The National Trust does not object to the development of this brownfield site providing appropriate green infrastructure can be delivered. This site provides opportunities to connect to the Wicken Fen Vision Area and create green infrastructure which would deliver on the high level ambitions of the Greater Cambridge Local Plan.

Outside the Local Plan area in East Cambridgeshire, the Trust owns and manages some 250 ha of land at Wicken Fen, a National Nature Reserve and designated SSSI, and an internationally designated SAC and Ramsar. At its closest point the Reserve is located approximately 4km to the east of the boundary between the two local authority areas, however the Trust’s plans for the Wicken Fen Vision Area would extend the area of land managed for nature conservation southwards to within 2km of the Greater Cambridge boundary. The Trust’s long term management strategy for the Vision Area extends across an area of approximately 5,300 ha and aims to alleviate the growing pressure on vulnerable habitats within the designated site, and to better protect areas at risk from the effects of trampling, recreational pressure and other harmful activities.