Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 56493
Received: 08/11/2021
Respondent: Mr David & Brian Searle
Agent: Brown & Co Barfords
The Greater Cambridge Local Plan map shows some of the Land at 20 Bourn Road, Caxton (site ref: 40453) at the southern end as part of the existing green infrastructure network although this part of the site is a small grassed field in private ownership. Both the Land at 20 Bourn Road, Caxton (site ref: 40453) and Land south of Bourn Road, Caxton (site ref: 52991) are shown as being within the proposed Western Gateway Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Corridor (8). Paragraph 175 of the NPPF 2021 reinforces a strategic approach to maintaining and enhancing green infrastructure and paragraph 186 of the NPPF 2021 sets out this should be done at the plan making stage which we agree with. However the Western Gateway Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Corridor covers a large area of land and it is considered this corridor should just be focused on the large strategic developments at Cambourne and Bourn Airfield as the purposes of the policy should be strategic in nature and is therefore unreasonable to cover the whole of Caxton.
The Greater Cambridge Local Plan map shows some of the Land at 20 Bourn Road, Caxton (site ref: 40453) at the southern end as part of the existing green infrastructure network although this part of the site is a small grassed field in private ownership. Both the Land at 20 Bourn Road, Caxton (site ref: 40453) and Land south of Bourn Road, Caxton (site ref: 52991) are shown as being within the proposed Western Gateway Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Corridor (8). Paragraph 175 of the NPPF 2021 reinforces a strategic approach to maintaining and enhancing green infrastructure and paragraph 186 of the NPPF 2021 sets out this should be done at the plan making stage which we agree with. However the Western Gateway Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Corridor covers a large area of land and it is considered this corridor should just be focused on the large strategic developments at Cambourne and Bourn Airfield as the purposes of the policy should be strategic in nature and is therefore unreasonable to cover the whole of Caxton.