Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 58635
Received: 13/12/2021
Respondent: Abbey Properties Cambridgeshire Limited
The development strategy does not support sufficient new homes and development within the rural village locations.
The same points mentioned within the vision and aims comments are relevant again – the need to have jobs, services and facilities near to where people live is, as the plan progresses, likely to be less important given the increased propensity to work from home (which the draft plan advocates under policy J/RW) coupled with the replacement of diesel and petrol cars. In light of this it appears reasonable to allow further development in the rural areas where families are more likely to want to live and where access to leisure and the countryside is readily available. Locations such as Girton, Over and Bassingbourn which benefit from access to nearby locations including (respectively) Cambridge, St Ives and Royston should be capable of accommodating new development in locations adjacent to the existing settlement boundary.