Accent the social housing provider has submitted a planning application for 15 affordable homes on Green Belt land off Balsham Road Fulbourn.  As this is an “Exception” to planning policy being in the Green Belt the affordable homes will be ring-fenced for local people.

Originally Accent wanted to build 21 affordable homes to meet the Housing Needs Surveys which have consistently shown a need for such homes in a very expensive village and the wishes of the Parish Plan for affordable homes particularly for young people, but it was was scaled back because of the sensitivity of the site.

The plan also requires one access from Balsham Road not the two originally presented to the Parish Council.

In my autumn Focus I asked residents in the village for their views on this (with 21 homes) and the overwhelming majority accepted it subject to the affordable homes being ring fenced for local people.