New homes and housing development in Cambourne
Looking up new homes in Cambourne? Most search results push estate agents and developer brochures. This page is the other half of the picture: how housing pressure lands on Cambourne and South Cambridgeshire when homes are bolted onto villages without the water, grid, surgeries, schools or transport to match.
Across South Cambridgeshire, the government wants to build 1,205 homes a year. Sustained for thirty years, that is about 36,150 homes — +48% on existing stock in South Cambridgeshire.
Spread across the 77 settlements in South Cambridgeshire, that is an average of 15.6 homes a year per settlement — about 469 over thirty years if growth were even.
When homes arrive in Cambourne, they almost always arrive as a bolt-on: a field at a time, each application too small to trigger the reservoir, the substation, the surgery or the station. That is the pattern we are against.
What we've got now
3,652
hours of sewage spills in South Cambridgeshire in 2025
Worst at Foxton (Cambs) WRC
1,533
patients per GP near Cambourne
1
schools over capacity near Cambourne
1,044 MW
still waiting to connect to the grid
At Burwell
24 mins
to the nearest A&E
Addenbrooke's Hospital
23.4s
delay per mile on A-roads in Cambridgeshire
Worst on the A1309
Now they want another 36,150 homes across South Cambridgeshire.
Planning applications near Cambourne
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Common questions about new homes in Cambourne
- Are there new homes planned in Cambourne?
- Medium and large planning applications near Cambourne appear on this page when available. The government wants to build 1,205 homes a year across South Cambridgeshire — about 36,150 homes over thirty years if that rate is sustained.
- How many new homes could South Cambridgeshire see over 30 years?
- The government starting point is about 1,205 homes a year in South Cambridgeshire, or roughly 36,150 over thirty years (+48% on existing stock). That drives scattered edge-of-village growth unless infrastructure is planned first.
- Why does new housing in Cambourne matter for infrastructure?
- When homes arrive as bolt-on estates — a field at a time — each application is often too small to fund a reservoir, substation, surgery or station. Capacity is consumed without city-scale infrastructure ever being built. That is the pattern Stop Urban Sprawl campaigns against.
- How can I object to sprawl around Cambourne?
- Use the planning tracker for live applications in South Cambridgeshire, respond to consultations on the council portal, and sign the Stop Urban Sprawl petition calling for infrastructure-first growth instead of scattering houses across every village.
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Housing pressure rarely stops at the parish boundary.
It's clear that even our current infrastructure is struggling. Sign the petition to stop the urban sprawl around Cambourne.
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