The housing and mixed-use allocations that are being proposed to be carried forward from the Cambridge Local Plan 2018 and the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2018 should be reviewed and not automatically carried forward through this emerging plan. Where site allocations have been granted consent since the Local Plans were adopted, these allocations should not be repeated and instead the sites integrated within the urban area. On such occasions the emerging plan should seek to add to the allocations proposed and replace those sites from the 2018 Plans that have been delivered/ implemented.
Where these past allocations have not been progressed and delivery is therefore not certain, the opportunity should be taken to review their deliverability and viability to ensure the supply of sites is reliable and delivery sustained throughout the plan period. As such, the Local Planning Authority should not be reliant on these sites within their housing supply figures until their delivery can be confirmed. Claremont Planning recommends that the urban sites be supplemented by a mix of small to medium scale development opportunities within the surrounding larger settlements and villages to ensure that the provision of housing is not reliant on a single form of provision.
In order to maintain housing delivery the strategy should be widened to actively address the whole of the plan area. Claremont advises that the most robust approach to address this shortcoming would be to allow for growth of existing rural settlements.