Question 41a

Due to the constant changes in Building Regulations requirements and with regards to sustainability standards targets are unrealistic at such an early stage of policy formation. The relevant Building Regulations standards will be imposed at the point of delivery on the ground.

Savills Planning Team in Cambridge are instructed on behalf of St John's College, Cambridge to submit responses to the Issues and Options Report on the CNFE having regard to the College's landholdings and land interests at St John's Innovation Park west of Cowley Road and east of Milton Road.

Option A relates to sustainable design and construction and floodrisk at the CNFE. The option suggests that there should be a reliance on Local Plan policies related to climate change and sustainable design and construction. We support such an approach in as much that it should be the Development Plan policies that guide development across the whole of the District. To artificially create a separate policy regime (and a more onerous one at that) in relation to Option B is entirely inappropriate. This is particularly the case where there could be significant costs involved in meeting any of the options put forward within this Plan and the imposition of more stringent policy guidance simply because of a Plan that is now being put forward is entirely unreasonable.

Consequently it is our view that there should be no "special treatment" of sites that fall within the CNFE and in the instance where more onerous policies apply as any legal obligations then the College strongly objects to being included within such a plan area.

41.1 Option A relates to sustainable design and construction and floodrisk at the CNFE. It suggests that reliance be placed on Local Plan policies relating to climate change and sustainable design and construction. We support such an approach because Development Plan policies should guide development across the whole of the District. Creating a separate, more onerous policy regime compared is entirely inappropriate. This is particularly true if significant costs are involved in complying with more stringent policy guidance in the AAP

41.2 In our view, there should be no "special treatment" of sites within the CNFE; and if more onerous policies apply as legal obligations, then we object strongly to the St John's Innovation Park being included within the plan area.

We would be content to rely on Local Plan policies related to climate change and sustainable design and construction.

Development should not be more expensive than elsewhere in the City. Should comply with policy which complies with NPPF or other national standards.

No additional comment

I support Option B