Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan

Comment

Representation ID: 55692

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

Neutral:
The proposal not to specify minimum levels of cycle parking to be provided to allow for site-specific solutions is supported. The range of cycles has increased, and it is agreed that a percentage of parking should be suitable for larger cycles, but it is considered that the policy should require this to justified in each instance rather than setting a minimum percentage in the policy.

Comment

Representation ID: 55693

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

Neutral:
The principle of safeguarding land for the CAM is sensible but it is questioned whether a development plan policy can specifically safeguard what is acknowledged as being only an indicative area. The Consultation Draft itself acknowledges that more certainty will be given as the plan process advances.

Comment

Representation ID: 55694

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

No specific comments.

Support

Representation ID: 55695

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

The street hierarchy set out in the Policy and in Figure 40 is logical, and the principle of car barns is supported. They should be located “where they are accessible to residents and workers” as proposed and it should be made clear the locations shown on Figure 40 are indicative.

Comment

Representation ID: 55696

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

Neutral:
It is accepted that motorised vehicular trips will need to be managed, and sustainable travel options enhanced. Whilst the Plan could and indeed should encourage developers to work together to agree a site-wide Transport Assessment and Travel Plan with the local highway authority as proposed, the local authorities have a key role in this regard, and development should not be dependent on just all developers working together.

The importance of limiting vehicular trips generated by new development is understood and the College remains committed to developing sustainable transport measures. Whilst planning for a three-fold increase in the amount of commercial floor space on the Innovation Park, no increase in car parking provision is planned on the Park. Car parking across the area, and beyond, should be assessed in light of further development parcel capacity work across the area in response to the responses to this consultation. There should not be a blanket requirement for each land parcel to reduce its existing car parking allocation / occupancy.

Object

Representation ID: 55697

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

It is important, as required by the Local Plans, that planning applications submitted before the adoption of the AAP can be considered on their own merits and subject to ensuring that they would not prejudice the outcome of the AAP process and the achievement of the comprehensive vision for the area as a whole that will be established by the AAP. This is important to ensure that the benefits of development that would not prejudice the outcome can be delivered without delay.

The requirement for a masterplan to support applications is understood, but the policy as currently worded does not make it clear what area a masterplan is expected to cover.

c. i. as currently worded requires proposals to be landscape-led with respect to layout and access. Landscape is a key component in creating great places and should be a key driver in determining layout and access, but layout and access should not necessarily be landscape-led.

Support

Representation ID: 55698

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

Positive intervention, in the form of land assembly and the relocation of existing floorspace and uses (and thereby existing businesses), is to be welcomed.

Policy 24a simply reiterates the steps and tests required in order to use compulsory purchase.

Support

Representation ID: 55699

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

Positive intervention, in the form of land assembly and the relocation of existing floorspace and uses (and thereby existing businesses), is to be welcomed.

Policy 24a simply reiterates the steps and tests required in order to use compulsory purchase.

Object

Representation ID: 55700

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

The requirement to fully consider all environmental impacts to ensure that the future health, quality of life, amenity and the natural environment is supported.

Pre-application discussions with the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service to determine the individual submission requirements for impact assessments as stated should not be required. Guidance should clearly set this out.

There are concerns that the Cambridge City Council’s Technical note of the interpretation of Planning Applications in the vicinity of Cambridge Water Recycling Centre (October 2018) carried out by Odournet is not a robust evidence base on which to make decisions – see the Assessment of the impact of odour from Cambridge Water Recycling Centre on St John's Innovation Park Masterplan Phase 1 submitted as part of applications 20/03523/FUL and 20/03524/FUL.

Comment

Representation ID: 55701

Received: 02/10/2020

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills

Neutral:
As with land assembly and the relocation of existing floorspace and uses (policies 24a and 24b), the Councils’ commitment to positive intervention, in this instance in the form of work with the Minerals and Waste Authority and relevant landowners in securing a suitable off-site relocation for the Veolia Waste Recycling Transfer Station within the Cowley Road Industrial Estate, is welcome.

Use classes will need to reviewed in light of the recent changes including the reference to light industrial in the policy (which was B1c and is now E(g)(iii)) which is stated to be B2 in the policy. The supporting text correctly refers to General Industrial (B2) rather than light industrial.