Comment

Representation ID: 167275

Received: 18/10/2018

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

1. INTRODUCTION
Comment that County Council has been involved in preparation of SPD, it reflects engagement to date and aspirations to deliver a comprehensive development across the whole site, but important that sufficient flexibility for additional houses proposed in planning applications.

Council fed into preparation of draft SPD at officer level, working with Local Planning Authority its consultants and two developers. Included submission of formal comments and attendance at various workshops over last 15 months.

Considered that draft SPD represents a fair reflection of the engagement to date.

Infrastructure delivery plan is based on policy compliant development for a range of 8,000 to 9,000 dwellings. Council want to ensure SPD and particularly the delivery plan is sufficiently flexible to address the additional infrastructure demands from current applications for 11,000 dwellings.

Council wishes to ensure that objectives of local plan policy and SPD to deliver comprehensive development across whole site needs to be translated into greater cooperation between developers and to achieve successful delivery of development.