Comment

Waterbeach New Town Supplementary Planning Document

Representation ID: 167313

Received: 25/10/2018

Respondent: Mr Peter Mottram

Representation Summary:

4.2 KEY STRUCTURING ELEMENTS (FIXES)
HIERARCHY OF CENTRES
Station district - do not support high height for this district. adjacent to fenland location so keep housing to low-rise and light pollution to the minimum required.

Full text:

Station district - do not support high height for this district. adjacent to fenland location so keep housing to low-rise and light pollution to the minimum required.

Segregated access to the existing village utilizing cody road should not be accessible from the new development by private vehicle, to avoid it becoming a rat run. Taxi and bus and emergency services may have access.

Car parking from new development should be limited with amply cycle parking and linking bus routes to facilitate public transport.

Primary movement should not have linked secondary routes, to ensure that only the primary route/loop are favoured for cars. This would be similar to development in Milton with a linking road and multiple cul-de-sac from this into the housing area. Linking foot and cycle paths then become the preferential means of movement within the development.

Cycle routes should be committed to being high quality with ample width - 3m wide hard smooth surfaces. Green-way link to Cambridge and new station should be required before >3000 homes are developed, to ensure cycling becomes embedded as a main transport option to Cambridge. Otherwise the A10 will become a car park!

Bus services tot he village have recently been cut - no service to Cody road any more. Needs assurances that planned services and improvements will be followed through before too much of the development it built..