Question 22. How do you think we should protect, enhance and adapt our historic buildings and landscapes?

Improve Access to them Adapt them to meet modern needs Not be scared to adapt them

By providing viable uses for historic buildings. Historic landscapes will change through natural change over time and need to be reviewed regularly to ensure the protection they enjoy is still fit for purpose.

As Q.21, seek and respect the views of local communities when assessing development proposals. Historic buildings must be allowed adapt to changing use and to tackle climate change.

Get rid of private vehicles within the city of Cambridge to the greatest extent possible. Ban private vehicles and most taxis, except for picking up and dropping off disabled passengers, from the core historic district.

No specific comments. Existing arrangements appear to work satisfactorily.

See response to Q21

Historic buildings, conservation areas and the character and size of existing communities should not be overwhelmed by new developments. Greater priority should be given to preserving them. Not all growth can go ahead without detriment to the historic environment.

Look after them.

• We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. • Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

As with Q.21, historic buildings and landscapes should be protected by ensuring where possible that new development proposals are located elsewhere. Exceptions would be where there is an identified need for enhancement and this requires introduction of new uses or investment to maintain or improve the fabric or appearance and longevity of the asset. Pigeon’s proposal for the site at St Neots Road, Hardwick avoids any such issues.

• We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. • Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

Cars should be excluded from our historic landscapes so that the areas are pleasant to enjoy and do not suffer road-wear and pollution damage that they cause. Parked cars are an eyesore.

• We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. • Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

The impact on heritage assets is one of a range of matters that will inform decisions about which sites to allocate in emerging GCLP, and it is considered that good design can be used to protect heritage assets from harmful impacts; the promoted development at South West Cambridge is an example where heritage and landscape assets have been assessed and where they are not considered to be a meaningful barrier to new development, adopting sensitive layouts and designs. An Initial Heritage Impact Assessment (prepared by Bidwells) and Landscape and Visual Appraisal and Green Belt Review (prepared by The Landscape Partnership) has been undertaken for the promoted development at the South West Cambridge site. The Masterplan for the promoted site has taken into account the significance and setting of the identified heritage assets and landscape character, in order to ensure that any impacts are mitigated wherever possible. In summary, the promoted development includes a substantial central east-west open corridor through the site which takes into account some of the primary viewpoints towards the City from the west, retains existing landscape features, and locates development to avoid potential adverse effects on the setting of landmark/taller heritage assets in the City. This approach of detailed heritage and landscape assessments followed by careful and sensitive design demonstrates that heritage and landscape assets within and on the edge of Cambridge can be protected in conjunction with a strategic site allocation at South West Cambridge.

• We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. • Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

• Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

There should be clear commitment to maintaining open landscapes, as large-scale developments simply destroy them. There should also be some mechanism for preventing cumulative erosion of a locality through successive proposals coming forward, instead of each one being considered on a piecemeal basis.

Quality of life is Cambridges secret. The city's historic open spaces and its river engender a feeling of shared enjoyment and ownership. This vibe is reflected in town and gown life. • We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. • Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. You can park from 10 - 30 bicycles in the space for one parked car and its approach spaces. Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. • Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region.

Reduce parking for cars and car transport around the historic buildings. The impact of air pollution on the building structures can be easily seen with the darkening of stonework and is expensive to renovate

Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see and also do when they come and visit our city and region. We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

• We should reduce car parking and car traffic in our historic spaces and provide more room for people walking and cycling. • Fewer cars and more walking and cycling will result in less air pollution, noise, road danger and erosion and damage to our historic buildings and areas. • Cycling is part of Cambridge culture and is what people expect to see when they come and visit our city and region. • Reallocating space from roads and cars to walking and cycling will make our cities and villages more accessible and pleasant places to spend time.

This is no time for being delicate and overly reverential. We need to do what is scientifically necessary. Plant trees and wildflowers on those college lawns! Fit functional triple glazing into those historic buildings! Grow creepers up the walls! Fit bird boxes under the rafters! Do all this and we may survive. Alternatively be precious over history and tradition and die.

Limit growth now. Limit cars in the City Centre. Pedestrianise the City Centre Core, which includes no cycling here. Limit building heights.

The Trumpington Residents’ Association encourages the Councils to give continued support to local Conservation Areas.

Savills (UK) Ltd are instructed by St John’s College, Cambridge to make the necessary submissions to the Council’s consultation “The First Conversation” as part of the Issues and Options consultation process for a new Greater Cambridge Local Plan. The College is a significant landowner in and around Cambridge and accordingly needs to make the necessary representations to the Councils in respect of its assets and on other relevant planning policy issues that will arise in the context of any new development plan for the two administrative areas of South Cambridgeshire and Cambridge City. The Local Plan must enable historic buildings to adapt to meet the requirements of a net zero carbon future and the realities of climate change whilst retaining their heritage value. This can be achieved through alignment of sustainability and conservation policy statements, as set out in Question 9 above. Ensuring historic buildings can be sympathetically adapted and evolve to meet the needs of the modern, technology-enabled and inclusive student experience will be essential to the University retaining its reputation for excellence. The Local Plan policies could also encourage the development of interlinked landscape management strategies such as the Colleges’ Backs Strategy. In this way, it is possible both to honour and retain the historic legacy and maintain and develop the landscape and ecological footprint in a sustainable manner for the enjoyment of future generations.

There should be clear commitment to maintaining open landscapes, as large-scale developments simply destroy them. There should also be some mechanism for preventing cumulative erosion of a locality through successive proposals coming forward, instead of each one being considered on a piecemeal basis.

Climate adaptation is mentioned- but climate mitigation also needs consideration. How will we heat these homes in a net zero world? how will we make them more eneergy efficient? How will council approach energy efficiency in conservation areas - and does this stack up?

Protecting landscapes is more important than buildings. Landscapes need to be as biodiverse, CO2-sequestering and water-absorbing as possible. Historic buildings need massive retro-fitting to achieve PassivHaus standards.