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Great to have new facilities. Avoid fast food outlets and charity shops as these are already well catered for on the High Street.
A cafe, pub or restaurant is what is really needed - somewhere that people can meet socially, perhaps similar to what the Fulbourn Centre has (?)

Cherry Hinton High Street's 'offer' is not particularly compelling as it is so I think competition might be helpful. It would be good to see some higher quality cafes, restaurants and/or local shops. What should be definitely be avoided is further charity shops and (in particular) betting shops.

We support community facilities that form bridges between existing and the new community so that it comes to think of itself as an extensive of Cherry Hinton Village. We urge planners to consider what kind of facilities might achieve this purpose. We are happy to serve as a 'link organisation' since geographically St Andrew's is at the border of the two communities, and historically, this church has knit together the community, and has a track record of almost 1000 years in creating and caring for this place.

I am writing to outline my concerns regarding the proposed development of the land north of Cherry Hinton.
1) Traffic- please would you consider the impact on the traffic by introducing the new development and maybe consider additional or alternate access roads to the development. At peak times and with trains already causing long traffic queues, currently the proposed access roads will only add to this causing major congestion. I understand cycle routes are planned, but I fear they will not be fully utilised thus causing traffic issues.

2) School- I am concerned that if the school is built and finished before the housing development, many children from Cherry Hinton could be tempted to attend due to it being a new building and inevitably having better resources. Has the impact on the existing schools been considered with regard to this? If the schools have less pupils attending , that means less funding which will hugely impact on the existing children and community of Cherry Hinton. I have also heard that the school (s) could be private school (s) and if this is the case it's unlikely the school will be serving the community of Cherry Hinton as the new development will have a generous proportion of social housing unable to access the school, and thus attracts further traffic from people attending outside of the area.

3) Community Centre- This really needs to be thought through! We have an exciting Village Centre in the heart of Cherry Hinton where residents like myself, who live less then a mile away from it, cannot access the discounted rates it offers for exercise classes, for example, because I live in a different local authority area (South Cambs). This is ridiculous considering I personally, am extremely involved in the Cherry Hinton community by being a childminder, involved in the parish church and vice chair of Bewick Bridge Friends Committee. So will you ensure the new Community Centre is available for all in an equal manner?

4) St Andrew's Parish Church- placed between the existing Cherry Hinton and the planned new development- the church will be key in providing links between the Community and I urge this to be a consideration when planning communal buildings and their purpose. The church will be very valuable in the integration of the existing and proposed development and this needs to be considered going forward.