In broad terms Turnstone supports the Development Principles set out in the AAP document but would make a number of specific points where it is felt the emphasis or indeed substance of a particular point should be differently expressed, as follows: -

* Objective 2C - this objective should be strengthened to make it abundantly clear that the Council is seeking for CNFE to be delivered as a high quality, exemplar commercial-led scheme. As written the objective does not provide for this important aspiration.
* Objective 2D - Turnstone supports the concept of higher density development, but does not agree that this should be focused "around the transport hub" which implies the new railway station. That may well have been an appropriate response in Central Cambridge where CB1 achieves a hitherto unseen commercial density in its City context, but it is not felt to be appropriate in this case. The AAP should seek to ensure that such larger scale and denser development that takes place should be centrally located within the AAP area and should not be reflected by the erection of large scale buildings at the eastern edge of the wider site - i.e. where the railway station is to be situated. It is considered that the scale and massing as well as the density of development should step down where the CNFE area adjoins and interacts with open countryside and could impact adversely on the setting of the City unless carefully managed and integrated. Turnstone considers that there is an obvious interface for an aggregation of larger scale buildings where the designated CNFE area meets with the existing parks in the area, such as St John's Innovation Park, the Cambridge Business Park and the Cambridge Science Park.
* Objective 3F - this objective should have a higher ambition of relocating existing businesses, particularly where they are non-conforming, as being "appropriate" and not merely as "possible".
* Objective 3G - it should not be automatically assumed that the strategic aggregates railhead will be required to be retained on the CNFE site in perpetuity. There may be opportunities to consider other locations whereby its presence will not detract from the quality of development that the Council should be properly seeking at CNFE.
* Objective 6K - this objective needs to be broadened to reflect and recognise the other transport modes and routes by which people will access the CNFE area. As written it largely assumes that the railway station and the busway alone are what makes the area a transport hub. That is short-sighted as there is other transport infrastructure such as cycle routes, roads and conventional buses that can equally provide ready access to and from CNFE.
* Objective 7O - this objective should be caveated by the addition of the words "where necessary".