Comment

Representation ID: 168651

Received: 14/04/2021

Respondent: South Cambridgeshire District Council

Policy WAT 5 Creating and Maintaining Sustainable Access Routes to Waterbeach New Town schools

• Part 2 of policy: The references to the location of schools and that children should not have to cross primary and secondary roads to get to school are not considered to be practicable or in general conformity with the Local Plan policy SS/6 ‘Waterbeach New Town’ sections 1 and 17 which states that an SPD will be prepared for the new town to establish the broad location of key components of the new town or with the spatial framework diagram which identifies school locations and a primary and secondary road layout.

• We had suggested amendments to part 2 of the policy which have not been included. These amendments are as follows ‘To assist this, as far as practicable, school entrances should not be located beside through roads. Additionally, the new town should be arranged, as far as practicable and in general conformity with the Spatial Framework Diagram included in the Waterbeach Supplementary Planning Document, such that the need for children having to cross primary and secondary roads to attend school is minimised and preferably avoided altogether…… ‘