Draft Policy S/JH clearly underestimates and fails to meet the need for employment floorspace, particularly Class B8 logistics floorspace in Greater Cambridge. This does not reflect national planning policy guidance set out in Paragraph 83 of the NPPF that calls for planning policies to recognise and address the specific locational requirements of different sectors, including storage and distribution operations at a variety of scales and in suitably accessible locations. Please see the detailed representations document which is submitted separately for further detail and background to these comments.

Changes Requested:
• The evidence base supporting the draft Local Plan is updated to reflect recent market and economic trends, particularly in terms of e-commerce and the impact this has had on demand for logistics floorspace.
• The scale of employment development envisaged within the evidence base and emerging Local Plan is significantly increased to align with economic trends and to take into account the wider ambitions for the region and the vision for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.
• The Brickyard Farm site is allocated to assist in meeting the employment needs of Greater Cambridge.
• Ensuring policy sets the assessed land requirement as a minimum rather than a ceiling on employment-generating development in Greater Cambridge.
• The proposed Policy restriction on large scale regional and national warehousing and distribution within the area in draft Policy J/NE be removed to align with national planning policy guidance.