Comment

Representation ID: 168318

Received: 29/07/2019

Respondent: Countryside Properties

Agent: Andrew Martin Associates

5 CREATING THE PLACE

CP agree the broad principles of setting a series of overarching guiding principles and key spatial fixes which are required to deliver on site. First sentence "which explain how the strategic objectives should be delivered" is considered too prescriptive, rigid and inflexible. Purpose of SPD is to provide guidance in the form of a framework to guide preparation or determination of planning applications. 'Spatial Fixes' identified to reinforce 'Guiding Principles' are currently very specific and prescriptive.

Clear when comparing with equivalent parts of Waterbeach SPD, i.e. Section 4 'Towards a Spatial Framework' - sets out separately key Structuring Elements or 'Fixes' and Guiding principles. In contrast Bourn Airfield SPD sets out Guiding Principles and Spatial 'Fixes' which are mixed up throughout Section 5. Style of language, which is less prescriptive and inflexible in Waterbeach SPD to be more effective and ask SCDC to revise document accordingly.

Unclear within SPD as drafted whether diagrams are intended to be treated as Guiding Principles or Spatial Fixes. It is assumed that they are Guiding Principles as these are more detailed than an SPD should rightly determine, but SPD places diagrams under Spatial Fix sections of text. It is requested that page layouts are reordered to avoid any confusion.