Question 4

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How can 20,000 new jobs fit with homes for 18,000 people? Assuming that many of the new employees will have partners (not all of whom will have one of the new jobs) and some will have children, that adds up to considerably more than 20,000. Does this mean that people are expected to commute in from villages? There is already vast pressure on housing in and around Cambridge - the additional pressure potentially caused by these new jobs will force house prices up even further, and mean that those in less well-paid jobs will have to live even further away. The assumption is that everyone living there will be employed - will there be space for retired people? Those who are unable to work? Will there be a care home or sheltered housing for those who require it? Without that diversity, it will not be a real community.

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Attempting to cram 8000 new homes in this area is madness. Even at half of this density it would still be a high density development.

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The existing employees are well paid and no one would want modern box houses

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See my previous comments. I doubt the plan has the right balance now. It must be fully reviewed in light of the new working from home revolution caused by Covid19. There is already a huge amount of unlet office space along the A10 just 4 miles away.

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I honestly think you are trying to cram too many people into this space. Cambridge desperately needs affordable housing but they must be homes where people what to live and can grow with their families, not highrise rabbit hutches. I am also sceptical as to where all the new jobs will come from right now at a time when increasingly companies and employees are seeing the value of homeworking to reduce their overhead expenses and improve work life balance. We don't need to be crammed on tip of each other in offices when many jobs can be done from home and to enable that, people want larger,affordably living spaces, with outdoor space and there is not so much need to be able to walk to an office. There are already empty office spaces on the existing science park and in other cambridge business parks (eg Cambridge research park and others), I don't know what businesses will fill these spaces, let alone the new ones you propose

Mostly not

There seem to be too many jobs in comparison to homes which will increase the number of people travelling into the area from outside and therefore unable to walk or cycle to work, creating more traffic around the whole of North Cambridge and the A14. A variety of jobs in an area of mixed-use buildings is welcomed so that many people can live close to their employment, but a better balance of homes and jobs is needed. Construction should be phased so that this balance remains stable at every stage of development. I don't think the sewage works should be relocated; if all the fine documents that Anglian Water have produced are not a pack of lies, it will be much smaller and can remain where it is using less land. That will alter the unbalance seen.

Mostly not

The proposal is for 18000 more homes but 20000 more jobs. Where do the other 2000 people live? Will they be travelling in on the already congested roads and cycle ways?

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Mostly not

If the number of people coming into the area for work is greater than the number of people the new housing is designed for, there will be immense strain on the already stretched roads in Cambridge.

Mostly not

You say you are building 8,000 homes but by potentially creating 20,000 new jobs surely this will increase the demand for housing, therefore meaning more people will potentially be on the roads travelling to these jobs. Will the plans be modified now that the pandemic has meant more people working from home. Won't this change the nature of how peoplework, and will they need to live so close to their work. Will so much office space be required?

Mostly not

There seem to be too many jobs in comparison to homes which will increase the number of people travelling into the area from outside and therefore unable to walk or cycle to work, creating more traffic around the whole of North Cambridge and the A14. A variety of jobs in an area of mixed-use buildings is welcomed so that many people can live close to their employment, but a better balance of homes and jobs is needed. Construction should be phased so that this balance remains stable at every stage of development.

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Mostly not

I disagree with the balance of business accommodation as against homes. No problem about expansion of the Science Park (lucky Trinity College!) since no housing is planned over there. But why so much business space in the east when what Cambridge needs is homes? I urge you to reduce business use in favour of homes. I have no problem about 8000 homes and 18000 residents as long as design is good, traffic is well managed, transport is dramatically improved and open space is increased. Under these conditions I'd even go further; better to provide as many homes as close as possible to the centre and to jobs. Let's not squander this space. 40% affordability should be a minimum since these will be the only homes likely to be kept from bulk-buying investors who then rent out at sky-high prices and further push up local housing costs. Even so, at 80% of local market values these 3200 homes won't all be affordable for residents on normal salaries/wages. Only the 60% of the 40% i.e. 1920 homes will be rented as social/affordable. This figure must be increased if NEC is not to be dominated by commuters on City of London salaries [though whether Covid has undermined this expectation is an interesting question for developers?]. Since publicly-owned land is a major component of NEC, it isn't unreasonable to look for a minimum of 3000 social/affordable homes. I'm appalled to see (in 8.9 Trajectories) that no homes will be built until 2025 whereas business development sees its most vigorous growth immediately in the 2020 to 2025 five-year period. For housing the most vigorous growth isn't until 2030-35. The need in Cambridge is for homes before offices. I support the proposals for industrial provision. It should not be reduced as a consequence of the plan.

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It is not clear where people will live if 20,000 new jobs are being created. This may well mean 40,000 more people, and yet the plan is to provide housing for 18,000 people. Where will the rest of the people live? This will accentuate rather ameliorate the Cambridge housing crisis. Whilst the documents talk of providing housing for those on lower incomes, it is not clear how these will be properly affordable for a genuinely diverse community. Cambridge is already the most unequal city in the country and already since COVID hit we have seen friends who work in the cultural sector decide to relocate to cities such as Bristol and Norfolk. This is driven both by housing costs but also the sense that the city does not have either the infrastructure or commitment to support the cultural sector as it works out how to recover.

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Planners always seem to think that people will work close to their home. In reality it just does not work like. To talk of 20,000 new jobs into the area is ridiculous.

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Planners always seem to think that people will work close to their home. In reality it just does not work like. To talk of 20,000 new jobs into the area is ridiculous.

Mostly not

Is this forecast made with CV-19 factored in? By your own data, it appears that there are too many jobs to housing, which means that people would have to travel in and/or be housed elsewhere.

Neutral

Very vague. You have stated there are already 15,000 jobs in this area, they are mostly jobs that cause noise and pollution. Will they still be in the same place? As you have stated there are only 3 homes in this area. Do the people living in them work in the area? Those other 14,997 people live elsewhere and need to travel by whatever means they choose. it means that there will be 5,000 new jobs created for the 19,000 new residents. In turn this means 14,000 of them will be travelling away from NEC to find work elsewhere.

Mostly not

Too many new homes without gardens.

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20,000 new jobs could translate into double that number of people, with housing planned for 18,000. Where will the extra numbers live? Will they commute in from elsewhere - on what transport?

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We note that, despite the stated aim of helping to address housing demand in Cambridge, that the proposed development will actually bring a net increase in demand.

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You have an excess of jobs to homes. The homies are atto densely packed to gather and are not suitable for a society living with Covid 19.

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Mostly not

There should be more housing, preferably more under housing associations or council owned. Maybe a co-housing or co-op community. There should not be high rise blocks that would obliterate views and light.

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That is much too large a number of new homes in an already over populated area. That number of houses will lead to an increase in traffic on Milton road and there are not sufficient safeguards in place to stop this

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There will be too many jobs (35,000) compared to homes (8000) which will increase the number of people travelling into the area from outside and therefore unable to walk or cycle to work, creating more traffic around the whole of North Cambridge and the A14, and leading to gridlock on Milton Road. A variety of jobs in an area of mixed-use buildings is welcomed so that people can live close to their place of employment, but the number of jobs to homes is out of balance and will exacerbate rather than improve Cambridge's housing problem.

Mostly yes

the building should be low level. we don't wan thigh rise living in cambridge, as I believe they are the ghettos of tomorrow. We dont want the cambridge skyline and views spoiled by high rises either