Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 58004
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Cambridge Doughnut Economics Action Group
Standards for community facilities like this should not be based simply in proportion to the number of residents: there should be lower limits so that smaller developments also meet the limit allocations. This will prevent deliberate piecemeal developments that escape or make a mockery of open space requirements by reducing them to an infeasible size.
Developers should not be permitted to double-count open spaces that are intended to meet two functional and incompatible criteria. Eg. the play area at Nine Wells, Cambridge, is co-located in a rainwater catchment area, the play area is submerged for large portions of the year.
Standards for community facilities like this should not be based simply in proportion to the number of residents: there should be lower limits so that smaller developments also meet the limit allocations. This will prevent deliberate piecemeal developments that escape or make a mockery of open space requirements by reducing them to an infeasible size.
Developers should not be permitted to double-count open spaces that are intended to meet two functional and incompatible criteria. Eg. the play area at Nine Wells, Cambridge, is co-located in a rainwater catchment area, the play area is submerged for large portions of the year.