Question 29. How flexible should we be about the uses we allow in our city, town, district, local and village centres?
There should be space to try new ideas, but essential/core local services should be protected. E.g. everyone should be able to easily access libraries, leisure facilities and health services.
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We believe a flexible approach is desirable. Over time, employment in established villages tends to decline and so it is important that as many forms of employment are allowed in villages consistent with environmental concerns. It is not simply the uses but the scale too. Some uses, on a modest scale, may be perfectly acceptable in or close to existing villages.
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While shopping and leisure habits have changed and will continue to do so, the Plan should still try to keep town centres vibrant by making them the preferred locations for many shops and leisure venues rather than out of town locations.
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Total flexibility is needed to cater for a dynamic economy and the changing nature of work.
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Local communities should be actively consulted regarding new development and change of use.
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In the city centre there are too many corporate chain shops because they are the only ones that can fund the rent prices. To properly invade with the local community you need to apply affordable rates for small independent business to grow the city center shopping community. Boast the prices on corporate businesses that have millions in the bank and create possibilities for small independent stores that actually give back to the community. At the moment there are no local art galleries that shows young local artists work, how about using these many spaces that are sitting empty for creative spaces to showcase the brilliant art the locals produce. Also puts Cambridge on the map as a art cultured city. The online retail game is killing small businesses give the local business relief rates instead of letting costas move in or letting the shop space be empty because you can’t get the high price for it
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LOWER RATES FOR INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES
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We should encourage greater flexibility in use of space. In particular as online retail continues to replace bricks and mortars retail, it must become easy to convert retail developments into residential developments. That way more people could afford, for example, to live in the centre of Cambridge.
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Very flexible. Retail should be allowed to be converted to residential or business use without much restriction. This is because retail space will keep declining as more and more shopping goes online.
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We believe a flexible approach is desirable. Over time, employment in established settlements tends to decline and so it is important that as many forms of employment are allowed in villages consistent with environmental concerns. It is not simply the uses but the scale too. Some uses, on a modest scale, may be perfectly acceptable in or close to existing settlements.
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We believe a flexible approach is desirable. Over time, employment in established settlements tends to decline and so it is important that as many forms of employment are allowed in villages consistent with environmental concerns. It is not simply the uses but the scale too. Some uses, may be perfectly acceptable in or close to existing settlements. This is evidenced by the high occupancy rates of the Buckingway Business Park and the range of uses attracted to this location.
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The College considers the key issue is to ensure the settlement hierarchy is as sustainable as possible. This means centres being able to respond quickly to changing requirements and consumer/market trends rather than seeking to protect a particular land use or traditional vision of a “centre”. This is most clearly demonstrated in the declining role of “traditional” retail uses and the changing role of town centres which need to embrace a much wider range of uses – leisure, health, education, community, hospitality, residential etc – as well as retail. Clearly not all centres in the hierarchy can attract or support all uses – they need to be able to define their own identities. In particular, some of Cambridgeshire’s smaller villages need to attract new residential and economic bases to support essential services if they are to survive and prosper. The Councils should take a pro-active approach in creating strategies to future proof the area’s city, town, district, local and village centres, identifying the opportunities for creating vibrant and viable centres for the benefit of existing and future resident, student and employee communities.
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We believe a flexible approach is desirable. Over time, employment in established settlements tends to decline and so it is important that as many forms of employment are allowed in villages consistent with environmental concerns. It is not simply the uses but the scale too. Some uses, on a modest scale, may be perfectly acceptable in or close to existing settlements.
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We believe a flexible approach is desirable. Over time, employment in established settlements tends to decline and so it is important that as many forms of employment are allowed in villages consistent with environmental concerns. It is not simply the uses but the scale too. Some uses, on a modest scale, may be perfectly acceptable in or close to existing settlements.
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As long as all uses consider the impacts (noise, smells, traffic, etc etc ) on all others. The more diverse the better.
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• We should be very flexible about the uses we allow in our city, town, district, local and village centres. Communities should provide a diverse range of employment, shopping, leisure, religious and educational opportunities as close as reasonably possible to homes to enable shorter and more sustainable journeys. • The Local Plan should embrace the notion of 'compact development' that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach.
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Communities should provide a diverse range of employment, shopping, leisure and educational opportunities as close as reasonably possible to homes to enable shorter and more sustainable journeys. • The Local Plan should embrace the notion of 'compact development' that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach.
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• We should be very flexible about the uses we allow in our city, town, district, local and village centres. Communities should provide a diverse range of employment, shopping, leisure and educational opportunities as close as reasonably possible to homes to enable shorter and more sustainable journeys. • The Local Plan should embrace the notion of 'compact development' that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach.
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The Local Plan should embrace the notion of 'compact development' that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach.
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• We should be very flexible about the uses we allow in our city, town, district, local and village centres. Communities should provide a diverse range of employment, shopping, leisure and educational opportunities as close as reasonably possible to homes to enable shorter and more sustainable journeys. • The Local Plan should embrace the notion of 'compact development' that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach.
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We should be very flexible about the uses we allow in our city, town, district, local and village centres. Communities should provide a diverse range of employment, shopping, leisure and educational opportunities as close as reasonably possible to homes to enable shorter and more sustainable journeys. The Local Plan should embrace the notion of 'compact development' that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach.
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We should be very flexible about the uses we allow in our city, town, district, local and village centres. Communities should provide a diverse range of employment, shopping, leisure and educational opportunities as close as reasonably possible to homes to enable shorter and more sustainable journeys. • The Local Plan should embrace the notion of ‘compact development’ that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach. “Hidalgo has been leading a radical overhaul of the city’s mobility culture since taking office in 2014, and has already barred the most polluting vehicles from entry, banished cars from the Seine quayside and reclaimed road space for trees and pedestrians. Now, she says, Paris needs to go one step further and remodel itself so that residents can have all their needs met—be they for work, shopping, health, or culture—within 15 minutes of their own doorstep.” (O’Sullivan, 2020) “The meta-analysis shows that mode share and likelihood of walking trips are most strongly associated with the design and diversity dimensions of built environments. Intersection density, jobshousing balance, and distance to stores have the greatest elasticities.” (Ewing, 2010) Evidence for our response to Question 29. • O’Sullivan, Feargus (2020). Paris Mayor: It’s Time for a ‘15-Minute City’. CityLab: Feb 18th, 2020. www.citylab.com/environment/2020/02/paris-election-anne-hidalgo-city-planning-walksstores-parks/606325/ • Ewing, Reid and Cervero, Robert (2010). Travel and the Built Environment. Journal of the American Planning Association, 76:3, 265-294.
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We should be flexible, but procect the city centres from housing. If all restrictions were lifted, in Cambridge everything would be eaten up by property developers and local commerce would die. More should be done to protect and encourage new, independent local commerce and to prevent global companies and brands dominating because they're the only ones who can afford to pay the rent.
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• We should be very flexible about the uses we allow in our city, town, district, local and village centres. Communities should provide a diverse range of employment, shopping, leisure and educational opportunities as close as reasonably possible to homes to enable shorter and more sustainable journeys. • The Local Plan should embrace the notion of 'compact development' that reduces the distance that people have to travel for typical everyday needs, keeping them within easy cycling reach.
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Cambridge appears to be dominated by fast food outlets and coffee shop chains, so these should be limited. I've like to see more independent shops.
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As noted in our response to Question 26, the Trumpington Residents’ Association believes it is important to maintain the existing spaces for businesses and shops within our local community. For example, we value the crescent of shops on Anstey Way, which provide an important local facility, complemented by the handful of shop units in Trumpington Meadows and Clay Farm (Hobson Square). It would also be desirable to have an additional local supermarket, although we recognise that there is no suitable location.
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• Taking Fulbourn as an example, it currently has a good mix of shops and services located in its centre, which serve the residents well. The loss of these premises to other uses, such as housing, would begin to change the dynamic, and these commercial facilities would never return. This would, in turn, force people to travel further afield and impact on the remaining shops and services, perhaps resulting in them becoming uneconomic, especially as rent levels rise. • To encourage use of the existing shops we wish to have support, including financial, to improve the High Street, making it more pleasant, better maintained, less polluted, and less dominated by traffic.
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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 new Local Plan should include a vision for the future Cambridge City Centre reflecting the changing nature of city centre streetscapes. Given the rapid evolution currently occurring, the policy on city centre development will need to be flexible with regard to new uses to maintain the City as a vibrant centre.
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