Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation

Comment

Representation ID: 210590

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Paragraph 2.3.77 - This wording is not quite correct. We suggest: “A nursery, secondary school, primary school and special school have now been built but further education facilities will be required to meet the needs of the new town, including additional primary schools”.

Comment

Representation ID: 210591

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Vision and Identity paragraph 2 - The list does not include the special school.
• Built Form paragraph 10c - The wording is ambiguous and may be construed as suggesting more than 2 secondary schools on the site. We suggest amending to: “Two other Local Centres, one of which will serve the northeastern residential area and a secondary school and primary schools to meet the needs of the development.”

Comment

Representation ID: 210592

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Paragraph 6.25 - There is no reference to special needs provision.
• Paragraph 6.32 - There is no reference to special needs provision. The inclusion of the reference to discourage the use of restrictive covenants that would restrict the ability to use homes for childminding business use is supported.

Comment

Representation ID: 210596

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Mixed success with this, we have had it at Northstowe, Alconbury and Waterbeach to help create new hubs for communities to engage with.
• However, things like building in spaces for visit from food trucks and the mobile library can help with logistics of a new community as it sets up before permanent facilities are in place (learning from Northstowe).

Comment

Representation ID: 210597

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Some opportunities to work with Adult Education to support this offer and specifically the Business and Intellectual Property to support new opportunities that can develop in new community. Business & IP Centre Cambridgeshire (BIPC) | Cambridgeshire County Council
Potential to buy into specific project work in a community to support ambitions.

Comment

Representation ID: 210598

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Need for bungalows/housing that is accessible for older people other those with disabilities and in turn these developments need to be the most accessible, closer to hospitals, regular public transport, communal social spaces, access to physical activities (falls prevention)

Comment

Representation ID: 210599

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• General support for text on page 103 Vision – criterion d which safeguards the Waste Transfer Station and Aggregates Railhead unless relocation is secured.
• General support for supporting text & Request for additional text on page 111 in paragraph 3.1.8 setting out the approach to the safeguarded sites. However, it would be appropriate to explain that the Aggregates Railhead and Waste Transfer station are safeguarded strategic
facilities under the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan and refer to a relevant statement of common ground (see below).
• Request for updated statement of common ground – Cambridgeshire County Council, was,
along with a number of other organisations signatories to the North East Cambridge Area Action Plan Proposed Submission Duty to Cooperate Statement of Common Ground (November 2021). As the safeguarding of waste and minerals remains a strategic matter that affects more than one authority, a reaffirming or update to that statement of common ground to support this draft plan is requested.

Comment

Representation ID: 210601

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Additional supporting text requested
• Site is partly located within the Consultation Area for the Uttons Drove Water Recycling Centre. This should be identified as a constraint in the supporting text. The following supporting text is recommended for inclusion.
"This site is near to the Uttons Drove Water Recycling Centre. An odour assessment may be required. Please refer to Policy 16 of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan (2021) for further information."

Comment

Representation ID: 210602

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Support Inclusion of Text
• Supporting text 3.5.22 refers to Policy 16 of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan, and need for odour assessment. General support for inclusion of supporting text.

Comment

Representation ID: 210604

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Additional supporting text requested
• Site area includes a safeguarded Waste Management Area for the partially implemented EIC as shown on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan (2021) Policies Map. Developers should be made aware that the partial implementation of this EIC involved the construction of underground tunnels; and this should be considered in any design. It is requested that supporting text to this effect is included in the
Plan for this allocation.