Comment

Representation ID: 59537

Received: 08/12/2021

Respondent: Gonville & Caius College

Agent: Bidwells

The Lawns, Cambridge (HELAA site 40425)

Ensure that the wording of any Protected Open Space policy allows for an assessment on the basis of need for the site/its use against which a planning application can be assessed. The wording of any such policy should not be unduly restrictive as with existing Policy 67 of the adopted Local Plan, but should reflect the wording of NPPF paragraph 99 and allow for a series qualitative criteria, in order to allow an appropriate assessment to the merits of each individual case.

Site 40425 has no recreational attribute to be protected
and it would be appropriate for the Council to review the designation and withdraw that status.