A resolution to grant planning permission has paved the way for 6,500 homes to be built at the former Waterbeach army barracks in Cambridgeshire.

Developer Urban & Civic said South Cambridgeshire district council gave the planning nod for the homes and associated jobs, transport, educational, health and community uses.

The firm said formal planning consent for the land, which will remain majority-owned by the Ministry of Defence, was still subject to completing a section 106 agreement, which was “well progressed”.