Comment

Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

Representation ID: 56502

Received: 10/11/2021

Respondent: Mr William Grain

Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

Representation Summary:

The Greater Cambridge Local Plan map shows the land 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.

Full text:

The Greater Cambridge Local Plan map shows the land 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.