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Representation ID: 31802

Received: 02/10/2017

Respondent: Natural Cambridgeshire

While the open spaces proposed for the development site are local in nature, they will not meet resident's needs for accessing larger open spaces or achieve significant biodiversity gains.
The larger open spaces that residents will access include Wandlebury Country Park and National Trust estates such as Anglesey Abbey and Wicken Fen. This will place increased visitor pressure on these sites, some of which are already struggling with capacity at peak times and which can impact on the biodiversity of those sites. This is not factored into the SPD or the suggested mitigation. We note the AAP concept plan on page 10 shows a new country park - which highlights the need for this kind of space. We are concerned that piecemeal developments such as LNCH and Wing will fail to contribute financially towards the creation of new large public spaces or towards offsetting the impacts on existing sites. We would like to see this addressed directly in the SPD.