Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 58966
Received: 13/12/2021
Respondent: Cambridge Past, Present and Future
CambridgePPF support the policy but are concerned that residential car parking standards does not encourage active and public transport.
CambridgePPF support this, however one of the greatest challenges is that house builders still consider that providing space for two cars per household is necessary to maximise sale price/volume. This results in (large) developments being laid out to accommodate those cars through the development, leading to a development form that supports car use. Active and public transport are then fitted around that layout (eg provision of cycle or bus lanes). A sea change in the industry is required to design differently and we would like to see policies that would be strong enough to refuse applications that have not taken active travel and public transport as the starting point for the layout of their schemes.