Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 57489
Received: 10/12/2021
Respondent: ESFA (Department for Education)
We welcome the proposed policy direction that specialist education facilities will be supported where they make efficient use of land, facilitate active travel, reduce car parking and introduce active frontages at ground floor level.
We recommend that the supporting text with this policy makes a distinction between privately operated and state-funded education, in view of the bearing this can have on changes of use under permitted development rights. The department makes use of permitted development rights when appropriate, but also welcomes the opportunity to work with local planning authorities on comprehensive plans for regeneration and successful place-making, including sustainable transport planning and innovative design. New school buildings will be net zero carbon in operation, as set out in OS21 and referenced elsewhere in this consultation response.
We welcome the proposed policy direction that specialist education facilities will be supported where they make efficient use of land, facilitate active travel, reduce car parking and introduce active frontages at ground floor level.
We recommend that the supporting text with this policy makes a distinction between privately operated and state-funded education, in view of the bearing this can have on changes of use under permitted development rights. The department makes use of permitted development rights when appropriate, but also welcomes the opportunity to work with local planning authorities on comprehensive plans for regeneration and successful place-making, including sustainable transport planning and innovative design. New school buildings will be net zero carbon in operation, as set out in OS21 and referenced elsewhere in this consultation response.