Dear South Cambs District Council

I am responding to the consultation on the PEVDP SPD as a Papworth owner-resident for the last 21+ years.
I attended the open exhibition in the village hall recently and want to record my comments before the deadline.

Page 9: Other priorities
Greater emphasis on the historic role of the Village and its residents in support of the Royal Papworth Hospital would be welcomed, as this has been unique in the UK. Development which celebrates this appropriately to keep the spirit of the Village community alive following the departure of the Hospital to the New Papworth site in Cambridge

Sports facilities should be expanded where possible at an affordable
price: - I ran a successful junior Badminton club here for nearly 10 years, based at the school and old Village Hall, but it would be priced out from existing.

Strategy needed for vacant or derelict sites throughout the village is a welcome priority to reflect the need to encourage more home-owning incomers to help retain and improve the longer-term viability of village facilities.

Page 20: The Royal Papworth
3.3 While I agree with the concluding "active frontage to the landscape." I feel that reinstatement to the original openable facades and terraces is a bit too restrictive.

Whole document
I am sure, like all Papworth residents, it would be good to have all maps consistently marked as to the actual NHS Hospital Trust boundaries, because several maps are misleadingly including leased Papworth Hall grounds etc.

Whole viliage
Rental paying villagers have noted during this year's Annual Meeting, over the years, the hidden and sometimes overt "turf wars" the other 2 major land-owners has to some extent been mitigated by the presence of the hospital, so we are fearful village maintenance responsibility issues and development impasse in the future.