4.3.13 Car Parking

Object

Representation ID: 31039

Received: 21/07/2016

Respondent: Cambridge Association of Architects

This is the place to highlight the council's promotion of a modal shift. Currently the scheme allows car park, but due to location, single entrance, narrow street pattern and mix of pedestrian and cycle movement, the car park allows prioritisation of cars.
A maximum standard should be set for this site as early as possible (rather than rely on policies) to avoid creeping vehicular movement to appease developers and house prices, on the account of alternative means of transport.

Object

Representation ID: 31105

Received: 03/07/2016

Respondent: Ms Gaile Walker

Insufficient consideration seems to have been given to the adverse impact this will on the Ainsworth St / Hooper St / Sturton St area. Notice has not been taken of the parking problems we have consistently spoken about at the depot-development area end of Sturton Street including:

Inadequate provision for parking - one parking space for either a two or three bedroomed property is not enough. If they are unable to park on the development then will park in nearby streets. Residents in this part of Sturton Street need a 24/7 resident's parking scheme to ensure have parking spaces.

Object

Representation ID: 31162

Received: 03/06/2016

Respondent: Dr Roger Sewell

Providing "low" car-parking, which is insufficient for the parking requirements of residents, leads to conflict, bad parking, and increased trouble for everybody in surrounding areas. It does nothing to reduce car ownership or use. Other developments which have done this have caused problems both to themselves and to their neighbouring areas. Parking provision should be sufficient for the anticipated needs of those who will live in the development, rather than levels
which only meet the level of car ownership which the council aspires to people having.

Object

Representation ID: 31190

Received: 22/07/2016

Respondent: Cambridge GRT Solidarity Network

"Car-free" site? For housing on the site to be in character with the Mill Road conservation area, it will need to be of small units; generally these are sought by young couples and families. If the site is not to be a car-free one, there is little to prevent householders from having two cars to negotiate their needs in and around Cambridge. So undermining much of the report.

These issues have to be resolved now. The Depot site meets the criteria for a car-free development set out in the draft Cambridge Local Plan Policy 82 and is supported by text in para 9.29 of the draft Local Plan. On this site the joint involvement of the City and County Councils as landowners and planning and highway authorities provides an ideal basis for developing an exemplary solution. On this particular site, a car-free or car-capped development may be the only way of resolving the major site access challenges.