Policy 23: Comprehensive and Coordinated Development
Object
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 53433
Received: 03/10/2020
Respondent: Fen Ditton Village Society
inappropriate post- Brexit and during pandemic
inappropriate post- Brexit and during pandemic
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 54450
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Orchard Street Investment Management
Agent: Turley
With regard to criterion (f) of the policy, early engagement with key stakeholders is fundamental to the delivery of a successful scheme in a timely manner. It is acknowledged that there have been Stakeholder Design Workshops undertaken and the outcome of these is included in the Council’s evidence base. However, not all affected landowners were included, particularly those related to the industrial use element of the site. Additional information should be set out in the Area Action Plan as to how this should be undertaken, with a specific requirement for discussions to be undertaken with all affected landowners prior to any proposals being drawn up and brought forward.
With regard to criterion (f) of the policy, early engagement with key stakeholders is fundamental to the delivery of a successful scheme in a timely manner. It is acknowledged that there have been Stakeholder Design Workshops undertaken and the outcome of these is included in the Council’s evidence base. However, not all affected landowners were included, particularly those related to the industrial use element of the site. Additional information should be set out in the Area Action Plan as to how this should be undertaken, with a specific requirement for discussions to be undertaken with all affected landowners prior to any proposals being drawn up and brought forward.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 54528
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Cambridge Cycling Campaign
In order to achieve a process of comprehensive and coordinated development across the site, we support Cambridge Past, Present and Future’s recommendation to establish a Special Purpose Vehicle such as a locally-controlled Development Corporation to ensure that the vision for the area can be properly realised.
Any new or changed designs for junctions should be subject to public consultation.
It is essential that access is maintained for people walking and cycling throughout all periods of construction and that where diversions are necessary, these are convenient, adequately signed and accessible for people of all ages and abilities to navigate by cycle or on foot. Where necessary to achieve this, roadspace should be temporarily re-allocated from motor vehicles and additional diversions implemented for motor vehicles to enable this. It is especially important on key routes such as the busway cycleway.
In order to achieve a process of comprehensive and coordinated development across the site, we support Cambridge Past, Present and Future’s recommendation to establish a Special Purpose Vehicle such as a locally-controlled Development Corporation to ensure that the vision for the area can be properly realised.
Any new or changed designs for junctions should be subject to public consultation.
It is essential that access is maintained for people walking and cycling throughout all periods of construction and that where diversions are necessary, these are convenient, adequately signed and accessible for people of all ages and abilities to navigate by cycle or on foot. Where necessary to achieve this, roadspace should be temporarily re-allocated from motor vehicles and additional diversions implemented for motor vehicles to enable this. It is especially important on key routes such as the busway cycleway.
Object
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 54599
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Dencora Trinity LLP
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 b (Object) The policy should be more flexibility worded to acknowledge that some parcels coming forward will be modest in scale and/ or in a peripheral location and therefore do not warrant or justify a comprehensive masterplan. The level of detail/extent required for the masterplan should be commensurate to the scale and nature of the application submission.
Policy 23 b (Object) The policy should be more flexibility worded to acknowledge that some parcels coming forward will be modest in scale and/ or in a peripheral location and therefore do not warrant or justify a comprehensive masterplan. The level of detail/extent required for the masterplan should be commensurate to the scale and nature of the application submission.
Object
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55469
Received: 27/09/2020
Respondent: Mr Matthew Asplin
The issues raised in earlier consultations, including those on page 228, such as those raised by
the Environment Agency, do not appear to have been addressed.
By disassociating the proposal to relocate the Treatment works, this does not appear to represent
comprehensive and co-ordinated development.
The draft plan should provide a holistic integrated view of the proposed development
Object
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55697
Received: 02/10/2020
Respondent: St John's College
Agent: Savills
It is important, as required by the Local Plans, that planning applications submitted before the adoption of the AAP can be considered on their own merits and subject to ensuring that they would not prejudice the outcome of the AAP process and the achievement of the comprehensive vision for the area as a whole that will be established by the AAP. This is important to ensure that the benefits of development that would not prejudice the outcome can be delivered without delay.
The requirement for a masterplan to support applications is understood, but the policy as currently worded does not make it clear what area a masterplan is expected to cover.
c. i. as currently worded requires proposals to be landscape-led with respect to layout and access. Landscape is a key component in creating great places and should be a key driver in determining layout and access, but layout and access should not necessarily be landscape-led.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55750
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Brookgate
Agent: Bidwells
Neutral:
This Policy states that planning applications for major development within the North
East Area Action Plan area will be supported subject to a number of criteria. This
includes, inter alia, demonstrating the development will make an appropriate and
proportionate contribution to site wide infrastructure and be supported by a
comprehensive masterplan that accords with the overarching AAP Spatial
Framework and other AAP policies, including, where appropriate:
i. The ability to connect and contribute to Area Action Plan-wide utilities and
communications grids; and
ii. The setting aside of land for strategic and site-specific infrastructure provision.
Representations in respect of the setting aside of land for CAM are provided in
response to Question 2 and Policy 19.
It also needs to be recognised that the adopted plans of South Cambridgeshire
District Council and Cambridge City Council make it clear that planning applications
are capable of being submitted and granted planning permission in advance of the
AAP being adopted (South Cambridgeshire Local Plan Policy SS/4 and Cambridge
City Local Plan Policy 15).
The approach in the recently adopted local plan in respect of early submissions
should not be watered down through the AAP process, indeed, through the AAP
process the opportunity to bring forward Land at Cambridge North early should be
explicitly acknowledged as beneficial to the regeneration of the area, creating a
sense of place and arrival around the new Station and evidencing in commercial
terms how the low parking ratios might work.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55850
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Veolia and Turnstone Estates
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and
regeneration at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported. Policy 23 requires
applications for major development to successfully integrate with the surrounding area and to
successfully mitigate environmental constraints – see criteria c(ii) and c(vii). It is anticipated that
the land currently occupied by the Veolia waste recycling facility would be redeveloped for
business (B1) and housing with the adjacent land redeveloped for business and town centre uses
and housing. The proposed buildings on the site would be up to a maximum of 8 storeys, and on
the neighbouring land the buildings would be up to a maximum of 13 storeys high. However, it is
expected that the existing waste recycling transfer facility would continue to operate for a
temporary period or indefinitely if a suitable alternative relocation site is not identified. Therefore,
an appropriate phasing of redevelopment sites must be provided to ensure that proposed uses
are compatible with existing business operations on adjacent sites and in close proximity,
including for the existing waste recycling transfer facility off Cowley Road, in order to avoid
potential noise and residential impacts. However, as outlined above the existing Veolia operation
will only relocate if they can make the land viable.
Support
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55912
Received: 02/10/2020
Respondent: GCR Camprop Nine Ltd
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and regeneration
at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported. Policy 23 requires applications for major
development to successfully integrate with the surrounding area and to successfully mitigate
environmental constraints. There is a single development strategy for Cambridge Science Park i.e.
intensification of existing employment floorspace, redevelopment of under-utilised buildings and
car parks, reduction of car parking, and building heights of 4 to 5 storeys. The proposed
redevelopment of the building at 127 – 136 Cambridge Science Park would be consistent with the
development strategy for this area, and as such could be integrated with any future redevelopment
of neighbouring buildings.
Policy 23b as drafted seeks to require all major development proposals to be supported by a
comprehensive masterplan. This is an appropriate requirement for largescale major development
proposals which might relate to a significant element of the North East Cambridge Area overall.
However, smaller scale major development proposals at the individual plot level on the Science Park
in particular (which may for example comprise the provision of a single building) are unlikely to
be sufficiently large enough so as to warrant a masterplan approach. Such development proposals
remain capable of a proportionate contribution to the achievement of the vision and strategic
objectives for North East Cambridge, however.
The proposed policy should be worded to reflect such circumstances.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55933
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Ridgeons Timber & Builders Merchants and Turnstone Estates
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and
regeneration at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported. Policy 23 requires applications
for major development to successfully integrate with the surrounding area and to successfully
mitigate environmental constraints – see criteria c(ii) and c(vii). Nuffield Road Industrial Estate
is proposed to be redeveloped for residential use in the AAP; comprising 4 to 5 storeys and a
maximum of 6 storeys. However, it is expected that the existing builders merchant operations at the
Ridgeons site would continue and therefore existing activities associated with the existing use
need to be considered. Therefore, the parameters for residential development at the Nuffield Road
Industrial Estate site should be defined and adjusted to ensure that those uses are integrated and
compatible with the existing builders merchant operations at the Ridgeons site, particularly in terms of potential noise and residential impacts.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55958
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Natural England
Natural England supports this policy and requirement for development to demonstrate an
appropriate and proportionate contribution to site wide infrastructure including open space.
However, please note our comments above regarding the need for a AAP GI / Biodiversity
expansion and enhancement framework.
The requirement for a masterplan should be to demonstrate how the proposal accords with
GI/Biodiversity Framework and responds to the impacts of climate change, delivers biodiversity net
gain and mitigates environmental constraints.
Support
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 55982
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Hawkswren Ltd
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and
regeneration at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported.
Object
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 56003
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: Turnstone Estates Limited
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and
regeneration at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 56097
Received: 02/10/2020
Respondent: South Cambridgeshire District Council
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and regeneration
at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported. The policy appears to be written more for some
of the larger landowners, such as Anglian Water/Cambridge City Council, Brookgate/Network Rail, The
Crown Estate and Trinity College. Where individual plots become available, such as in the case of
the Landowner/Site, it will be more difficult to show how it complies in the context of part b) of
the policy (wider masterplanning). Consideration should be given to this in the policy.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 56114
Received: 02/10/2020
Respondent: South Cambridgeshire District Council
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and regeneration
at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported. The policy appears to be written more for some
of the larger landowners, such as Anglian Water/Cambridge City Council, Brookgate/Network Rail, The
Crown Estate and Trinity College. Where individual plots become available, such as in the case of
the Landowner/Site, it will be more difficult to show how it complies in the context of part b) of
the policy (wider masterplanning). Consideration should be given to this in the policy.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 56129
Received: 02/10/2020
Respondent: South Cambridgeshire District Council
Agent: Carter Jonas
Policy 23 seeks to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to development and regeneration
at North East Cambridge, which is broadly supported. The policy appears to be written more for some
of the larger landowners, such as Anglian Water/Cambridge City Council, Brookgate/Network Rail, The
Crown Estate and Trinity College. Where individual plots become available, such as in the case of
the Landowner/Site, it will be more difficult to show how it complies in the context of part b) of
the policy (wider masterplanning). Consideration should be given to this in the policy.
Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 56157
Received: 05/10/2020
Respondent: U+I PLC.
Agent: We are Town
Policy generally supported but note comments on infrastructure delivery plan and ensuring all NEC developments
contribute proportionately under policy 27 below.