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20.1 Paragraphs 9.11 through to 9.16 acknowledge the importance of the Northern Fringe as a potential employment hub for the Cambridge area. Increased accessibility provided by the new railway station and enhanced links through the Guided Busway will together ensure that higher density and more productive land use can realistically be encouraged to maximise the development potential and meet the objectives of the Plan area. Work commissioned by the Councils acknowledges the continuing pressure and demand for employment space in Cambridge in general, and specifically in the City Centre and the Northern Fringe around the Science Park. Development of a major new employment area will respond to the market and help to deliver new buildings in a sustainable location.

20.2 Paragraph 9.14 of the Plan recognises that the area should meet the needs of a range of users, including small businesses and start-ups as well as major firms with large numbers of employees. The St John's Innovation Centre specifically and the Innovation Park area more generally form critical components of the Cambridge economy. It is crucial that the CNFE acknowledges that the immediate area around the St John's Innovation Centre (including circulation areas and other
buildings around the Innovation Park) provide real potential to increase employment floorspace and to capitalise on specific assets for which the Cambridge economy is famous.

20.3 We therefore support the emphasis on specialist sectors indicated as the basis for the creation of new employment clusters in the CNFE. We also support an approach which sees the area delivering a flexible range of unit types and sizes, including facilities suitable for start ups and small and medium size enterprises, and commercial laboratory space. Variety of employment space will be critical in delivering new employment on new areas of land as well as consolidating existing
employment areas at the Cambridge Business Park and St John's Innovation Park.