With reference to the Cambridge local plan, S/CBC/A which suggests a ‘Major Change’ by encroaching on 40 hectares of Green Belt to accommodate further development of the Biomedical Campus.

The local plan of 2018 has no indication of such an enormous change and these new proposals contradict your own preferences on protecting the entrance to the City and the Green Belt.

You have already allocated extra land on Dame Mary Archer Way, and that has been accepted. If more is definitely required, that area could be extended round Ninewells, which would have to be carefully landscaped, to the south, while maintaining and enhancing existing hedgerows.

If you were to develop the field to the north east, adjacent to Babraham Road and Granhams Rd. you would be completely breaking your own rules about providing a ‘Sensitive transition between the urban fringe and the open countryside’.

This field also floods regularly.
Your ambitious plans for development on that field would be completely out of keeping with gentle landscape now in place which provides some of the best views in the county. Despoiling this and suggesting that your development would ‘ improve green and natural spaces which are accessible for everyone to enjoy’ is disingenuous. This countryside, and these views are already accessible via the new cycle path, Granhams Rd. and the approach to Cambridge from the East. I’m sure more could be done to enhance accessibility and the wild life as suggested by John Meed in his compelling and scholarly research over 10 years.

Our MP, Anthony Browne, has done a lot of work on the water supply in Cambridge.
It is at a seriously low level. Surely that should influence your plans ?

You have suggested that the new proposed Cambridge South Station demands further development of the biomedical campus, but unfortunately the station design does not seem adequate for existing demands, with poor connections from town, inadequate bus connections and no Parking apart from disabled slots.

The serious delays and congestion in Cambridge have been compounded by a lack of forward planning over the last 20 years. We are not impressed and expect to see some workable, affordable, transport solutions in place before any more major building takes place. Charging people for access to Cambridge would be good for the Council but not for anyone else, and we would all like to see a real commitment from the planners for a top class transport system.

I do not see that ‘Exceptional Circumstances’ are in place to justify your local plan and the consultation since 2018 has been inadequate.