Question 19. How do you think new developments should support healthy lifestyles?

2.35 The creation of even modest areas of communal space creates an area for social interaction. 2.36 However, the relationship of space to built form is essential if it is to be seen as safe and full use is to be made by the community. The integration of landscaping and utilising the existing vegetation is also key to prevent the creation of overly urbanised developments, hence the provision of multiple landscaping elements in the development proposals.

4.32 New developments should support healthy lifestyles by the Local Plan creating a spatial strategy that can support connected spaces where people do not have to rely on the private car for their daily routine of school, work, shopping and leisure. Enabling active lifestyles and opportunities for social interaction is a priority. 4.33 The Local Plan should provide open space within developments where possible, particularly when they can improve provision for existing communities. 4.34 A further measure to ensure new developments should support healthy lifestyles is for them to consider the needs of all age ranges and abilities in the detailed design of open spaces and public realm.

2.40 Responses to previous question have established how the development will support healthy lifestyles. The development will provide whole life housing provision from homes for first time buyers through to the later living provision allowing it to meet a wide range of intergenerational housing needs. 2.41 By providing the residential dwellings and the later living with open green space and pedestrian connections to the various facilities within Comberton, this will allow for people to walk more and socialise outside thus leading to a healthier lifestyle as there will be opportunities for residents to walk, cycle and generally exercise on a daily basis. 2.42 The development will be within close proximity to the proposed Greenway into Cambridge, providing a safe cycling environment not only for commuting into Cambridge but for recreational cycling tying into the wider greenway links. The location of the site more generally allows for easy access to the countryside and wider public footpath network. 2.43 It is also considered that with regards to the retirement village, by providing specialised facilities for the elderly, this will encourage the residents to socialise reducing loneliness and other mental issues caused through isolation. This will be further enhanced by the ability for existing Comberton residents to access the facilities ensuring a high level of integration. 2.44 Finally, the site offers the potential for facilities such as an extension to the existing allotments to the immediately east of the site.

Paragraph 91 of the NPPF seeks to deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places, and identifies a number of approaches to support healthy lifestyles. It promotes social interaction through mixed-use developments, strong neighbourhood centres, street layouts that include pedestrian and cycle connections, and active street frontages for example. It enables and supports healthy lifestyles, by providing green infrastructure, sports facilities, local shops, access to healthier food, allotments, and layouts that encourage walking and cycling for example. NHS England Healthy Towns Initiatives identified ten principles to deliver healthy places, which relate to the provision of health services, meeting local and community health needs, and development design matters. In terms of design matters it is suggested that compact neighbourhoods, active travel, healthy eating opportunities, play and leisure facilities would contribute towards the delivery of healthy places. The promoted development at Land South of Milton Road, Impington would make a significant positive contribution to support healthy lifestyles. The proposals include for a significant area (4.8ha) to be brought forward as a Community Park. This would provide much needed additional open space for leisure and recreation within the villages, where there is a deficit of 10.75ha of open space against South Cambridgeshire District Council’s policy requirements. This would clearly bring significant benefits for promoting healthy lifestyles within the community as residents would have the space they required for to pursue sports and recreational activities. In addition to this significant area of open space, the previous application for the proposed development of the site included significant improvements to pedestrian and cycle connectivity to the site. These would encourage active modes of travel both for user of the Community Park and future residents of the proposed residential development, also contributing to promoting healthy lifestyles. Histon and Impington also have good existing cycle links into Cambridge with a journey time form Impington to Central Cambridge of approximately 20 minutes. This makes cycling for the purpose of commuting to work a real possibility and can also encourage healthy lifestyle choices.31. How should the Local Plan help to meet our needs for the amount and types of new homes? The emerging GCLP will need to be consistent with national guidance on meeting housing needs. Paragraph 59 of the NPPF confirms the Government’s objective to significantly boost the supply of housing, and to achieve this by ensuring that a sufficient amount and variety of land for housing is identified. Paragraph 60 expects the standard method to be used to determine the minimum number of houses needed. Paragraph 61 expects the size, type and tenure of housing needs of the community to be assessed and reflected in planning policies, including for example those with an affordable housing need, students, renters and self-builders. Section Id.2a of the Planning Practice Guidance explains how housing and economic needs assessments should be undertaken, including how to calculate local housing needs using the standard method. Paragraph 010 of Id.2a makes it clear that the standard method is the minimum starting point for determining local housing needs, and acknowledges that there may be circumstances where actual housing need is higher than the standard method indicates. As set out in Paragraph 010 the circumstances where increases to housing need that exceed past trends are as follows: there is a growth strategy in place to promote and facilitate additional growth; strategic infrastructure improvements are likely to lead to an increase in the number of homes needed locally; and, an authority has agreed to accommodate unmet housing needs from a neighbouring area. The first two circumstances are relevant to Greater Cambridge. Paragraph 024 of Id.2a explains how the need for affordable housing is calculated, and it is suggested that the overall housing target should be increased where it could help deliver the required number of affordable homes. There is an urgent need to improve the affordability of housing and to boost affordable housing delivery in Greater Cambridge. Therefore, the emerging GCLP should use the standard method to calculate the minimum local housing need, and then make appropriate adjustments taking into account the growth strategies and strategic infrastructure improvements identified for Greater Cambridge, and a further adjustment to ensure affordable housing needs are met.

Paragraph 91 of the NPPF seeks to deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places, and identifies a number of approaches to support healthy lifestyles. It promotes social interaction through mixed-use developments, strong neighbourhood centres, street layouts that include pedestrian and cycle connections, and active street frontages for example. It enables and supports healthy lifestyles, by providing green infrastructure, sports facilities, local shops, access to healthier food, allotments, and layouts that encourage walking and cycling for example. NHS England Healthy Towns Initiatives identified ten principles to deliver healthy places, which relate to the provision of health services, meeting local and community health needs, and development design matters. In terms of design matters it is suggested that compact neighbourhoods, active travel, healthy eating opportunities, play and leisure facilities would contribute towards the delivery of healthy places. It is considered that the promoted development at land off Shepreth Road in Foxton would be consistent with guidance and initiatives to support healthy lifestyles. The promoted development would include open space and a play area. It is accessible to the services and facilities within Foxton by walking and cycling, including Foxton Station. It is noted that the Greater Cambridge Partnership has proposed two transport improvement projects in Foxton to encourage active and sustainable travel: a Foxton Rural Travel Hub which includes additional cycle parking at the railway station; and, the Melbourn Greenway which includes a new shared use path for walking and cycling on the A10 through Foxton, improvements to junction arrangements, and speed reduction measures in Foxton.

5.24 Paragraph 91 of the NPPF seeks to deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places, and identifies a number of approaches to support healthy lifestyles. It promotes social interaction through mixed use developments, strong neighbourhood centres, street layouts that include pedestrian and cycle connections, and active street frontages for example. It enables and supports healthy lifestyles, by providing green infrastructure, sports facilities, local shops, access to healthier food, allotments, and layouts that encourage walking and cycling for example 5.25 NHS England Healthy Towns Initiatives identified ten principles to deliver healthy places, which relate to the provision of health services, meeting local and community health needs, and development design matters. In terms of design matters it is suggested that compact neighbourhoods, active travel, healthy eating opportunities, play and leisure facilities would contribute towards the delivery of healthy places.

A prime driver of people’s health is access to employment and good quality housing. Providing for employment and housing needs is therefore critical. A spatial strategy that can support connected spaces where people do not have to rely on the private car for their daily routine of school, work, shopping and leisure. Enabling active lifestyles and opportunities for social interaction is a priority. The proposed new community at the Six Mile Bottom Estate can provide homes, jobs, together with essential central services such as secondary and primary schools, community hubs and medical facilities as well as local retail space will provide the important elements to allow a new community to thrive. The internalisation of these elements will reduce the need for car travel and promote sustainable travel options with significant health and wellbeing benefits. The proposal for a new community at the Six Mile Bottom Estate can be delivered in line with the NHS Health Town Programme underpinned by the principles of creating healthier and connected communities with integrated and high-quality services.

Paragraph 91 of the NPPF seeks to deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places, and identifies a number of approaches to support healthy lifestyles. It promotes social interaction through mixed-use developments, strong neighbourhood centres, street layouts that include pedestrian and cycle connections, and active street frontages for example. It enables and supports healthy lifestyles, by providing green infrastructure, sports facilities, local shops, access to healthier food, allotments, and layouts that encourage walking and cycling for example. NHS England Healthy Towns Initiatives identified ten principles to deliver healthy places, which relate to the provision of health services, meeting local and community health needs, and development design matters. In terms of design matters it is suggested that compact neighbourhoods, active travel, healthy eating opportunities, play and leisure facilities would contribute towards the delivery of healthy places. It is considered that the promoted development at land off Station Road in Willingham would be consistent with guidance and initiatives to support healthy lifestyles. The promoted development would include open space. It is accessible to the services and facilities within Willingham by walking and cycling, including to the Cambridge Guided Busway stop. It is noted that the Greater Cambridge Partnership has identified a potential greenway rural travel hub to deliver improvements to the cycle route between Willingham and the Cambridge Guided Busway stop. There is a good range of services and facilities provided in Willingham including a variety of convenience stores, doctor’s surgery and pharmacy, which are all related to supporting healthy lifestyles.

This can be achieved by creating a well-designed network of green open space provision, both through a development and connecting to green spaces or countryside outside it. Depending on the scale of the development this ought to include a variety of types of open space to cater for different healthy lifestyle needs: play areas, sports areas, hang-about areas, cycle paths, footpaths, natural greenspace for quiet contemplation (de-stressing), allotments and public realm that encourages social interaction (seating, picnic tables, BBQ areas). Spaces should be well designed in order to ensure that they feel secure and discourage anti-social behaviour. • A growing population will put further pressure on limited existing green spaces (see our response to question 13). All developments, especially those for housing, should therefore set out how they will contribute to increasing the quantity and quality of green infrastructure in our area. This must include strategic green infrastructure beyond the development site because Cambridgeshire has a defecit of such space. New green infrastructure provision should be based on green infrastructure priorities, such as the Nature Recovery Network which we have suggested in our answer to question 12. This emphasises the need to create a joined-up network of green infrastructure, in particular expanding and linking existing green spaces. • We would like to see large new developments laid-out in ways which prioritise cycling, walking and public transport rather than private vehicles. There are examples from the Netherlands of housing estates laid out in this way, such as Houten (https://itdpdotorg.wpengine.com/wpcontent/uploads/2014/07/22.-092211_ITDP_NED_Desktop_Houten.pdf). Such developments are also usually much more community-oriented. Most developers do not want to include measures to reduce car use as they see easy car access as a selling-point for their properties, so how can the Local Plan bring about change in this regard? • To facilitate greater cycling, we would like the Local Plan to support the provision of appropriate cycle storage. A family of four could well need four cycles, including a cargo bike. It is therefore important that new developments are designed so that a large number of cycles, or large cycles can be stored securely. This might mean that there is sufficient space to install a shed in a garden and that it is easy to get to it (eg without having to take the cycle through the property). Ideally, we would like to see the secure storage provided by the developer to encourage cycle take-up (rather than the property owner being required to install their own). • We should be aiming for cleaner, greener, and safer communities where children can play in the street without fear of traffic or corrosion of their lungs. Car access in the immediate vicinity of sensitive areas like schools and play areas should be restricted. • Community facilities should include opportunities for indoor sports (this can be informally, for example badminton or basketball in a community centre). • Large developments should include buildings which are designed to accommodate gyms or exercise classes and developers should be encouraged to attract these uses. As part of their sales package perhaps a developer could include one-year membership of a local gym as part of the welcome pack to owners of new houses or business premises? Could the Local Plan support such initiatives? The issues of mental wellbeing, social isolation, and loneliness can all be tackled by designing new communities so as to encourage greater social interaction and mobility. A local church, community centre, café, pub, etc are all important facilities that promote community integration and should be operational when residents move in. • Gardening is a valuable means of improving personal fitness and wellbeing. For people living in apartments that have no gardens, space should be set aside in the development so residents can engage in communal gardening. New allotments should be provided in areas where there is a high proportion of apartments. • Ensuring that all new houses can be easily adapted for whole-life use can ensure that infirm or vulnerable people can live in their homes for longer. • Larger developments need to include houses designed for all demographics, so that people have the option to move locally and remain in their neighbourhood as they age and their needs change. In other words, more housing for older people.

Well-designed development can integrate green infrastructure, prioritising public transport methods (buses, walking, cycling), into a scheme. This offers an alternative to car use and encourages activity, which in turn improves the health of site occupants.

• New developments must have a safe, convenient and high-quality cycling network that connects every home, business and public transport stop. • Every child should be able to easily access their schools, local parks, and friends’ homes by foot or bike. Parents should feel safe and confident that, once their children reach a suitable age, they can allow them to walk or cycle on their own in the community. • Cycling should always be the quickest and most convenient transport option for local journeys within new developments, • It must be less convenient to drive through the new development for short journeys than to cycle. Driving routes on new sites should be circuitous and directed towards the exterior of the site away from where people live and gather. • Within the site, extensive deployment of filtered permeability gives freedom to people walking or cycling to take direct routes, while preventing drivers from rat-running and endangering the public. Public transport can also benefit from filtered permeability, using bus gates or dedicated rights-of-way. • Making walking and cycling accessible for people with mobility issues will enable many more people to improve their physical health through active travel and improve their mental health and wellbeing by reducing isolation. • New developments must be designed to prevent parking on pavements • High-quality cycle parking must be provided with all buildings. • Better rubbish management should ensure bins don’t litter the landscape and block paths. • Priority over side roads must be given to people walking and cycling. • Junctions must be designed to enable people of all abilities to cycle safely through them. • The Local Plan must acknowledge that cycles are also mobility aids for many people. There should never be any situation where ‘cyclist dismount’ signs are installed. • The NHS recommends 150 minutes of cardiovascular exercise per week for adults to maintain health into old age. New developments which are planned with cycling as a priority will make this easy for people to achieve by being able to cycle as a means of transport. “Street layout and design strongly influences how people make their daily journeys. Travel by noncar modes is highest in pleasant ‘liveable’ streets with low levels of traffic, trees, interesting features, attractive shop-fronts and convenient direct lines of access to facilities like public transport.” (Taylor, 2011) “In cities such as Freiburg, Groningen and Zwolle the principle of filtered permeability is acknowledged as a key element in their success in restraining car use and promoting alternatives. Through traffic is channelled onto a limited network of main roads. Suburban developments are often designed as giant culs de sac for cars, while short cuts provide a far more permeable network for the sustainable modes. People use these modes — particularly cycling — because of the time and convenience advantage compared to travelling by car.” (Melia, 2008) “Cycling to work is linked to a substantial decrease in the risk of developing and dying from cancer or heart disease.” (Torjesen, 2017) “While the UK is spending more on the National Health Service, it should also aim to reduce illness through investing in healthy environments. In many towns and cities in Western Europe, priority has been given to the quality of the environment and to inclusive accessibility, and the culture allows children to play in and roam their public realm. [...] The comparative study of child health and well-being in OECD countries puts British children as amongst the least healthy and least happy. Spatial planning in its broad sense, and the character of settlements, are part of the UK problem, and need to become part of the solution.” (Barton, 2009) “[There] are immense quality-of-life improvements that come with prioritizing the bicycle as a mobility device, especially among the young and elderly. A 2013 study conducted by UNICEF found that Dutch kids topped the list for overall well-being when compared to children in the world’s 29 wealthiest countries, in part because of their ability to roam freely without parent supervision.” (Bruntlett, 2018) “The basic layout of [Houten] consists of two train stations, each surrounded by a ring road with a radius of approximately one kilometer. The rest of the city is covered by an extensive, 129 kilometer network of bicycle paths. There are 31 residential districts, each of which is only accessible to cars via the peripheral ring roads encircling the town. However, the network of paths for cyclists and pedestrians includes a thoroughfare that passes directly through the town center, providing fltered permeability for cyclists and pedestrians. The majority of schools and important buildings are located along this thoroughfare. Due to this design, cycling is the most direct mode of transportation and is often even faster than travel by car. Houten’s innovative design features along with the city’s persistent policies to favor cyclists and pedestrians have resulted in numerous measured benefts, including improved cyclist and pedestrian safety, increased activity levels of residents, and reduced use of motorized vehicles. Furthermore, this case study demonstrates that innovative design features are not limited to new districts within a city, but can be applied to new cities as a whole.” (Foletta, 2014) Evidence for our response to Question 19. • Taylor, Ian and Sloman, Lynn (2011). Thriving cities: integrated land use and transport planning. • Melia, S (2008). Neighbourhoods should be made permeable for walking and cycling — but not for cars. Local Transport Today, Jan 23 2008. • Torjesen, Ingrid(2017). Cycling to work has substantial health benefits, study finds. BMJ2017;357:j1944. • Barton, Hugh (2009). Land use planning and health and well-being. Land Use Policy. • Bruntlett, Melissa and Bruntlett, Chris (2018). Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality. Island Press. • Foletta, Nicole (2014). Case Study: Houten. ITDP Europe.

Development proposals must include how they increase the social capital over a certain number of houses. Inclusion of green space, walking and cycling focussed, streets that children can play in - car free streets - outstanding public transport. This approach will encourage social inclusion, are easy to get to by public transport and have taken net carbon zero into account.

1.13 Our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are compounded by the fact that many people spend large parts of their day travelling to work, principally in private motor vehicles, due to the fact that they cannot afford to live near their places of work. This daily commute can have long term physical and mental health issues especially when travel patterns get interrupted by infrastructure works such those seen recently with the A14 upgrade. With further infrastructure planned for the Greater Cambridge area there is an urgent requirement for the new homes to meet the immediate needs of the area to be built in locations where sustainable modes of travel can easily be used to access the places of employment in and around the city. 1.14 The Greater Cambridge area’s present overreliance on new settlements and urban extensions means that new homes take longer to come forward and sustainable travel options are not always in place when new residents move in. Our clients’ site has no major constraints to its deliver and can be delivered quickly, either as a standalone development or as an early phase of a larger extension of the village. The development of this site, with the enhancements to walking and cycling accessibility that it will bring, will allow new residents the opportunity to access local services and facilities by foot or cycle rather than having to rely on the private car. The proximity of the site to the sporting and leisure facilities within the centre of the village and at Comberton Village College also means that residents will have these facilities within easy walking and cycling distances of their homes to enable them to adopt healthy lifestyles. 1.15 The Greater Cambridge Partnership’s planned enhancements to the cycle route between Comberton and Cambridge as part of their greenways project will further encourage new and existing residents to cycle in order to access the services, facilities and employment opportunities of Cambridge and beyond. This route will potentially run to the east of the site along Long Road and will further enhance the cycle and pedestrian connectivity of the site.

1.13 Our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are compounded by the fact that many people spend large parts of their day travelling to work, principally in private motor vehicles, due to the fact that they cannot afford to live near their places of work. This daily commute can have long term physical and mental health issues especially when travel patterns get interrupted by infrastructure works such those seen recently with the A14 upgrade. With further infrastructure planned for the Greater Cambridge area there is an urgent requirement for the new homes to meet the immediate needs of the area to be built in locations where sustainable modes of travel can easily be used to access the places of employment in and around the city. 1.14 The Greater Cambridge area’s present overreliance on new settlements and urban extensions means that new homes take longer to come forward and sustainable travel options are not always in place when new residents move in. Our client’s sites at Bennell Farm can be delivered quickly and will allow new residents the opportunity to access local services and facilities by foot or cycle rather than having to rely on the private car. The proximity of the site to the sporting and leisure facilities at Comberton Village College also means that residents will have these facilities on their doorsteps to enable them to adopt healthy lifestyles. 1.15 The Greater Cambridge Partnership’s planned enhancements to the cycle route between Comberton and Cambridge as part of their greenways project will further encourage new and existing residents to cycle in order to access the services, facilities and employment opportunities of Cambridge and beyond.

• New developments must have a safe, convenient and high-quality cycling network that connects every home, business and public transport stop. • Every child should be able to easily access their schools, local parks, and friends' homes by foot or bike. Parents should feel safe and confident that, once their children reach a suitable age, they can allow them to walk or cycle on their own in the community. • Cycling should always be the quickest and most convenient transport option for local journeys within new developments, • It must not be more convenient to drive through the new development for short journeys than cycle. Driving routes on new sites should be less convenient, circuitous and directed towards the exterior of the site away from where people live and gather. • Making walking and cycling accessible for people with mobility issues will enable many more people to improve their physical health through active travel and improve their mental health and wellbeing by reducing isolation. • New developments must be designed to prevent parking on pavements • High-quality cycle parking must be provided with all buildings. • Better rubbish management should ensure bins don't litter the landscape and block paths. • Priority over side roads must be given to people walking and cycling. • Junctions must be designed to enable people of all abilities to cycle safely through them. • The Local Plan must acknowledge that cycles are also mobility aids for many people. There should never be any situation where 'cyclist dismount' signs are installed. • The NHS recommends 150 minutes of cardiovascular exercise per week for adults to maintain health into old age. New developments which are planned with cycling as a priority will make this easy for people to achieve by being able to cycle as a means of transport.

There is a significant body of evidence emerging* that shows healthy lifestyles are best supported by developments that are able to provide: - - ‘gentle density’ that is only achievable in more urban areas; - where public transport is available; - mixed use development, supported by larger local populations; - walkable neighbourhoods; - shops, services and places to meet; and are - leafy with regular green spaces. The best way of achieving these aims is in the allocation of larger sites that are capable of accommodating a mix of uses. *Spatial Planning for Health – an evidence resource for planning and designing healthier places, Public Health England, 2017

In accordance with Paragraph 8 of the NPPF, it is important that the Plan delivers a sufficient number and range of homes to meet the needs of present and future generations, with accessible services and open spaces that reflect current and future needs, and support communities’ health, social and cultural wellbeing. Thakeham is of the view that new developments should comprise a mix of uses, that bring forward new facilities to the benefit of the wider community. The delivery of a larger volume of homes facilitates the delivery of new physical, social and green infrastructure. Thakeham is one of only 12 organisations that are members of the NHS Healthy New Towns Network, which is a collaboration between NHS England, Public Health England, Housing Developers and Housing Associations. The aim of this network is to build on the work of the Healthy New Towns Programme to share learning and best practise in healthy placemaking, with a shared vision for creating healthy neighbourhoods of the future. As a member, Thakeham has committed to incorporating the Healthy New Towns principles design principles throughout our schemes and prioritising health and wellbeing within all of our developments, creating the healthy neighbourhoods, towns and cities of the future. The principles that lie at the heart of creating healthy new places and showcasing the learning and innovation from the Healthy New Towns Programme are as follows: • Plan ahead collectively • Plan integrated health services that meet local needs • Connect, involve and empower people and communities • Create compact neighbourhoods • Maximise active travel • Inspire and enable healthy eating • Foster health in homes and buildings • Enable healthy play and leisure • Develop health services that help people stay well • Create integrated health and wellbeing centres These principles complement Thakeham’s vision for all new developments and implement the above principles where appropriate.

Build ‘Lifetime Homes’. Have informal, casual social interaction places, i.e. town squares, seating areas, external performance/exercise spaces. markets, etc. Variety of green spaces, play and leisure areas and ‘blue collar’ employment opportunities. Community Development Officers to organise initial community activities and events. Ensure the built and landscaped environment is accessible to all. Promote and incentivise healthy lifestyles.

Paragraph 91 of the NPPF seeks to deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places, and identifies a number of approaches to support healthy lifestyles. It promotes social interaction through mixed-use developments, strong neighbourhood centres, street layouts that include pedestrian and cycle connections, and active street frontages for example. It enables and supports healthy lifestyles, by providing green infrastructure, sports facilities, local shops, access to healthier food, allotments, and layouts that encourage walking and cycling for example. NHS England Healthy Towns Initiatives identified ten principles to deliver healthy places, which relate to the provision of health services, meeting local and community health needs, and development design matters. In terms of design matters it is suggested that compact neighbourhoods, active travel, healthy eating opportunities, play and leisure facilities would contribute towards the delivery of healthy places. It is considered that the promoted development at land at Beach Road in Cottenham would be consistent with guidance and initiatives to support healthy lifestyles. The promoted development would include open space, and would be accessible to the existing sport and recreation areas in Cottenham. They are accessible to the services and facilities within Cottenham by walking and cycling. There is a good range of services and facilities provided in Cottenham including a variety of convenience stores, doctor’s surgery and dentist, which are all related to supporting healthy lifestyles.

4.57 Employment development is able to support healthy lifestyles by ensuring the design of buildings and landscaping meets the needs of employees and provides opportunities for active movement. Additionally, providing employment in itself reduces poverty and health issues caused by this and so encouraging high quality employment within an accessible location should be a priority of the Local Plan. 4.58 The Local Plan should encourage development to provide opportunities for employees to be active during breaks and travel to work. This should be flexible, but could include provision of changing rooms and showers to encourage cyclists and/or, provision of green spaces with a designated walking or jogging route.

New developments must be designed to be carbon-neutral, and car-free wherever possible. The City Council had the opportunity to set a good example on the Mill Road Depot site. An opportunity lost for Cambridge to have a development as good as, or even better than Goldsmith Street, Norwich?

Please refer to the Sustainability Vision Statement which seeks out opportunities to bring the big themes to life in every aspect of the project.

European Property Ventures (Cambridgeshire) agree that the Local Plan should seek to deliver 'good growth' that achieve safe and inclusive communities across the whole plan area. As such, the social and housing need of smaller communities such as at Group Villages and Rural Centres should not be ignored. The Plan must positively address the needs of all its communities to be able to provide for 'good growth'. As part of this objective development should be planned so that it is able to support healthy lifestyles, reinforcing local linkages and making use of facilities whilst supporting investment in delivering tangible benefits. To achieve the 'good growth' benefits the Councils are seeking, the Plan must deliver development that also recognises the needs of existing comminities, including the needs of the settlements within the rural areas. This is especially relevant to the provision of affordable housing and homes that address specific needs such as small families, down-sizing households and the needs of larger families. The housing stock within villages has not benefited by the delivery of such accommodation, with development relying upon small infill development that is not of a scale that can contribute to these requirements. Similarly, the existing facilities within villages have not been able to be supported by required growth levels, with schools relying upon larger and larger catchments, whilst shops and pubs have not has sufficient customer base to sustain their business. To address the wellbing of existing communities and contribute to their social inclusion, the Plan must consider the positve distribution of a suitbable level of development. European Property Ventures (Cambridgeshire) believe that the expansion of settlements such as Oakington, with good facilities and access to wider facilities at nearby strategic allocations through public transport and sustainable modes of transport such as cycling; would be an effective way to provide good growth that address this objective. Pursance of this strategy would mean including suitable sites such as the site south of Dry Drayton Road at Oakridge within the Development Framework and capable of delivery. The revision of Development Frameworks and village extents can be best achieved through the requirement of local communities to accommodate minimum levels of development, so that windfall development or positive allocations through the neighbourhood plan process can be identified. Claremont Planning are instructed on behalf of European Property Ventures(Cambridgeshire) to promote the site south of Dry Drayton Road, Oakington for residential development to achieve the 'good growth' and its consideration within the emerging spatial strategy for allocation. The site is available, suitable and viable for residential development, representing a location to acheieve moderate growth of the village that will be able to contribute towards the housing supply of the Plan area within a location that has previously been identified for strategic levels of expansion nearby through the Nothstowe new settlemen at Longstanton. As such, Oakington should be reconsidered as a settlement that could accommodate development to deliver the over the extended plan period given that it has easily accessible linkages to wider strategic development and associated facilities. Encouraging linkages from Oakington to Northstowe will in turn make use of established public trasnport routes and cycle routes. The Plan should require a review of development frameworks at settlements with wider linkages and facilities as a direct result of the new Plan's adoption. Summary of Comments: The Plan should require a review of development frameworks at settlements with wider linkages and facilities, such as Oakington.

Q16 – Q19 Wellbeing and social inclusion We agree that addressing requirements for climate change and green spaces, in addition to other national planning policy requirements will help to promote wellbeing and social inclusion. This should be a key consideration in the preparation of the Local Plan biodiversity and green infrastructure evidence base. Access to sustainable transport and access to nature, close to people’s homes, can have a significant influence on mental and physical wellbeing. As indicated above there is an accessible natural greenspace deficit across Greater Cambridge, and particularly South Cambridgeshire. This needs to be addressed through the new Local Plan to improve opportunities for people, to improve health and wellbeing, in addition to delivering wider environmental benefits including air quality and climate change. Creation of an enhanced and extended ecological network brimming with high quality open space, biodiversity rich habitat, community orchards, allotments etc. will make a significant contribution towards enhanced wellbeing.

4.29 New developments should support healthy lifestyles by creating a spatial strategy that can support connected spaces where people do not have to rely on the private car for their daily routine of school, work, shopping and leisure. Enabling active lifestyles and opportunities for social interaction is a priority. 4.30 The Local Plan should provide open space within developments where possible, alongside a policy framework to allow for off-site enhancements where appropriate, particularly when they can improve provision for existing communities. Standards within policies that determine the quantity and quality of provision should reflect an evidence-based assessment of need and benefits delivered. 4.31 A further measure to ensure new developments should support healthy lifestyles is for them to consider the needs of all age ranges and abilities in the detailed design of open spaces and public realm. New developments should also encourage healthy eating choices through the provision of healthy options and minimising/preventing fast food outlets.

4.22 New developments such as the proposed high density mixed use redevelopment of the Travis Perkins site should support healthy lifestyles by creating a spatial strategy that can support connected spaces where people do not have to rely on the private car for their daily routine of school, work, shopping and leisure. Enabling active lifestyles and opportunities for social interaction is a priority. 4.23 The Local Plan should provide open space within developments where possible, alongside a policy framework to allow for off-site enhancements where appropriate, particularly when they can improve provision for existing communities. Standards within policies that determine the quantity and quality of provision should reflect an evidence-based assessment of need and benefits delivered. 4.24 A further measure to ensure new developments should support healthy lifestyles is for them to consider the needs of all age ranges and abilities in the detailed design of open spaces and public realm. New developments should also encourage healthy eating choices through the provision of healthy options and minimising/preventing fast food outlets.

4.28 New developments should support healthy lifestyles by creating a spatial strategy that can support connected spaces where people do not have to rely on the private car for their daily routine of school, work, shopping and leisure. Enabling active lifestyles and opportunities for social interaction is a priority. 4.29 The Local Plan should provide open space within developments where possible, alongside a policy framework to allow for off-site enhancements where appropriate, particularly when they can improve provision for existing communities. Standards within policies that determine the quantity and quality of provision should reflect an evidence-based assessment of need and benefits delivered. 4.30 A further measure to ensure new developments should support healthy lifestyles is for them to consider the needs of all age ranges and abilities in the detailed design of open spaces and public realm. New developments should also encourage healthy eating choices through the provision of healthy options and minimising/preventing fast food outlets. 4.31 Open space would be provided as part of the proposed development on Land at Capital Park which would be accessible to residents or employees. Access to open space on site provides opportunities for exercise and recreation to help promote healthy lifestyles. Not only are there physical benefits to having a large proportion of open space within close proximity of homes, there are also benefits in terms of mental wellbeing by providing areas for residents to relax and enjoy outdoor activities.

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Paragraph 91 of the NPPF seeks to deliver healthy, inclusive and safe places, and identifies a number of approaches to support healthy lifestyles. It promotes social interaction through mixed-use developments, strong neighbourhood centres, street layouts that include pedestrian and cycle connections, and active street frontages for example. It enables and supports healthy lifestyles, by providing green infrastructure, sports facilities, local shops, access to healthier food, allotments, and layouts that encourage walking and cycling for example. NHS England Healthy Towns Initiatives identified ten principles to deliver healthy places, which relate to the provision of health services, meeting local and community health needs, and development design matters. In terms of design matters it is suggested that compact neighbourhoods, active travel, healthy eating opportunities, play and leisure facilities would contribute towards the delivery of healthy places. The promoted development at the Mill Lane Site in Sawston would be consistent with guidance and initiatives to support healthy lifestyles as it would it include open space, recreation areas and walking routes. It is also located just a 10 or 15 minute walk or short cycle ride into Sawston for shopping, entertainment and other activities, a 5 or 10 minute walk or short cycle ride to the large business and research campus under development on the former Spicers site, and a modest cycle ride into Cambridge itself.

4.13.1 A spatial strategy that can support connected spaces where people do not have to rely on the private car for their daily routine of school, work, shopping and leisure. Enabling active lifestyles and opportunities for social interaction is a priority. 4.13.2 Providing open space within developments where possible, alongside a policy framework to allow for off-site enhancements where appropriate, particularly when they can improve provision for existing communities. Standards within policies that determine the quantity and quality of provision should reflect an evidence based assessment of need and benefits delivered. 4.13.3 Consider the needs of all age ranges and abilities in the detailed design of open spaces and public realm. The landowner would like to explore the opportunity of land for this purpose under his control. 4.13.4 Ensure that new developments encourage healthy eating choices through the provision of healthy options (including supermarkets).