Draft Cambridge Biomedical Campus Supplementary Planning Document

Comment

Representation ID: 200264

Received: 23/01/2025

Respondent: Historic England

We broadly welcome the development principles in Chapter 4 and we make a number of suggestions below to strengthen those principles and provide greater reference to the historic environment.
We advise that the conservation and archaeological staff of the Council are involved
in the preparation of the SPD and its assessment.
4a.1 We recommend that this section should mention the overlap between the
natural and historic environment. A particular example next to the CBC would be the area of Nine wells. We recommend that the SPD makes clearer recommendations for enhancement measures in this area immediately to the south of the campus to enhance open space, landscape and the historic environment.
4a.3 We recommend that this section of the SPD should include more specific
requirements for landscaping and softening along the southern edge of the Campus
and the wider landscape.
We recommend that this section of the SPD should provide clearer
recommendations for the mitigation of impacts CBC on longer range views into the City such as from Little Trees Hill and Wandlebury.
4b.1 we recommend that some text is added to the SPD to highlight the
potential for positive impacts of heritage in relation to health and wellbeing.
4b.2 We recommend that some text should be added to the SPD to capture the advice
within Streets for All to improve public spaces without harming their valued
character
4b.3 Historic England supports the promotion cultural facilities.
4c.2 We recommend that paragraph 4c.2.1 of the SPD should be strengthened to make
reference to the sensitive city edge, the need for a contextual approach and also set
out what considerations will be needed for proposals in terms of visualisations and
parameters for development in terms of scale, mass and height.
We recommend that additional pointers should also be given to appropriate materials
and finishes across the campus in the SPD.
4c.3 We welcome the inclusion of this section but it is currently very short. Opportunities for mitigation and enhancement around Nine Wells grade II listed monument and also the wider setting of the scheduled monument to the south of the campus, as well as the wider views of the townscape from the elevated land to the south of the City could be referenced in this section.
4d.2 We recommend that the SPD should recognise and seek to address the potential
pinch point for EWR, CSET, DNA cycle path as well as the potential cumulative
impacts of all these proposals on the scheduled monument in the area around the
Addenbrookes Road bridge in the wider planning for the CBC.
4e.1 Historic England broadly welcomes the measures set out in the Strategy. We particularly refer you to our recent advice note Adapting Historic Buildings for
Energy and Carbon Efficiency and recommend including this link within this section.