We agree that no further growth in Cambourne or the surrounding area should not be considered appropriate by the Councils’ until there is certainty that the Oxford-Cambridge route will be going ahead and will include a station at Cambourne. Also, we note that the GCP C2C busway project is still ongoing, with slow progress. Accounting for any additional housing in this area over the next plan period seems an unsustainable choice until these projects are actually committed. We note from the GCP website that the partnership “recognises that housing developments in Cambourne West and Bourn Airfield require the C2C project to be opened by 2025 to provide reliable public transport services, otherwise that planned growth will be put at risk.”
The First Proposals document states that 1,950 additional homes are being accounted for within the plan period and we assume these are based on the West Cambourne planning permission and therefore should be considered as an existing commitment rather than a new allocation and this requires amending within the document. Additionally, we note that no plan of this area of Cambourne where the identified 1,950 additional homes was included within the First Proposals Document.