Comment

Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

Representation ID: 56520

Received: 16/11/2021

Respondent: R J & J S Millard

Agent: Brown & Co Barfords

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The Greater Cambridge Local Plan map shows some of the Land off Brockholt Road, Caxton (site ref: 40254) as part of the existing green infrastructure network although this part of the site is a grassed field in private ownership. This land is also 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 either 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.