Object
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55666
Received: 02/10/2020
Respondent: St John's College
Agent: Savills
The draft policy states that “Proposals for non-residential development must achieve 5 BREEAM credits for water use (Wat 01), unless it can be demonstrated that such provision in not technically or economically viable”.
Current applications 20/03523/FUL (South Cambs) and 20/03524/FUL (Cambridge City) for Phase 1 at the St John’s Innovation Park will achieve 4 of the 5. The reason that 5 credits are not being targeted at this stage is due to the limitations of roof area available for rainwater harvesting on building 1 plus the additional sanitaryware fittings that would be included in the transport hub. As such the required flow rates to achieve a 55% reduction could be prohibitive from a performance perspective”.
It is agreed that a more ambitious target than the existing Local Plan target of 2 of the 5 should be included, but to enable balancing of different considerations, 4 out of 5 should be the minimum.