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.

The proposed approach within the Plan is to provide a design-led approach which reflects the location within the City having regard to the different land uses, viability and other policies of the Plan. In this context, we support the Council's approach which does not seek to impose general densities across sites since there are many determining factors which affect density and these should be left to the design stage. The example of the Science Park and the application of percentage coverage figures as well as densities has been rejected more recently for a more sensible design led approach which looks critically at the site and its surroundings rather than applying a general density across a large site.