Savills Planning Team in Cambridge are instructed on behalf of St John's College, Cambridge to submit responses to the Issues and Options Report on the CNFE having regard to the College's landholdings and land interests at St John's Innovation Park west of Cowley Road and east of Milton Road.

The plan for the CNFE suggests either resisting any hotel uses within any part of the Plan area or encouraging a hotel use as part of the mixed use development of land around the proposed railway station. We consider that a hotel use in any part of the CNFE subject to its siting and relationship to other land uses would be appropriate and there should be no geographical limitation as to where such facilities should be provided. In the instance where the mixed-use development area around the Railway Station has higher land uses and a hotel cannot be forming part of the development for whatever reason but can find an alternative location elsewhere than in the CNFE then the Plan should not prevent it coming forward. Whether the hotel forms part of the mixed use development around the Railway Station is not important in our view - the key is provision of a hotel in a location which will serve the whole of the Cambridge Northern Fringe East as well as the wider area.