Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation

Comment

Representation ID: 210605

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Additional supporting text requested
• Site is partly located within the Consultation Area for the Duxford 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 Duxford 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: 210606

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Additional supporting text requested
• Site is partly located within the Consultation Area for the Cambridge Northern Fringe Aggregates Railheads and the Cambridge North Water Recycling Centre. Any proposals must demonstrate that they are compatible with the existing railhead and waste management uses
and will not be adversely affected by their proximity. An additional criterion to policy S/SMC/GT should be added, suggested text: "The Chesterton Fen Site located near to the Cambridge Northern Fringe Aggregates Railheads
and the Cambridge North Water Recycling Centre, any proposals must demonstrate compliance with Policy 16 of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan (2021) (or any successor policies)."

Comment

Representation ID: 210607

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

Update to entry for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan: This entry appears to be out of date and not reference the current Minerals and Waste Local Plan which was adopted in 2021 which superseded the Core Strategy and Site Specific Proposals document, nor the RECAP Design Guide.

Comment

Representation ID: 210608

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Public health support Draft Policy WS/HS that seeks to ensure amenity for new buildings and neighbours by minimising the impacts of:
o Light pollution - Public health would like to see glint and glare included within this policy.
o Noise and vibration
o Air quality, odour, dust, and other fugitive emissions to air
o Contaminated land
o Hazardous installations
o Environmental nuisance / pollution and agent of change principle
• Public health would like to see water pollution and overheating included within this policy.

Comment

Representation ID: 210609

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• Public health support the transport user hierarchy promoting active travel above the use of all other vehicles. Public Health recommend that active travel routes and sustainable travel opportunities in developments should:

o contribute to maintaining, improving and adding to connectivity for pedestrians, cyclists, users of wheeled mobility aids
o be well defined, lit, feel safe with natural surveillance wherever possible
o respond to the needs of people with disabilities and reduced mobility
o maintain, improve and add to rail, bus and community transport connectivity
o provide infrastructure to facilitate sustainable transport

Comment

Representation ID: 210610

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• We are concerned that the ‘South of Coldham’s Lane Area of Major Change’ allocation site covers a large number of Local Sites, including Norman Cement Pits, Coldham’s Lane Old Landfill Sites, CU Officer training Corps Pit and Cherry Hinton Brook City Wildlife Sites.
• We welcome the inclusion of a requirement to ‘deliver appropriate ecological management’ and reference to Local Sites within the Policy S/AMC/SCL. However, this doesn’t really consider the importance of this land as a strategic wildlife corridor, identified in the Cambridge Nature Network, nor the identification of land for habitat enhancement / creation within the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (final version expected to be published at end of 2025).
• We recommend the wording of the policy be expanded to include strengthening of the important wildlife corridor and delivery of Local Nature Recovery Strategy priority habitat
actions.

Comment

Representation ID: 210611

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• We welcome that nature is included within the policy for the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (including Addenbrooke's Hospital), particularly the need to ‘improving ecological links between Nine Wells LNR and GoG Magog Hills’ and the allocation of ‘Non-development areas adjacent to Cambridge Biomedical Campus Strategic Enhancement Area’ (S/SEA/CBC)

Comment

Representation ID: 210612

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• We welcome this ambition. The policy should make clear that opportunities should be sought to maximise the provision of new active travel routes (ie, hard-surfaced routes for utility travel) and new ‘leisure’ routes comprised of PROW (ie, soft-surface routes that provide enhanced
countryside access)

Comment

Representation ID: 210613

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• We welcome the ambition to protect and improve existing non-motorised user routes. It should be noted that “improvement” works such as re-surfacing a soft-surface PROW to a tarmac facility, can potentially be damaging to the pre-existing network of PROW. This potentially introduces disbenefits to the established user base and to biodiversity, and so does not always neatly marry with a desire to “protect” the network. Accordingly, the document
should acknowledge that improvements to PROW will take place “where appropriate”, and in a manner that is sympathetic to the existing nature of the PROW.

Comment

Representation ID: 210614

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Cambridgeshire County Council

• The policy seeks to maximise active travel. It should also seek to make best use of opportunities to enhance countryside access through an expanding network of PROW and permissive access routes for leisure journeys.