Comment

Representation ID: 55726

Received: 05/10/2020

Respondent: Brookgate

Agent: Bidwells

Neutral:
Brookgate broadly support the aims of Policy 1, the Spatial Framework and Land
Use Plan. However, as referred to under Section 1 of these representations, the
supporting diagrams as currently drafted are too precise. They should instead be
clearly marked as indicative.
Both the Spatial Framework and Land Use Plan also need to recognise the
potential for an educational facility within the Cambridge North site, a 16-19 offer in
the form of specialist Maths School. This is capable of coming forwards separately
to the proposed primary school sites and the potential safeguarded land for a
secondary school.
It also needs to be recognised that the adopted plans of South Cambridgeshire
District Council and Cambridge City Council make it clear that planning applications
are capable of being submitted and granted planning permission in advance of the
AAP being adopted (South Cambridgeshire Local Plan Policy SS/4 and Cambridge
City Local Plan Policy 15). Under both policies, the Cambridge North Site is
allocated for high quality mixed-use development, primarily for employment uses
such as B1, B2 and B8, as well as a range of supporting commercial, retail, leisure
and residential uses (subject to acceptable environmental conditions).
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The approach in the recently adopted local plan in respect of early submissions
should not be watered down through the AAP process, indeed, through the AAP
process the opportunity to bring Brookgate land forward early should be explicitly
acknowledged as beneficial to the regeneration of the area, creating a sense of
place and arrival around the new Station and evidencing in commercial terms how
the low parking ratios might work.