Greater Cambridge Local Plan: Proposed Submission

Object

Representation ID: 212454

Received: 21/09/2026

Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited

Agent: CBRE Limited

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Of the 13,463 required, 12,550 (or 93%) is made up on five sites. 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.

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

Representation ID: 213906

Received: 21/09/2026

Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited

Agent: CBRE Limited

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 to larger sites.

There is no real acknowledgement in the Sustainability Appraisal as to the role that the Golden Rules 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.”

We would question if such an assessment criteria appropriately reflects where national Green Belt policy has moved to, notably Grey Belt.

Comment

Representation ID: 213907

Received: 21/09/2026

Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited

Agent: CBRE Limited

The Sustainability Appraisal states that, “In 2025, four further Strategic Spatial Options were identified by the Councils in response to the increased objectively assessed need for homes for the plan area, and to ensure fair testing of a Strategic Spatial Option not previously identified".

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.

Comment

Representation ID: 213908

Received: 21/09/2026

Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited

Agent: CBRE Limited

This representation relates to a site submission (HELAA ref 59381: Cambridge Bar Hill Hotel, Bar Hill CB23 8EU).

Comment

Representation ID: 213909

Received: 21/09/2026

Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited

Agent: CBRE Limited

We note that the Draft Local Plan includes a significant allocation This includes approximately 220,000 Land north of A1307, Bar Hill (Slate Hall Farm) 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 sustainability.

Comment

Representation ID: 213910

Received: 21/09/2026

Respondent: LGH Hotels Management Limited

Agent: CBRE Limited

Paragraph 2.104 of the Cambridge Housing Delivery Study Addendum notes 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.
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.