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BBC News
02-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Plans for 90 new homes on farmland near Bluntisham
Farmland on the edge of a village could be turned into a new housing development.A developer has said it hopes to build up to 90 homes on the site off Colne Road to the north of Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire.R2 Developments Limited has submitted an environmental impact assessment screening request to Huntingdonshire District Council, ahead of any potential planning application.A previous outline planning application for 135 homes on the site was submitted in 2017 but later withdrawn in 2019. The site was also put forward to potentially be included in the district council's new local plan as a location for new district council's assessment of the site suggested it could be suitable for up to 86 homes, in order for it to be a "very low density" outline application at this stage means full details of the plans would not be presented until a later date.A more detailed application would then need to be submitted and approved before any homes could be built. This article was written by a trusted journalist and then edited for length and style with the help of AI, before being checked again by a BBC Journalist. It's part of a pilot. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
21-05-2025
- BBC News
Cambridgeshire drug dealer jailed over cocaine stashed in brush
A drug dealer who hid bags of cocaine inside a hairbrush has been jailed for 21 Shiqerukaj, 23, had his Jaguar searched by police after he was spotted parked in Little Downham near found the hairbrush with 26 bags of the drug stuffed inside and £555 in of Needingworth Road, Bluntisham, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine and was sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday. Cambridgeshire Police said concerns had been raised about Shiqerukaj dealing drugs in the area and was arrested in Matthew Wren Close on 27 Con Valentin Radulescu, who investigated the case, said: "Thanks to reports from members of the public and the quick response from our officers, another drug dealer is off the streets of Cambridgeshire."He urged anyone with similar suspicions to report them to the police. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
