Comment

Representation ID: 168475

Received: 11/10/2019

Respondent: Southern & Regional Developments

Agent: Claremont Planning Consultancy Ltd

Inappropriate reliance on strategic allocations to provide majority of numbers.

The allocations for significant housing delivery at New Settlements within South Cambridgeshire is a primary component of the spatial strategy. The identification of multiple new settlements within the area demonstrates an approach that could be seen as inappropriately relying on strategic numbers for delivery. Delivery rates should be approach in a pragmatic away. Concerns are raised that there is a lack of detailed site assessment work to justify proposed levels of housing. The assumed development yields from the allocated sites appear to be ambiguous and crude densities have been applied. These densities do not appear to allow for wider factors associated with developing sites such as required infrastructure and roads, easements, site shapes or the prevailing character of the wider area in which the site is located.