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Representation ID: 31190

Received: 22/07/2016

Respondent: Cambridge GRT Solidarity Network

"Car-free" site? For housing on the site to be in character with the Mill Road conservation area, it will need to be of small units; generally these are sought by young couples and families. If the site is not to be a car-free one, there is little to prevent householders from having two cars to negotiate their needs in and around Cambridge. So undermining much of the report.

These issues have to be resolved now. The Depot site meets the criteria for a car-free development set out in the draft Cambridge Local Plan Policy 82 and is supported by text in para 9.29 of the draft Local Plan. On this site the joint involvement of the City and County Councils as landowners and planning and highway authorities provides an ideal basis for developing an exemplary solution. On this particular site, a car-free or car-capped development may be the only way of resolving the major site access challenges.