Savills Planning Team in Cambridge are instructed on behalf of St John's College, Cambridge to submit responses 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.

As with the College's response to Q10, it remains the case that the College's landholdings at the Innovation Park should be considered in Option 2 as having the same potential for the intensification of employment provision in the same way that the Cambridge Business Park has been identified, i.e. plot densification. We cannot see why any differentiation is made when comparing the two areas. Indeed the current St John's Innovation Park density is considerably lower than the Business Park - the opportunities that are afforded by increasing floorspace in both those areas is consistent with Objective 3 of the Plan. Consequently we feel that the key and the plan for Option 2 needs amending to ensure that plot densification also applies to the St John's land. Indeed work undertaken by SQW on behalf of the Council's "CNFE Employment Guidance for the Area Action Plan" and which is the supporting material for the Issues and Options Report makes it quite clear at paragraphs 1.29 and 1.34 that intensification of the St John's Innovation Park is acceptable without affecting the quality of development. (There is no logic as to why plot intensification could not come forward now. It is not dependant on anything that might or might not happen with the Anglian Water landholding and which is implied by Options 3 and 4)

Additionally the proposed location of the Household Waste Recycling Centre and inert recycling facility remains in the same location as shown in Option 1 and where the College have strong concerns about the appropriateness of such a new facility in that location having regard to the proximity to the offices and research activities at the Innovation Park.