Burwell Village, Cambridge England

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

Stanford Park Mobile Home Plan (PDF)

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

Burwell Vision (PDF)

Birches Tye (Hopkins Homes)

Started in 2016. 70 units (52 Private and 18 Affordable.)

Birches Tye (Hopkins Homes)

The Anchor Pub Garden

June 2016, 2 new houses by the river

Dyson's Drove

4 Houses (2016-2017)

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

Events

Events Calendar
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Action

• 12 Stops - Fund Raising Page For Little Miracles

• Aura Power, a renewable energy developer, is looking to develop a battery-based energy storage system (BESS) on land at Weirs Drove, Burwell

• View PDF File
• Proposed Battery Storage Facility - Parish Council Questions and Answers
• More information on RADE Web Site

Local Business

Area Photos

Village News

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

Newmarket Journal Cambridge Independent Cambs. Evening News

BBC News - Cambridgeshire

Huntingdon retirement flats evacuated after blaze
Police help evacuate 32 residents from their flats after a fire broke out in the top floor.

Abandoned seal pup rescued from Cambridgeshire river bank
The pup, only weeks old, had been abandoned and would have certainly died, rescuers say.

King's College racism row: Students support academic
Porters at King's College in Cambridge are accused of "hassling" non-white staff and students.

Cambourne child rapist jailed for crimes against girl
Police say the victim was 10 years old when the abuse started.

Rikki Neave death: No charges over schoolboy murder
Prosecutors say there is "insufficient evidence" to charge a man over the death of Rikki Neave, six.

Cambridge Museum of Zoology reopens after £4m facelift
Sir David Attenborough says the museum featuring Charles Darwin finds is "of the highest importance".

Mary Beard on big thinkers and 'sexist rants'
What's it like to be a public intellectual in age of echo chamber social media and fake news?

Oliver Cromwell's 'rare' funeral banner sells for £16k
It is one of only four survivors out of more than 2,000 banners used at the Lord Protector's funeral.

Addenbrooke's 'silly' cancer nurse Debbie Bye found after appeal
Liz Brown finds nurse Debbie Bye, who helped to make the 14-year-old girl's cancer "less painful".

Godwit birds released after WWT spring flood rescue
There are fewer than 50 breeding pairs of the endangered birds left in the UK.

Siriki Dembele: Peterborough sign Grimsby's promising forward
League One Peterborough United sign Grimsby Town forward Siriki Dembele on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.