Cambridge - Notice of Issue Specific Hearing

Anglian Water Services Limited
PLANNING INSPECTORATE REFERENCE NUMBER: WW010003
Rule 13(6) Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010
Notice of Issue Specific Hearing
Notice is hereby given that, at the dates, times and locations set out below, the following Hearings will be held by the Planning Inspectorate
(on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Anglian Water Services Limited of Lancaster House, Lancaster Way,
Ermine Business Park, Huntington, PE29 6XU (“the Applicant”) for a Development Consent Order under the Planning Act 2008. The Application
(Reference No. WW010003) was submitted by the Applicant to the Secretary of State c/o the Planning Inspectorate under Section 37 of the
Planning Act 2008 on 28 April 2023 and was accepted on 24 May 2023 (“the Application”).

Interested Parties and Affected Persons wishing to speak at, or attend, the hearings listed above should notify the Planning Inspectorate by
2 April 2024 via the participation event form on the Planning Inspectorate’s website: (https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/
projects/eastern/cambridge-waste-water-treatment-plant-relocation/?ipcsection=overview).
Ahead of the hearing the Applicant will be submitting updated application documents relevant to the upcoming to the Planning Inspectorate.
These documents will be published by 11:59pm on Tuesday 26th March on the Applicant’s project website’s ‘Document Library’ section
(https://cwwtpr.com/document-library).
If you require assistance with registering your attendance, please contact the Case Team at CambridgeWWTPR@planninginspectorate.gov.uk,
or by calling 0303 444 5000.
The hearings will also be held as virtual events, and it will be possible to join them via any standard internet browser or alternatively by
telephone dial-in.
Further information regarding the hearings, the examination of the Application, the full timetable (and amendments), how and when to
register to speak at the hearings, and how and when to make written submissions will also be available on the project page of the Planning
Inspectorate’s website (link above), or by contacting the Inspectorate.
Please note that hearings will be recorded, and the recordings will be published on the project page of the Inspectorate’s website as soon as
practicable after each hearing has taken place.
Any further hearings will be publicised as required by the Inspectorate and by the Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010.
Summary of the Project:
The Application is for development consent to construct, operate and maintain the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant Relocation
project (the ‘proposed WWTP’), on land north of A14 Trunk Road, Milton, Cambridge. The proposed WWTP involves the construction of a new
waste water treatment plant and sludge treatment centre together with the associated waste water and final effluent transfer infrastructure,
comprising a waste water transfer tunnel from the existing Cambridge WWTP to the proposed WWTP, final effluent and storm pipeline with an
outfall to the River Cam, and two new pipelines (rising mains) (the Waterbeach Pipeline) from the Waterbeach New Town development area off
Bannold Drove (Waterbeach) to the proposed WWTP, either via the existing works or direct. Other ancillary development includes a new access
road connecting the proposed WWTP to the local road network at Horningsea Road and the interception and diversion of several rising mains
at the site of the existing Cambridge WWTP to relocate their discharge point from the existing Inlet Works to the new waste water transfer
tunnel. Collectively, all elements are referred to as the ‘proposed WWTP’.
The relocation will enable the delivery of South Cambridgeshire District’s and Cambridge City Council’s Area Action Plan for a new low carbon
city district in North East Cambridge, which could create 8,350 homes and 15,000 jobs over the next 20 years.
The purpose of the proposed WWTP will be to treat all waste water from the Cambridge catchment and wet sludge from the wider region as
the existing Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant currently does. It will also have the capacity to treat the waste water from the Waterbeach
catchment and all anticipated housing growth in the combined Cambridge and Waterbeach catchment area. This is as identified in the housing
trajectory included in the First Proposals version of the Greater Cambridge Local Plan (which identifies all anticipated delivery to 2041), with
the ability to accommodate further growth to the 2080s and beyond, including the homes that will continue to be built at the strategic sites
(including Waterbeach, North East Cambridge and East Cambridge) beyond 2041.
A map showing the location of the proposed WWTP forms part of the Application (4.1 Location and Scheme Order Limits Plan).
This can be viewed at the following link: https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/WW010003/
WW010003-001283-4.1%20Location%20and%20Scheme%20Order%20Limits%20Plan%20%E2%80%93%20change%20request.pdf
Copies of Application Documents
The Application form and the accompanying documents, plans, maps and Environmental Statement (ES) and Non-Technical
Summary (NTS) can be viewed electronically and downloaded free of charge online on the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment
Plant Relocation project page of the Planning Inspectorate’s National Infrastructure Planning website under the documents tab:
https://national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/WW010003/documents
The documents will be available on the Planning Inspectorate’s National Infrastructure Planning website throughout the examination period.
The Application documents can also be found on the Applicant’s website at https://cwwtpr.com.
Further information can be obtained from the Applicant using the following contact details:
• Email: info@cwwtpr.com
• Freepost: CWWTPR
• Telephone: 0808 196 1661