Comment

Representation ID: 200699

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Cllr Immy Blackburn-Horgan

4d.3.2 & 4d.3.3 Encourage cycling and other forms of wheeling to and from the Campus …to allow for users to be able to access their destination safely. Develop cycle and car parking strategies …new or improved cycling infrastructure, …to manage the approach to car parking …

Safety elements to explore –
i. Increase civic enforcement officers on site to address thefts of bikes on site being moved off site into small residential areas
ii. Cycling routes which need more signage/lighting to use safe and correct routes e.g. P&R to Addenbrooke’s and where fencing has been removed and is making streets have overspill unintended negative impacts from the CBC Site they need reinstating (with gates accessible for bikes/wheelchairs e.g. route on Red Cross Lane to Addenbrookes where both overspill happens and it is a dangerous junction to have direct route cycling onto a main road on the CBC Site / plus motorbikes use daily as a dangerous speeding cut through/replicated Greenlands to Ninewells).

Comment

Representation ID: 200703

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Environment Agency

We support the inclusion of water use in the key principles of sustainability. This location is in an area of serious water stress (as identified in our report Water stressed
areas – 2021 classification) and has the potential to increase abstraction from groundwater sources. We have evidence which indicates that groundwater abstraction to meet current needs of the population is already in some cases causing ecological damage to Water Framework Directive designated waterbodies or there is a risk of causing deterioration in the ecology if groundwater abstraction increases. Therefore, the water resource demand of the development should be considered. This supply needs to be sustainable and have no adverse impact to WFD waterbodies including chalk
streams.  

We encourage grey and rainwater harvesting policies for new developments, designed at an appropriate scale and potentially determined on a case-by-case basis. These
could help to create places resilient to climate change, contribute to achieving NZ emissions and reduce the demand for water. Systems must be reliable for users and so their impact can be accounted for in water resources and flood risk management plans.

Further information is available from Waterwise which has shown that the policies to encourage grey and rainwater harvesting for new development have the most net benefit and we support this position.

Comment

Representation ID: 200704

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Environment Agency

The Biomedical Campus is situated above a Principal Aquifer. We recommend the use of SuDS. These techniques can provide a method for reducing runoff that could otherwise lead to flooding. They can also minimise pollution impacts, improve biodiversity and provide amenity areas.

Where infiltration drainage is proposed, it must be demonstrated that it will not pose a risk to groundwater quality. Infiltration should not be focused in areas where ground contamination has been identified. Surface water infiltrating through contaminated ground can mobilise contaminants and result in pollution of the groundwater.

Where infiltration SuDS are to be used for surface run-off from roads, car parking and public or amenity areas, they should have a suitable series of treatment steps to prevent
the pollution of groundwater. For the immediate drainage catchment areas used for handling and storage of chemicals and fuel, handling and storage of waste and lorry, bus and coach parking or turning areas, infiltration SuDS are not permitted without an environmental permit.

Comment

Representation ID: 200707

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

The effects of any pollution of the watercourse or deterioration in water quality in the Brook and Conduit would be widely seen and felt, including in the River Cam through the City, and at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Emmanuel and Christ’s Colleges, the lakes and water features in whose Listed gardens are fed by the Conduit, and where there are significant habitat concerns.

The replacement of salt for de-icing roads and pavements on the hospital and CBC sites with less noxious proprietary Sodium or Potassium Formate de-icing compounds that we know will be used at Cambridge South station. This requirement could usefully be included in the SPD.

Comment

Representation ID: 200711

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4a.2.1 (p31) We would expect to see some recognition of the way in which existing water features and the extensive surface water SUDs arrangements are integrated with Hobson’s Brook.

Comment

Representation ID: 200712

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4a.2.2 (p31) We note the relationship between these increasingly valuable areas of habitat including that offered by the areas of planting along the Addenbrooke’s Road bridge embankment. Please see references at point 4. above.

Comment

Representation ID: 200713

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

As indicated above, this section should include mention of Nine Wells, Hobson’s Brook and the Gog Magogs, and should include wording more compelling and onerous than ‘seek opportunities to…’. (4a.3.1) The importance of views into, across and over the Campus and hospital site must receive greater emphasis.

In this context the materials to be used for cladding the new Multi Storey Car Park next to the Abcam Building offer an example of imaginative engagement with the geology of Nine Wells. This is in stark contrast with what we see when looking at other nearby multi-storey car parks (AZ and Car Park 2).

Comment

Representation ID: 200714

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4c.2 (p34) We believe that this section should reinforce the need to limit the height of buildings on the Campus.

Comment

Representation ID: 200715

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4d.2.2 (p36) It is very odd that the wording seems to suggest that Cambridge South station is a possibility when in fact it will soon be a reality, open for passengers. East West Rail services may be seen as potentially of future importance, but are not mentioned.

Comment

Representation ID: 200716

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4e.1.4 (p36) We believe that some reference should be made here to water quality concerns, including where, as in the case of the new Cancer Hospital, it is likely that some rainwater will need to be stored before being sent out into the wider drainage assets in order to keep to site-wide maxima, but so creating the possibility of low oxygenation and higher water temperatures in pulses of water sent out from storage in tanks in the new buildings. Reference could be made to the Trust’s legal requirements in relation to new buildings and surface water flows.

Comment

Representation ID: 200717

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4.22 (p37) Reference should be made to the Trust’s legal requirements in relation to new buildings and surface water flows.

Comment

Representation ID: 200718

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4e.3.2 (p38) A reference to protecting Nine Wells Local Nature Reserve should also be included here alongside Hobson’s Brook.