I wish to comment on the draft Bourn Airfield New Village Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).

Overall planning for this area north of London is continuing piecemeal. Different planning bodies within transport, housing and employment from the Government down, have their own agendas. These include the Oxford to Cambridge Arc (a glint in the planner's eye as an outer ring road to London, parallel to the M25?); the Oxford to Cambridge Railway, the Cambridge Metro and the Cambourne to Cambridge Busway together with all the associated housing developments and employment plans for this vast corridor. It is uncoordinated, eventually leading to chaos.

I live in Hardwick and my doctor and dentist are a ten minute drive away in Comberton village. If I go by bus it takes at least an hour by Citi4 and then bus number 18. Nothing will persuade me to travel by bus and leave the car at home as long as I can drive. It is wishful thinking to expect many new residents to use the bus, however swift, when they will need to connect with a second bus to reach their destination. They need to go beyond the end of the bus route in the centre of Cambridge. Like me, the residents of Bourn Airfield will have a multiplicity of destinations inevitably involving an impractical journey using at least two buses.

There will be at least five or six thousand cars based in the new development. No connection is planned between the A428 and the M11 at Girton. No direct connection to the A428 is planned from Bourn Airfield. The folly of this will become more apparent as building proceeds.

You have set six planning objectives yet you fail miserably on the very first aim:- that the development should be "A well-connected place".

That means that the traffic it generates should be able to connect with the national road network at the earliest opportunity. Instead no direct connection is planned to the A428. The result will be thousands of cars trying to get onto a faster road, meandering about on the local minor roads seeking to avoid the congestion. Already the adjacent villages have problems making the right turn eastwards, across the traffic, to leave for Cambridge. This causes traffic to pile up at the village exit.

The absence of a direct connection to the A428 is an example of disastrous piecemeal planning and of penny-pinching at its worst. In five or ten years' time the connection will become a costly, desperate last resort to try to solve the gridlock; and at whose expense?

The Highways Agency itself has its doubts about the transport plans for the Bourn Airfield development. This connection to the A428 should be built now together with the A428 connection to Girton Interchange.