Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Health Impact Assessment Supplementary Planning Document
Representation ID: 200185
Received: 15/01/2025
Respondent: Historic England
There is currently no reference to the role of the historic environment and heritage in improving health and wellbeing. Our website highlights some of the research and evidence around this topic, and considers the relationship between heritage and physical health, mental health and wellbeing.
Therefore, we recommend that some text is added to the SPD to highlight the potential for positive impacts of heritage in relation to health and wellbeing and to build this into the framework for Health Impact Assessments.
Dear Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Policy Team
Please see attached Historic England’s response to the Health Impact Assessment SPD.
Please confirm receipt of our response.
Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely
Debbie Mack
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Health Impact Assessment Supplementary Planning Document
Representation ID: 200207
Received: 22/01/2025
Respondent: Dr Stephen Davies
The conceptual model adopted is inadequate and inconsistent with national guidance because it marginalises the critical issue of health and social care infrastructure.
The conceptual model adopted in the draft SPD (figure 1) is inadequate and inconsistent with Public Health (PHE) England guidance on Health Impact Assessment PHE guidance says that provision of health and care infrastructure should be considered as part of the HIA process (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-impact-assessment-in-spatial-planning page 14). Greater Cambridge is experiencing house-building driven increases in demand for health and social care at a pace that is overwhelming the provision of these services, so this is a critical issue. Despite this, figure 1 focuses only on the social and environmental determinants of health and completely ignores the need for health and social care infrastructure. This partial framing is, to some extent, offset by detail elsewhere in the draft SPD, for example item 6a in the checklist. But the overall effect is to play down the importance of the infrastructure issue, which will be critical to the future sustainability of Cambridge. I also draw your attention to paragraph 101 of the NPPF as amended December 2024. This needs to be foregrounded in the SPD. The current draft marginalises the infrastructure challenge. This is inconsistent with the NPPF and with PHE guidance and disregards a major issue facing Greater Cambridge.
Support
Draft Greater Cambridge Health Impact Assessment Supplementary Planning Document
Representation ID: 200537
Received: 24/01/2025
Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council
We welcome the recognition of public open space and green infrastructure designed to improve public health within the Health Impact Assessment.
Dear Sirs
Greater Cambridge Supplementary Planning Documents Consultation
1) Planning Obligations
2) Health Impact Assessment
3) Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Consultation Response by Cambridgeshire County Council
I refer to the consultation on the above supplementary planning documents and thank GCSPS for affording the County Council the opportunity to comment. Please find attached to this letter comments that I have received from services at the County Council. I trust that this will be of assistance to GCSPS in progressing the supplementary planning documents.
Please feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss this further.
Yours sincerely
Colum Fitzsimons
Development and Policy Manager
Planning, Growth and Environment