Land North of Cherry Hinton SPD

Network Rail Consultation Response - South Cambridgeshire District Council - draft Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document for Land North of Cherry Hinton

Thank you for consulting with Network Rail (NR) in relation to the subject consultation. Please find the Response Form 2017 attached to this email. This letter will present Network Rail's consultation response in relation to the proposed documents.

Transport Assessment
* NR would be interested to view a comprehensive transport assessment (TA) to support further design stages.
* A TA would provide clarity of the impact of additional residents upon the transport network, in particular upon the railway stations of Cambridge and Cambridge North, as well as nearby level crossings and over-bridges/underpasses. The crossings on Cherry Hinton High Street and Cherry Hinton by-pass have 34 booked trains per day and currently experience 11,800 and 12,200 vehicles, and 760 and 560 pedestrians per day, respectively. The development will evidently increase usage, and therefore, risk. A TA will enable capacity analysis and identify appropriate impact mitigation and upgrade requirements.
* Existing traffic flow and congestion, and the capacity of alternative public transport services is also a useful feature of TAs that will provide NR a representative view of the local network within Cherry Hinton and the wider area.
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Registered Office: Network Rail, One Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN Registered in England and Wales No. 2904587 www.networkrail.co.uk

Summary of Constraints and Key Development Principles
* NR finds the increased usage of level crossings and/or bridges appropriate to be detailed within both the Summary of Constraints and Key Development Principles sections.
* Investigation into the development's impact upon usage of these infrastructures would enable NR to realise if and how they need to be improved. Such improvements could be the development of a new bridge or upgrading the level crossing system used, for example.

NOCH SPD Workshop
* The publicised local stakeholder workshop notes the possibility of a new train station at Cherry Hinton. NR acknowledges the population growth within Cambridge, however, is in more advanced stages in considering the re-opening of Fulbourn station. Therefore, it is unlikely that a new station will also be developed nearby Cherry Hinton due to its close proximity. Further, any new station would need to be built with additional infrastructure such as the doubling of a single line, in order to meet future aspirations to improve train services between Cambridge and Ipswich. NR welcomes further discussions with the Council.
* In addition, NR would be pleased to discuss further with the Council and other stakeholder groups, such as The Anderson Group, that are interested in expanding the bridge discussed within the workshop.
Network Rail would welcome further discussions with the Council on any of the above matters, and would like to continue to be included in future planning policy consultations.

Network Rail Consultation Response - South Cambridgeshire District Council - draft Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document for Land North of Cherry Hinton

Thank you for consulting with Network Rail (NR) in relation to the subject consultation. Please find the Response Form 2017 attached to this email. This letter will present Network Rail's consultation response in relation to the proposed documents.

Transport Assessment
* NR would be interested to view a comprehensive transport assessment (TA) to support further design stages.
* A TA would provide clarity of the impact of additional residents upon the transport network, in particular upon the railway stations of Cambridge and Cambridge North, as well as nearby level crossings and over-bridges/underpasses. The crossings on Cherry Hinton High Street and Cherry Hinton by-pass have 34 booked trains per day and currently experience 11,800 and 12,200 vehicles, and 760 and 560 pedestrians per day, respectively. The development will evidently increase usage, and therefore, risk. A TA will enable capacity analysis and identify appropriate impact mitigation and upgrade requirements.
* Existing traffic flow and congestion, and the capacity of alternative public transport services is also a useful feature of TAs that will provide NR a representative view of the local network within Cherry Hinton and the wider area.
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Registered Office: Network Rail, One Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN Registered in England and Wales No. 2904587 www.networkrail.co.uk

Summary of Constraints and Key Development Principles
* NR finds the increased usage of level crossings and/or bridges appropriate to be detailed within both the Summary of Constraints and Key Development Principles sections.
* Investigation into the development's impact upon usage of these infrastructures would enable NR to realise if and how they need to be improved. Such improvements could be the development of a new bridge or upgrading the level crossing system used, for example.

NOCH SPD Workshop
* The publicised local stakeholder workshop notes the possibility of a new train station at Cherry Hinton. NR acknowledges the population growth within Cambridge, however, is in more advanced stages in considering the re-opening of Fulbourn station. Therefore, it is unlikely that a new station will also be developed nearby Cherry Hinton due to its close proximity. Further, any new station would need to be built with additional infrastructure such as the doubling of a single line, in order to meet future aspirations to improve train services between Cambridge and Ipswich. NR welcomes further discussions with the Council.
* In addition, NR would be pleased to discuss further with the Council and other stakeholder groups, such as The Anderson Group, that are interested in expanding the bridge discussed within the workshop.
Network Rail would welcome further discussions with the Council on any of the above matters, and would like to continue to be included in future planning policy consultations.

Network Rail Consultation Response - South Cambridgeshire District Council - draft Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document for Land North of Cherry Hinton

Thank you for consulting with Network Rail (NR) in relation to the subject consultation. Please find the Response Form 2017 attached to this email. This letter will present Network Rail's consultation response in relation to the proposed documents.

Transport Assessment
* NR would be interested to view a comprehensive transport assessment (TA) to support further design stages.
* A TA would provide clarity of the impact of additional residents upon the transport network, in particular upon the railway stations of Cambridge and Cambridge North, as well as nearby level crossings and over-bridges/underpasses. The crossings on Cherry Hinton High Street and Cherry Hinton by-pass have 34 booked trains per day and currently experience 11,800 and 12,200 vehicles, and 760 and 560 pedestrians per day, respectively. The development will evidently increase usage, and therefore, risk. A TA will enable capacity analysis and identify appropriate impact mitigation and upgrade requirements.
* Existing traffic flow and congestion, and the capacity of alternative public transport services is also a useful feature of TAs that will provide NR a representative view of the local network within Cherry Hinton and the wider area.
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Registered Office: Network Rail, One Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN Registered in England and Wales No. 2904587 www.networkrail.co.uk

Summary of Constraints and Key Development Principles
* NR finds the increased usage of level crossings and/or bridges appropriate to be detailed within both the Summary of Constraints and Key Development Principles sections.
* Investigation into the development's impact upon usage of these infrastructures would enable NR to realise if and how they need to be improved. Such improvements could be the development of a new bridge or upgrading the level crossing system used, for example.

NOCH SPD Workshop
* The publicised local stakeholder workshop notes the possibility of a new train station at Cherry Hinton. NR acknowledges the population growth within Cambridge, however, is in more advanced stages in considering the re-opening of Fulbourn station. Therefore, it is unlikely that a new station will also be developed nearby Cherry Hinton due to its close proximity. Further, any new station would need to be built with additional infrastructure such as the doubling of a single line, in order to meet future aspirations to improve train services between Cambridge and Ipswich. NR welcomes further discussions with the Council.
* In addition, NR would be pleased to discuss further with the Council and other stakeholder groups, such as The Anderson Group, that are interested in expanding the bridge discussed within the workshop.
Network Rail would welcome further discussions with the Council on any of the above matters, and would like to continue to be included in future planning policy consultations.