Comment

Representation ID: 58805

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Redrow Homes Ltd

Agent: Savills

‘The Buffer’: the 10% buffer proposed is not sufficient and additional sites should be allocated across the Greater Cambridge area to provide sufficient flexibility. Further work will be necessary to identify the size of an increased buffer but Savills would suggest that this be at least 15%.

‘The 5-Year Housing Land Supply’: Whilst the Councils have been nominally able to show that they will be able to demonstrate a 5YHLS on adoption of the Plan, this projection is prone to challenge and is not robust.

‘Development Strategy / Spatial Distribution’: The quantum of housing allocated to the rural area is 'paltry' and insufficient to enable existing communities to 'thrive' and/or 'grow. The approach taken to the distribution of development is not supported by robust evidence, and is an approach that conflicts with that taken to employment growth. Two options for a solution would be to either increase the housing requirement by 1,900 to 4,700 homes, and/or not include the 'additional' / 'faster' delivery of between 1,500 and 2,500 new homes on the edge of Cambridge / at new settlements and to instead accommodate these homes on sustainable sites in sustainable locations within the rural area.