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Guide Price£600,000

Commercial Development Land, Longmere Lane, Soham

Land size
1.93 acres

Key Features

  • Excellent development opportunity
  • Located to the northrn outskirts of the town
  • Approximately 1.9 acre site (stms)
  • Offers are invited for the freehold purchase.
  • Existing Commercial use
  • All viewings are by prior appointment only

Description

Soham - Soham is the second largest town in East Cambridgeshire and is located between Ely (6 miles) and Newmarket (7 miles), both of which have a wide range of shopping and leisure facilities. The A142 has good connections with Cambridge via the A14.

Soham has its own range of local shops including the Co-Op & Asda and small eateries, pubs, hairdressers, leisure centre and doctors surgery. The town is a popular place to live for families due to the area’s proximity to Cambridge, Ely and Bury St Edmunds. There are three primary schools feeding into the well regarded Soham Village College. Soham train station which opened at the end of 2021, links to Ely and the mainline to Cambridge and London. London Stansted airport is a 40 minute drive via the A11.

Description - This is an excellent opportunity to acquire a commercial site which is located along a small track on the northern outskirts of this increasingly popular town. The plot measures approximately 1.93 acres (stms) and is almost equally split between a brownfield site (which was used for car bodywork repairs) and an area covered by vegetation . Our enquiries have confirmed that there is power and water to the site and lends itself to a variety of uses.

Location - The site sits approximately 100 yards along Longmere Lane to the northern outskirts of the town. It is easily found by using what3words location: tarnished.artichoke.explains

Registered Title - The title is registered under title CB476409.

Tenure & Possession - The site is for sale freehold, with vacant possession upon completion.

Planning - The site is within the jurisdiction of East Cambridgeshire District Council and all enquiries as to the suitable uses can be directed to their planning department. There are no current planning applications underway.

Method of Sale - The property is for sale by Private Treaty.

Offers - Offers are invited for the freehold purchase of the site. All offers will need to be confirmed in writing to the sellers sole agent and include the following:
1 - Any proposed conditions attached to the offer.
2 - Proof of funding.
3 - Timescales for expected exchange and completion.
4 - Proof of ID.
5 - Details of Solicitors to be instructed on the purchase
6 - Confirmation of 10% deposit paid on exchange of contracts.

Services. - All prospective purchasers are to make their own enquiries as to the location/provision of services. (For information, the seller has informed us that there is water and electricity supplied to the site but this has not been verified.)

Restrictive Covenants, Wayleaves, Easements & Rights of Way - We are not aware of any restrictive covenants associated with the site but the land is to be sold subject to all existing rights of way, public or private, light support, drainage ,water and electricity supplies and allotted rights and obligations, easements, quasi easements and all wayleaves whether referred to or not in the sales particulars. - Purchasers will be deemed to have full knowledge and satisfied themselves as to the provisions of any such matters which may affect the property.

Value Added Tax - Should any sale of the land or any right attached to it become chargeable for VAT, then such tax will be the liability of the purchaser to settle in addition to the purchase price.

Local Authorities - East Cambridgeshire District Council -      Cambridgeshire County Council -

Viewings - Access to the site and viewings are strictly by appointment via Bovingdons Limited. When onsite, we would ask you to be a vigilant as possible for your own personal safety. - Call or

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
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Date Posted
2026-01-29

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 158 Development Land listings in East Anglia (1+ acres).

This Property£310,881 / acre
Development Land Average (1+ acres) £250,695 / acre
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Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Water
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Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
On-Street Parking
Garden
Garden

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • The Shade Primary School762 metresOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    250
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • The Weatheralls Primary School0.8 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    342
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • St Andrew's CofE Primary School1.2 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    461
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Little Thetford CofE Primary School3.5 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    78
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Fordham CofE Primary School3.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    413
    Type
    Voluntary controlled school
    Faith
    Church of England

Secondary

  • Soham Village College1.1 milesOfsted: Outstanding
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,436
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Ely College5.2 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,635
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Witchford Village College5.8 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    804
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Newmarket Academy7.1 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    797
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Vista Academy Littleport8.4 milesOfsted report card · Nov 2025
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    547
    Type
    Academy sponsor led

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

M&S Soham Connect BP, North Field672 metres
Co-op Soham, Soham0.9 miles
Asda Soham Supermarket, Soham0.9 miles

GP surgery

Staploe Medical Centre0.9 miles

Pharmacy

Staploe Pharmacy0.9 miles

Hospital

Princess Of Wales Hospital5.2 miles

Green space

Playing Field96 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Soham0.7 miles

Nearest bus stop

The Birches465 metres

Typical drive times

Soham5 min · 1.2 miles
Newmarket17 min · 9.8 miles
Ely (city)11 min · 5.3 miles
Mildenhall20 min · 11 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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