Comment
Cambridge Northern Fringe East AAP - Issues and Options
Representation ID: 30279
Received: 02/02/2015
Respondent: Turnstone Estates Limited
Agent: Carter Jonas
Turnstone does not object per se to the possibility of some or all of the Nuffield Road estate being redeveloped for housing if that is considered locally to be a more appropriate use for the area having regard to access constraints. Turnstone however notes that it is not essential to develop this land for housing and the City Council is not reliant on it to meet its housing targets in the emerging Local Plan.
Turnstone does not object per se to the possibility of some or all of the Nuffield Road estate being redeveloped for housing if that is considered locally to be a more appropriate use for the area having regard to access constraints. Turnstone however notes that it is not essential to develop this land for housing and the City Council is not reliant on it to meet its housing targets in the emerging Local Plan. It is noted that one of the suggested provisos to the possible development of this land for housing is that uses should be relocated within CNFE. Two points can be made here. The first is that it may be the case that not all occupiers of the Nuffield Road estate wish to move at all and they ought not to be forced to. The second point is that even if they are willing to be displaced it should not be automatically assumed that they must be relocated onto the CNFE site. For a host of reasons that may not be appropriate or necessary.