Northern Woods, Waterbeach has been approved by committee. The development for Stonebond Properties will begin the first phase of Urban & Civic's 6,500-home Waterbeach Barracks masterplan.

The scheme provides 89 homes through a range of apartments and houses, with landscaped streets and bridleways as well as shared podium gardens.

Cllr Pippa Heylings, chair of South Cambridgeshire District Council's Planning Committee described the scheme as "a high-quality design created by an award-winning architect... We are pleased to have supported these plans which will see the first new homes come forward as part of this carefully-planned new town."