Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation

Comment

Representation ID: 211815

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

20.c - The LCG remain committed to the long term ambition to deliver the east-west link, or High Street, as a public transport and active travel corridor. It is essential that the policy recognises that its delivery is likely to occur at a later stage in the overall development programme. Flexibility must be embedded within the policy wording and should acknowledge the complex dependencies and allow for appropriate interim solutions that enable active travel connectivity to come forward until such time as the eastwest street can be fully delivered. The link should not be relied upon in the short or medium term, and should be described it as an ambition, not a requirement of the masterplan. We will seek to ensure it is excluded
as a requirement for delivery in the Infrastructure Delivery Strategy until there is sufficient clarity over its funding.

Comment

Representation ID: 211816

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 20.e - The trip budget will incentivise the LCG to consolidate deliveries and servicing trips in and out of the Campus so far as is practically possible. The proposed amendments seek to recognise this and give additional flexibility to exactly how that is achieved. This flexibility is needed to both reflect the many uses that will be operating within the Campus but also the rate of technological change that may well provide not-yet anticipated ways of consolidating delivery and servicing trips. From a CUH perspective, sharing logistics may be particularly problematic and therefore this cannot be stipulated as an absolute requirement. We are however committed
to exploring options with our campus partners.

Comment

Representation ID: 211817

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 20.f - The introduction of a modal filter south of Dame Marcher Way is not part of the Transport Strategy that the LCG has formulated to date and indeed could undermine the benefits that the southern access road is intended to deliver, which would make the policy ineffective. Any such modal filter would prejudice the new access’s ability to relieve congestion on the Addenbrooke’s roundabout and Hills Road. It should therefore be sufficient for the policy to set out the ambition
but remain agnostic as to how it is achieved.

Comment

Representation ID: 211818

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 20.g - There is existing car parking that policy cannot compel its users to give up. Patient parking requires particular consideration, as patients will need to be able to park close to where they received treatment. This is an absolute priority for CUH. The additional wording therefore clarifies that the requirement to
consolidate parking should only apply to new or re-provided parking. This proposed amendments also seek to provide flexibility for temporary or surface car parking to be delivered as a ‘meanwhile’ use as has been successfully done at the Campus before. We support the use of innovative techniques to deliver safe and
accessible cycle parking.

Comment

Representation ID: 211819

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 20.h - CUH is supportive of this position. This is critical to safe hospital operations and patient outcomes.

Comment

Representation ID: 211820

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 20.i - Amendments are seeking to make the application more flexible in how any analysis is implemented.

Comment

Representation ID: 211821

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 20.j - CUH is supportive of this position. As noted in paragraph 21, great care is required in setting the Trip Budget, and we maintain a position that it is premature to set the precise trip budget cap at this stage,
particularly in the absence of clarity on the Greater Cambridge Transport Strategy and prior to the preparation of a Transport Assessment to sit alongside any comprehensive development proposals. As the hospital implements new models of care, patient demands for
the hospital may evolve and be driven by the absolute requirements to access healthcare. More work will need to be done as the new models of care are rolled out, and as part of scoping the requirements for a new Acute Hospital on campus.

Comment

Representation ID: 211822

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 20 - The wording has been restructured to clarify that the trip budget figures represent a current position only and will evolve as more detailed evidence becomes available over time, particularly through new planning applications.

Comment

Representation ID: 211823

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 21 - Amendments are proposed to clarify that the trip budget figures represent a current position only and will evolve as more detailed evidence becomes available over time, particularly through new planning applications. Additional wording is proposed to make clear that the trip budget is not intended to be an absolute cap on daily vehicle trip numbers, nor over short and medium periods of time. For the trip budget to be effective it must be sufficiently flexible and capable of responding to changing circumstances. The proposed approach is consistent with the arrangements for Waterbeach, where appropriate controls and review mechanisms
have been secured through the section 106 agreement.

Comment

Representation ID: 211824

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: No. 6 Developments

Paragraph 22 - Additional text is proposed to make clear that it should be through planning applications that the transport mitigation plan is prepared and submitted to local planning authority. It is only at this stage that
there will be the necessary level of detail available to ensure that any such plan can be effective and deliverable. It is also important that the plan is able to take account of committed schemes that may affect the transport strategy.