I am a resident of Waterbeach and would like to note my support for Waterbeach Parish Council's designated area to SCDC as part of agreeing a Neighbourhood Plan for the village.
Waterbeach has lost the buffer zone between itself and the proposed new town on the Barracks site, meaning that there is no separation between the two. This has considerable implications for Waterbeach residents. Although we do not yet know the size of the development, recent changes to planning rules announced by G Osborne in the July Budget have given a defacto green light to building on brown field sites. There will be development of at least that part of the Barracks. It is essential that any expansion within the parish boundary should be considered by the Parish Council and relevant funding streams applied for the benefit of the whole of Waterbeach - the designated area submitted to SCDC would allow for this.
I believe it would be fundamentally anti-democratic to vary the Parish boundary to exclude the Barracks site from the remit of the Parish Council as part of its designated area.
Yours
Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown