BACKGROUND: Northamptonshire Council (NNC) are considering a planning permission
under reference NN/23/0006/WASFUL for a Proposed Anaerobic Digestion Plant, Associated
Infrastructure, Lagoons and Feedstock Clamps at Rectory Farm, Luddington.
The application to North Northants for the AD plant has not yet been decided and the public
can still comment on it. You can find details of the application on their website:
https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/minerals-and-waste-planning/current-minerals-and-wasteplanning-
applications
The main part of the Anaerobic Digestion (or AD) plant would sit in North Northamptonshire,
and their Council will make the decision on this. However, the gas pipe line and the National
Transmission Service compound needed for the plant would be in Cambridgeshire and so in
March 2024, the County Council granted permission for those minor parts of the development
that would be located in the County – under planning permission reference CCC/23/125/FUL.
CURRENT PLANNING APPLICATION: reference CCC/25/107/FUL
A new planning application has been submitted to the County Council which seeks
permission for a road to serve the AD plant which would link the B660 (Main Street, Great
Gidding) to Hemington Lodge Road.
The proposed road is needed to give better access to the AD plant, it would replace the
existing junction and passing places are also proposed along Hemington Lodge Road. If the
AD plant is approved there will need to be these road improvements. However, if the AD
plant is not approved or not built then the proposed road will not be built.
The County Council understands that an application has also been submitted to
Northamptonshire for a very small part of the road that would sit in their area, that application
is not yet valid and it will not appear on their public access system until it is.
When considering CCC/25/107/FUL, the Council are only able to assess the impact of the
part of the proposed new road that sits within the County and officers cannot consider the AD
plant itself, or the traffic generated by the proposed plant or the traffic routing. Any comments
on these matters should be submitted to North Northamptonshire Council, along with any
other concerns that they may have about the AD plant.
The comments from the County Council’s Highway Development Management team on the
application for the road withing Cambridgeshire are available on our public access system:
https://planning.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/online-applications/
Please direct any queries about the proposed road and highway improvements to
planningdc@cambridgeshire.gov.uk and all other queries to North Northamptonshire Council.
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