Comment

Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

Representation ID: 56988

Received: 09/12/2021

Respondent: Trumpington Residents Association

Representation Summary:

The Trumpington Residents' Association supports the policy but stresses the importance of build quality and the inability of the Councils to intervene and enforce planning conditions when developers build sub-standard homes, based on our experience with the developments in the Southern Fringe where the quality has been very poor in many cases.

This draft policy seems focussed on external appearance and not on 'live-ability'. A nice-looking roof line is one thing, a properly installed roof is quite another.

Full text:

The Trumpington Residents' Association supports the policy but stresses the importance of build quality and the inability of the Councils to intervene and enforce planning conditions when developers build sub-standard homes, based on our experience with the developments in the Southern Fringe where the quality has been very poor in many cases.

This draft policy seems focussed on external appearance and not on 'live-ability'. A nice-looking roof line is one thing, a properly installed roof is quite another.