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Development strategy
Representation ID: 202913
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Of the 13,463 required, 12,550 (or 93%) is made up on the five sites above. There is thus significant reliance upon these sites delivering on time in order to meet the proposed delivery. Larger sites typically have greater infrastructure requirements. This is unlike Bar Hill which as an extension to an existing settlement can be delivered more expediently. The delivery of significant development at a village location can also help in providing the critical mass that is needed to ensure that they themselves can become more sustainable (as the additional population helps in sustaining and improving the viability of existing services). The allocation of Bar Hill (as an already established location) could help to mitigate the market absorption concerns mentioned previous.
We are of the view that sites such as Bar Hill need to be allocated in the plan to ensure that there is a robust and diverse local housing market which can support the level of housing completions required.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
Policy S/JH: New jobs and homes
Representation ID: 211597
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
We note that the Draft Local Plan includes a significant allocation Land north of A1307, Bar Hill (Slate Hall Farm). This includes approximately 220,000 sqm of employment floorspace. This is located opposite the site. Whilst we do not object to the allocation in principle and understand the strategic drivers for the site to be located where it is, given the Council’s decision to allocate this site for development there is a missed opportunity to allocate housing land for development at Bar Hill to provide homes in close proximity to major centre of employment, therein helping to manage more effective patterns of development sustainably.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
SA
Representation ID: 211598
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
Choices around the spatial distribution of development is relevant to considerations of market absorption. The Cambridge Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) in respect of supporting a more dispersed housing option states that “providing development in the villages (alongside urban extensions and new settlements) will provide a wider choice of housing in the market for people in terms of size and location and will increase the market absorption rate.” We understand that for the purpose of the Council’s assessment Bar Hill is treated as a village.
Paragraph 2.104 of the same document continues to note that “Updated national planning policy should further support windfall brownfield development within existing settlements, and new 2024 NPPF policy support for greater levels of affordable housing in the Green Belt and grey belt and support for mixed tenure housing developments have the potential to improve market absorption rates compared to when the 2021 HDS was published.”
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
Policy S/DS: Development strategy
Representation ID: 211599
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
We are of the view that sites such as Cambridge Bar Hill Hotel Bar Hill (HELAA Reference 59381) need to be allocated in the plan to ensure that there is a robust and diverse local housing market which can support the level of housing completions required.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
Policy S/JH: New jobs and homes
Representation ID: 211600
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
The Draft Local Plan notes that an additional 10,330 homes are required to meet the housing need figure of 48,195 homes (37,865 is made up of committed supply, allocations and permissions).
The Draft Local Plan states that land has been identified within New Sites that totals 13,463 (circa 3,100 over the current shortfall). It is noteworthy that a substantial proportion of the 13,463 is comprised of large strategic allocations. Larger sites typically have greater infrastructure requirements unlike smaller sites that can be delivered more expediently.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
SA
Representation ID: 211601
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
The Sustainability Appraisal at 4.26 notes that “larger developments could result in a lower level of affordable housing provision due to greater costs to deliver additional infrastructure, but this may be offset overall by smaller sites coming forward within the other sources of supply in this option.”
To this end, there is no real acknowledgement in the Sustainability Appraisal as to the role that the Golden Rules (notably the provision of 50% affordable housing) would have as an assessed alternative. Through the Sustainability Appraisal scoring development in the Green Belt is marked as lower scoring as it is not considered as being an “efficient use of land.”
There is a general lack of depth to the way in which the Sustainability Appraisal seeks to grapple with options that would involve development of the Grey Belt. We would question if such an assessment criteria appropriately reflects where national Green Belt policy has moved to, notably Grey Belt. It would be appropriate for the Sustainability Appraisal to distinguish between options that would involve Green Belt vs those that would involve the use of Grey Belt.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
SA
Representation ID: 211602
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
The Sustainability Appraisal seems to “mark down” Green Belt sites on the edge of Cambridge (which we would assume Bar Hill could fall under) as “as applications cannot be ‘twin-tracked’ alongside plan making due to the need to demonstrate very special circumstances for Green Belt release.”
We are unaware of any provisions that would prevent this twin tracking taking place and have had experience in doing this with other local planning authorities.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
SA
Representation ID: 211603
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
The Spatial Options assessed includes:
- Spatial Option 9a
- Spatial Option 10a
- Spatial Option 11a
- Spatial Option 11b
Reviewing the description at Paragraph 4.17 of the Sustainability Appraisal (2025) it is clear that relatively
limited/no development in the villages is a constant across all four options. Whilst appreciating that it is not necessary for soundness for a Sustainability Appraisal to assess every single reasonable option, given the concerns mentioned in other aspects of the evidence base around market absorption rate associated with relying on larger, strategic developments as well as their delivery rates (due to reliance on infrastructure) an option assessing more mid-ranged size development (i.e. 200 – 700) would seem a reasonable alternative to assess.
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
Comment
Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation
Policy S/DS: Development strategy
Representation ID: 211604
Received: 29/01/2026
Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited
Agent: CBRE Limited
The delivery of significant development at a village location can also help in providing the critical mass that is needed to ensure that they themselves can become more sustainable (as the additional population helps in sustaining and improving the viability of existing services).
We consider that there is a missed opportunity to allocate Bar Hill Golf Course given the proximity to the next strategic employment site at Bar Hill. Such an approach and ambition is consistent with Paragraph 110 of the NPPF (2024).
It is unclear how this is factored into the Sustainability Assessment when assessing different strategic options. The Housing Delivery Study Addendum (October 2025) is clear that promoting development in locations such as Bar Hill as part of a suite of site of locations would have the benefit of improving market absorption rates. The Draft Plan’s reliance on a handful of new, strategic sites (see further detail below) is a potential risk to ensuring that housing completions occur at the rate needed in order to meet housing need.
