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.

Redevelopment Option 4 as put forwarded within the Plan is based on the assumption that Anglian Water will choose to relocate the whole of the Water Recycling Centre off site. In this context, it is noted that an alternative site has not been identified. We are aware that an alternative site was mooted many years ago but there were significant objections raised in terns of the chosen relocation of the site in addition to other infrastructural concerns that related to logistical and technical matters..

However, in the event that such an Option is pursued, the opportunity afforded by the relocation means that rather than having a constraining land use which has an impact on the nature, scale and type of surrounding land uses, it means that a more comprehensive view can be taken on appropriate development proposals. It remains the case that the CNFE is appropriately identified for largely employment uses with the more residential themes being located in and around any new railway station. The St John's College land around the Innovation Park has been identified within this Option for further development in the context of plot densification. In the circumstances where the Cambridge Business Park has been specifically identified for such a policy approach in this option 4, then it is entirely appropriate that the College land is also included. Certainly there is no difference in terms of the ability of this site to accommodate additional employment floorspace and therefore this should be made clear if this option is to be pursued. To this end we fail to understand why the Innovation Park is not included for plot intensification in Options 1 and 2.

Additionally within Option 4, the proposed household waste recycling centre and inert recycling facility has now been positioned in the north-western corner of the former AW site which means it is adjacent to the Vitrium Building on the Innovation Park. In the absence of a clear definition of what the actual facility is going to look like and indeed its specific functions, it is assumed that the facility is in effect a relocation of the existing facility at Butt Lane in Milton. In the instances where new technology and the policy requirement is for a covered facility, we cannot see how such a use given the nature of the activity and the characteristics of such a centre are compatible with adjacent B1 offices and research and development uses on one of the most important research parks in this part of Cambridge. The location of such a facility in close proximity to the College's land holdings does not make for proper planning and this is especially the case when alternative locations exist across the whole of the land area within the CNFE. Indeed, this option as well as the other options acknowledge that alternative locations exist and in the situation where there is a well established clean, commercial area, it makes no sense in our view to locate such a use adjacent to the existing commercial uses.

Consequently, we object to Option 4.