinion under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for upto 138 residential dwellings along with associated infrastructure including provision of new site… 26/02947/SCRE | Approved | 3 Aug 2026 |
| 138 | Land South Of St Neots Road Hardwick Cambridgeshire Outline application for the development of up to 138 residential dwellings along with associated infrastructure including provision of new site access, internal access roads, parking, drainage, public open space… 26/01263/OUT | At appeal | 30 Mar 2026 |
| 83 | Babraham Research Campus 101 High Street Babraham Cambridgeshire CB22 3AT EIA Scoping Opinion request pursuant to Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) Proposed Development consists of an outline application (all matters… 25/00340/SCOP | At appeal | 29 Jan 2025 |
| 65 | Land Off Balsham Road Linton Cambridgeshire CB21 4LW Outline planning application for the erection of up to 65 dwellings with public open space, landscaping, sustainable urban drainage system (SuDS) and vehicular access. All matters to be reserved except for means of… 26/02429/OUT | At appeal | 26 Jun 2026 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Babraham
- Balsham
- Bar Hill
- Barrington (South Cambridgeshire)
- Barton (South Cambridgeshire)
- Bassingbourn
- Bourn
- Boxworth
- Cambourne
- Castle Camps
- Caxton
- Comberton
- Coton
- Cottenham
- Dry Drayton
- Duxford
- Elsworth
- Eltisley
- Fen Ditton
- Fen Drayton
- Fowlmere
- Foxton (South Cambridgeshire)
- Fulbourn
- Gamlingay
- Girton
- Grantchester
- Graveley
- Great Abington
- Great Chishill
- Great Eversden
- Great Shelford and Stapleford
- Great Wilbraham
- Guilden Morden
- Hardwick (South Cambridgeshire)
- Harlton
- Harston
- Haslingfield
- Hauxton
- Heathfield (South Cambridgeshire)
- Heydon
- Highfields Caldecote
- Hinxton
- Histon and Impington
- Horningsea
- Horseheath
- Ickleton
- Kingston (South Cambridgeshire)
- Kneesworth
- Landbeach
- Linton (South Cambridgeshire)
- Litlington
- Little Abington
- Little Eversden
- Little Shelford
- Longstanton
- Melbourn
- Meldreth
- Milton (South Cambridgeshire)
- Newton (South Cambridgeshire)
- Northstowe
- Oakington
- Orwell
- Over
- Papworth Everard
- Rampton (South Cambridgeshire)
- Sawston
- Shepreth
- Shudy Camps
- Steeple Morden
- Stow cum Quy
- Swavesey
- Teversham
- Thriplow
- Toft
- Waterbeach
- West Wickham
- West Wratting
- Whittlesford
- Willingham
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: South Cambridgeshire District Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.