Comment

Representation ID: 168643

Received: 14/04/2021

Respondent: South Cambridgeshire District Council

Mapping
In earlier comments to the Waterbeach Neighbourhood Plan we had suggested to the Parish Council that they should include a map to cover the whole of their parish to provide a comprehensive Policies Map. The Submission Plan does not include such a map that brings together all the site allocations and site-specific issues. Practitioners generally find it useful to go to a single point for land related designations, such as in a Policies Map with more detailed Inset Maps for areas where there are a number of policy designations, rather than have a number of maps to look at that are dotted through a Plan.

We also highlighted that any map showing the intention of policies in the Plan show be accurate and at a scale large enough to be clearly seen. We consider that the Plan would benefit if a Policies Map at A3 scale were included so that it is easy to read for a future user of the Plan. Alternatively consideration could be given to the approach used in our Local Plan Policies Map where individual villages can be covered by several A4 maps at legible and easy to read scales.