Savills Planning Team in Cambridge are instructed on behalf of St John's College, Cambridge to make response to the Issues and Options Report on the CNFE having regard to the College's landholdings and land interests at St John's Innovation Park west of Cowley Road and east of Milton Road.

The broad objectives cover the matters that are considered relevant to the new development within the boundary of the Area Action Plan. However we consider that it is important to stress the importance of ensuring that there is an appropriate relationship between each of the land uses that are intending to come forward in each of the options. There is a danger in this context that whilst each of the different areas may come forward in different timescales, it is vital that the consequences and implications of development are assessed in terms of the impact upon the neighbouring land uses.

Whilst there is reference to a new neighbourhood being "well integrated with the wider community", it is possible to simply assume that this relates to the new residential areas near the station given the reference to "neighbourhood". A more focussed objective which acknowledges the importance of securing appropriate relationships between different uses within the plan area seems to be relevant in our view. This is partly due to the College's concern about the proximity and relationship of any proposed "Household Waste Recycling Centre and inert recycling facility" to the existing B1 uses on their landholding on the west side of Cowley Road. These specific issues are raised under separate representation.

In the light of the above and the need to express the need for proper planning of the area and the need to ensure appropriate land use relationships between both new and existing developments and indeed new adjacent developments to one another, it is recommended that Proposed Objective 1 be amended to read:

"Deliver a place that fosters a range of new development which is integrated into wider community and where appropriate land use relationships are secured between new and existing development."