Object

North East Cambridge Area Action Plan Issues and Options 2019

Representation ID: 32827

Received: 24/03/2019

Respondent: Jeremy Bickerstaffe

Representation Summary:

The area between the railway and river needs to be included as well.

Full text:

I feel very strongly that this boundary is the wrong one for the area. The housing and industrial area between the railway line and river must also be included within the planning for North East Cambridge.

Reasons why this area needs to be included:

- This is a neglected area which is cut off from local facilities and only accessible by long car journeys across a busy level crossing. We need to take the opportunity to make the place making benefits of the North East development available to the people who are already live next door to it rather than leaving the benefits of economic development only to the people who can afford to live in the new houses.

- One element of the plan is consulting and listening to local communities: they are one of the local communities and appear to have been completely ignored by proposed boundary of the plan.

- We can decrease the distance people to the East of the railway need to travel for working, shopping and leisure activities by providing a bridge across the railway line.

- It doesn't make sense to think about providing new cycle and pedestrian routes to the river without including the land through which they would have to pass as part of the planning.

- The increasingly popular cycling route between from Cambridge North station into the city along Fen Road is currently severely compromised by the traffic along Fen Road. Large industrial vehicles and unsafe driving threaten this cycle route and make it dangerous. This needs to be addressed to serve the sustainable transport goals of the plan.