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.

Option B on phasing and delivery approach as set out within the Issues and Options Report seems to suggest that a requirement of a planning application for the first phase of development will need to provide a masterplan for the whole of the AAP area. Firstly it is unclear as to where the first phase of development will take place and we have seen nothing in the plan as published for consultation that suggests there is a phased approach to the development. Certainly the redevelopment options are not phasing plans and therefore it is difficult to understand the logic whereby a developer of any area of land within the Plan area is charged for providing a masterplan for the whole of the area. In our view the AAP as drafted and as expressed within Option A on page 68 of the report, should provide the principles for a development framework against which individual phases of redevelopment should come forward alongside their own detailed planning application. The onus placed on the first developer to set out a Masterplan for the whole of the CNFE is entirely unreasonable and should be resisted.