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Representation ID: 31800

Received: 02/10/2017

Respondent: Natural Cambridgeshire

The school playing fields extend out with the development site and into the Greenbelt. Whilst playing fields are an excepted use of Greenbelt, some school playing fields are increasingly urban in character, utilising artificial surfaces, ball courts, flood-lighting, fencing, etc. The purpose of the Greenbelt in the location proposed for the school fields is to prevent the merging with Teversham and also as a green corridor linking Cambridge with the rural countryside to the east.
We are concerned that the playing fields could significantly erode both of these functions. No indication in the SPD regarding landscaping on the north-eastern and eastern edges of the playing fields. Assuming the wildlife site are on this boundary, then some of the land allocated for school playing towards its eastern boundary should be reserved for landscaping/buffering and should be clearly indicated in the SPD. Ideally, the playing fields in this location should be allocated as a nature area for the school to use for educational purposes.