Comment

Representation ID: 55750

Received: 05/10/2020

Respondent: Brookgate

Agent: Bidwells

Neutral:
This Policy states that planning applications for major development within the North
East Area Action Plan area will be supported subject to a number of criteria. This
includes, inter alia, demonstrating the development will make an appropriate and
proportionate contribution to site wide infrastructure and be supported by a
comprehensive masterplan that accords with the overarching AAP Spatial
Framework and other AAP policies, including, where appropriate:
i. The ability to connect and contribute to Area Action Plan-wide utilities and
communications grids; and
ii. The setting aside of land for strategic and site-specific infrastructure provision.
Representations in respect of the setting aside of land for CAM are provided in
response to Question 2 and Policy 19.
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).
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 forward Land at Cambridge North 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.