Draft Cambridge Biomedical Campus Supplementary Planning Document

Comment

Representation ID: 200712

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4a.2.2 (p31) We note the relationship between these increasingly valuable areas of habitat including that offered by the areas of planting along the Addenbrooke’s Road bridge embankment. Please see references at point 4. above.

Comment

Representation ID: 200713

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

As indicated above, this section should include mention of Nine Wells, Hobson’s Brook and the Gog Magogs, and should include wording more compelling and onerous than ‘seek opportunities to…’. (4a.3.1) The importance of views into, across and over the Campus and hospital site must receive greater emphasis.

In this context the materials to be used for cladding the new Multi Storey Car Park next to the Abcam Building offer an example of imaginative engagement with the geology of Nine Wells. This is in stark contrast with what we see when looking at other nearby multi-storey car parks (AZ and Car Park 2).

Comment

Representation ID: 200714

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4c.2 (p34) We believe that this section should reinforce the need to limit the height of buildings on the Campus.

Comment

Representation ID: 200715

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4d.2.2 (p36) It is very odd that the wording seems to suggest that Cambridge South station is a possibility when in fact it will soon be a reality, open for passengers. East West Rail services may be seen as potentially of future importance, but are not mentioned.

Comment

Representation ID: 200716

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4e.1.4 (p36) We believe that some reference should be made here to water quality concerns, including where, as in the case of the new Cancer Hospital, it is likely that some rainwater will need to be stored before being sent out into the wider drainage assets in order to keep to site-wide maxima, but so creating the possibility of low oxygenation and higher water temperatures in pulses of water sent out from storage in tanks in the new buildings. Reference could be made to the Trust’s legal requirements in relation to new buildings and surface water flows.

Comment

Representation ID: 200717

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4.22 (p37) Reference should be made to the Trust’s legal requirements in relation to new buildings and surface water flows.

Comment

Representation ID: 200718

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

4e.3.2 (p38) A reference to protecting Nine Wells Local Nature Reserve should also be included here alongside Hobson’s Brook.

Comment

Representation ID: 200719

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

Please note that the Trustees strenuously object to the current CSET busway proposals which will cause damage to Nine Wells and Hobson’s Brook especially in the context of the proposed CSET Construction Compound 7 right next to Nine Wells, and the massive motorway-style CSET bridge over Hobson’s Brook. This transport scheme is portrayed uncritically in the SPD as offering various benefits, and we contend that it will not offer these, and not as they are set out in the SPD. We favour the alternative A1307 on-road route, which would much better serve the whole hospital and CBC site than CSET, and would avoid Nine Wells and the Brook completely. We note that it is most likely that a Public Inquiry will take place into the draft CSET TWAO later in 2025.

Comment

Representation ID: 200720

Received: 24/01/2025

Respondent: Hobson's Conduit Trust

We note that the recent CBC Vision 2050 document, which is inexplicably not mentioned in the SPD, and which is clearly a relevant complementary CBC statement of intent, waits until the foot of page 37 to include the following paragraph.

This, in the context of the CBC 2050 Vision, is clearly wholly inadequate, and we therefore look to the CBC SPD to play its part in obliging all those who seek to benefit from opportunities represented by the future growth of the Biomedical Campus to embrace those matters whose prioritisation the Trustees regard as the sine qua non of further CBC development. As outlined above we want these aspects to be accorded a much higher and more appropriate priority.