Draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan for consultation

Comment

Representation ID: 209978

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 1) Endurance has some concerns that insufficient allowance is currently being made for employment development to ensure a balanced, self-contained and prosperous new town is ultimately achieved. The proposed 108,000sqm of floorspace is not considered to be sufficient to support these aspirations to achieve a balanced, self contained community consistent with the requirement to operate within a limited trip budget.

Object

Representation ID: 209979

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

(S/CBN: Part 1, Spatial Framework and Site Plan) Endurance object to the proposed site allocation boundary. It is too prescriptive at this stage and insufficient work / evidence has been undertaken/provided on key constraints such as landscape and heritage to support such a precise approach. This is a long-term development that will take place over decades and greater flexibility is therefore required to enable the proposals to respond to more detailed assessment and masterplanning along with changes in circumstances over time. Consistent with policies in the Adopted Local Plans, we feel that the scheme should be design led and that the Concept Spatial Framework is too prescriptive at this early stage in the process.

Comment

Representation ID: 209980

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 1) It is considered that there is scope to extend the development framework further to the west whilst still maintaining a suitable buffer to Papworth to the north west and without unduly impacting on known constraints or the aspirations for the Strategic Enhancement Area. This is illustrated through the additional areas shown in orange on the attached Masterplan Spatial Framework Strategy (Drawing Ref: 19-237-SGP-STE-XX-DR-A-011003-P03), which shows potential additional development areas to the west which Endurance consider to be suitable for development as part of the Cambourne North proposals.

Support

Representation ID: 209981

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 3) Endurance strongly support both the East West Rail and C2C infrastructure schemes and consider that these provide a huge opportunity to create a truly sustainable new settlement subject to their future integration with the North Cambourne development.

Endurance support the ambition of Cambourne building on these planned infrastructure improvements to become a cultural and leisure destination of its own.

Comment

Representation ID: 209982

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 3) It is considered important that EE, MGL and GCSP continue to engage with East West Rail to ensure that the design ambitions for the project are appropriately taken into account in the design of the EWR alignment, station, and associated infrastructure. EWR should be encouraged to design with the new town in mind. Further to this, the framework for North Cambourne should also have sufficient flexibility to ensure that future development is not compromised by infrastructure and that the necessary roads, bridges and other infrastructure required for the new community can be delivered appropriately.

Support

Representation ID: 209983

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 4) Endurance support the new station interchange becoming the focal point for the new town. East West Rail’s proposal to move the station towards the A428 roundabout is welcomed and Endurance very much support this ambition, ensuring that it is more central within the town and thus more accessible to both new and existing residents. This also fits with Government objectives of focussing development around train stations and using these as drivers of sustainable development. Creating a hub around the new station will ensure that a high-density mixed-use development can be delivered around the station, providing a range of services and facilities in the most sustainable and accessible location, whilst also ensuring through improved connectivity the scheme is properly integrated with the existing community at Cambourne.

Support

Representation ID: 209984

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 4) Endurance also support the provision of a network of neighbourhood centres across the wider Cambourne North development to ensure all residents have suitable access to day-to-day services and facilities within walking or cycling distance, ensuring the creation of walkable neighbourhoods and sustainable living patterns.

Comment

Representation ID: 209985

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 4) Whilst the incorporation of a range of high quality open spaces is supported, a suitable balance needs to be sought between open green spaces and higher density living and working spaces around the station. This balance will need to be explored further through masterplanning.

Comment

Representation ID: 209986

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 4) Whilst the incorporation of a range of high quality open spaces is supported, a suitable balance needs to be sought between open green spaces and higher density living and working spaces around the station. This balance will need to be explored further through masterplanning.

Support

Representation ID: 209987

Received: 30/01/2026

Respondent: Endurance Estates

(S/CBN: Part 5) Endurance support the proposed neighbourhoods approach in principle, given the scale of the proposed town. This can be an effective means of providing accessible, walkable communities with their own character and identity and range of day-to-day facilities.