Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 59048
Received: 13/12/2021
Respondent: Emmanuel College
Agent: Bidwells
Emmanuel College Sports Ground, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge (HELAA site 40380)
The College support including allocations within Cambridge City that can be well-located to bus routes, cycle paths, pedestrian paths, jobs, services and facilities, but objects to only one such modest new allocation. It results in a reliance on too few sites to deliver the significant majority of the Local Plan housing need. To re-risk a failure to deliver the housing requirement or a rolling five-year housing supply, it needs to allocate more smaller-sustainable sites; to add resilience to the housing supply by introducing more sites that can come forward at different stages in the housing market and economic cycles.
The College support including allocations within Cambridge City that can be well-located to bus routes, cycle paths, pedestrian paths, jobs, services and facilities, but objects to only one such modest new allocation. It results in a reliance on too few sites to deliver the significant majority of the Local Plan housing need. To re-risk a failure to deliver the housing requirement or a rolling five-year housing supply, it needs to allocate more smaller-sustainable sites; to add resilience to the housing supply by introducing more sites that can come forward at different stages in the housing market and economic cycles.