Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 59770
Received: 13/12/2021
Respondent: Mr Barrie Hunt
I welcome the intention to regenerate areas that aren’t yet reaching their potential and would draw the team’s attention to the “Place Standard” Survey carried out by Cllr Sam Davies in Queen Edith’s and published in February 2020.
Conversely, I would hope that the poor practice of creating Nine Wells, which is a small isolated community will be avoided in the development of GB1 and GB2, which currently appear to be disconnected from the heart of Queen Edith’s, including from its shops, pub, café and recreation ground.
(Page 47) Policy S/SH: Settlement hierarchy refers to Windfall proposals for residential development in Cambridge, and elsewhere, being subject to no limit on individual scheme size. As this stands it has the potential to give significant advantage to developers, who will invariably aim for maximum return on their investment in exchange for quality of life in their properties. Local people need to retain control of their destiny. Could the Planning Authority be given powers to determine significant aspects of each new proposal? For example, it is reasonable that , before an application is even begun, that an authority should be able to state that a specific site can have no more than e.g. five dwellings?
Spatial Strategy (Page 39) refers to the desirability of locating homes close to existing and proposed jobs at the cluster of research parks to the south of Cambridge. I would strongly support this and suggest that a similar approach should be adopted at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, with the provision that this is offered as tied accommodation. Such a development has the potential to create genuine affordable housing.
I welcome the intention to regenerate areas that aren’t yet reaching their potential and would draw the team’s attention to the “Place Standard” Survey carried out by Cllr Sam Davies in Queen Edith’s and published in February 2020.
Conversely, I would hope that the poor practice of creating Nine Wells, which is a small isolated community will be avoided in the development of GB1 and GB2, which currently appear to be disconnected from the heart of Queen Edith’s, including from its shops, pub, café and recreation ground.
(Page 47) Policy S/SH: Settlement hierarchy refers to Windfall proposals for residential development in Cambridge, and elsewhere, being subject to no limit on individual scheme size. As this stands it has the potential to give significant advantage to developers, who will invariably aim for maximum return on their investment in exchange for quality of life in their properties. Local people need to retain control of their destiny. Could the Planning Authority be given powers to determine significant aspects of each new proposal? For example, it is reasonable that , before an application is even begun, that an authority should be able to state that a specific site can have no more than e.g. five dwellings?
Spatial Strategy (Page 39) refers to the desirability of locating homes close to existing and proposed jobs at the cluster of research parks to the south of Cambridge. I would strongly support this and suggest that a similar approach should be adopted at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, with the provision that this is offered as tied accommodation. Such a development has the potential to create genuine affordable housing.