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Cambridge Northern Fringe East AAP - Issues and Options
Representation ID: 29871
Received: 02/02/2015
Respondent: St John's Innovation Centre
The CNFE plan suggests either resisting any hotel uses within any part of the Plan area or encouraging a hotel as part of mixed use development of land around the railway station. Subject to its siting and relationship to other land, we consider that a hotel in any part of the CNFE would be appropriate and that there should be no geographical limitation on where such facilities should be provided. If the mixed-use development area around the railway station has higher land use potential (and an hotel therefore cannot form part of that development) but an alternative location can be found elsewhere, the Plan should not prevent it. Whether the hotel specifically forms part of the mixed use development around the Railway Station is not important in our view; what does matter is that provision be made for an hotel in a location which will serve the whole of the Cambridge Northern Fringe East and the wider area.
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The CNFE plan suggests either resisting any hotel uses within any part of the Plan area or encouraging a hotel as part of mixed use development of land around the railway station. Subject to its siting and relationship to other land, we consider that a hotel in any part of the CNFE would be appropriate and that there should be no geographical limitation on where such facilities should be provided. If the mixed-use development area around the railway station has higher land use potential (and an hotel therefore cannot form part of that development) but an alternative location can be found elsewhere, the Plan should not prevent it. Whether the hotel specifically forms part of the mixed use development around the Railway Station is not important in our view; what does matter is that provision be made for an hotel in a location which will serve the whole of the Cambridge Northern Fringe East and the wider area.