1,400 homes proposed on farmland east of Godmanchester.

Plaza Land Ltd has asked Huntingdonshire District Council to screen a proposal for up to 1,400 homes on 106 hectares of farmland immediately east of Godmanchester's Roman's Edge and Ash Tree Avenue estates. The scheme, first reported in June 2026, would also bring a new primary school, a local centre and a relief road linking the A1307 and A1198.

What is being proposed.

Planning consultants Carter Jonas, acting for Plaza Land Ltd, have set out an outline bid for a 106-hectare greenfield site between the A1307 and A1198, on the eastern edge of Godmanchester. Up to 1,400 homes are proposed, though the consultants' own design work suggests the final total could land nearer 1,200 once layout and open space are worked through in detail.

Alongside the housing, the scheme includes a new primary school with early years provision, a local centre with scope for shops, community and healthcare uses, and large areas of public open space that could include allotments. A new relief road linking the A1307 and A1198 would form the eastern edge of the built-up area, with land beyond it kept as open space, retained farmland and a solar park.

It is one of two live proposals for new homes in Godmanchester. Separately, Bellway has an outline application for up to 260 homes at Dexter's Farm, south of the town off the A1198, next to its existing Whitehill Gardens estate. The two sites are on opposite sides of Godmanchester and are being handled as distinct applications by the council.

What stage this is at.

This is not yet a formal planning application. In a letter dated 19 May 2026, Carter Jonas asked Huntingdonshire District Council for a screening opinion on whether the scheme needs a full Environmental Impact Assessment. The consultants accept the proposal meets the Schedule 2 threshold for an "urban development project" under the 2017 EIA Regulations, but argue it is unlikely to cause significant environmental effects, pointing to proposed mitigation on ecology, drainage, traffic and recreation.

The council was asked to issue its screening opinion within three weeks of that letter. Once that is settled, Plaza Land is expected to lodge a full outline planning application, after which a more detailed application covering the exact number, type and layout of homes would follow if outline consent is granted. Villager Homes could not confirm from published sources whether the outline application has since been lodged; as of this piece, the scheme remains at the pre-application stage.

Which villages are affected.

Godmanchester is directly affected: the site sits on the town's own boundary and the relief road would change how traffic moves around its eastern edge. Huntingdon and Houghton sit adjacent, sharing the same school catchments and the A1307/A1198 road network the new relief road would tie into. St Ives and the wider Huntingdon-St Ives growth corridor are affected only in the sense that they are already absorbing separate large allocations of their own. The rest of the patch, from the A1 north villages to the far west, is not really affected by this specific proposal.

What to do now.

Nothing changes for Godmanchester buyers or sellers today. This is a screening request, not a planning permission, and even on an optimistic timeline the first completed homes would be years away. What is worth tracking is the cumulative pipeline: Roman's Edge, Dexter's Farm and the Lattenburys allocation on the town's south-eastern edge would together add well over 5,000 homes around Godmanchester over the next decade or more, which has real implications for school places, road capacity and the pace of new-build supply that eventually reaches the market.

If you own in Godmanchester and are weighing whether to sell ahead of that pipeline landing, or you are looking to buy before the area's character shifts further, a proper local valuation is the place to start rather than an online estimate that cannot see what is coming down the road.