Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

The Local Plan has a critical role in promoting a sustainable spatial development strategy that should apply a sequential approach to housing and employment development, starting with development in Cambridge (through densification), at the edge of Cambridge (including further selective releases of Green Belt land) and along transport corridors, in order to: - support the agglomeration of KIknowledge intensive organisations; - benefit from higher levels of land value capture for investment in zero-carbon energy infrastructure, sustainable transport infrastructure, social infrastructure and net gain to natural capital; - reduce the need to travel and to enable travel by sustainable modes (walking, cycling and public transport), helping to improve peoples’ health and wellbeing and to improve economic productivity. The sustainable spatial development strategy should be supported by and coordinated with a transport strategy for Cambridge where highway space is reallocated from private vehicles in favour of walking, cycling and public transport. This would require the removal of public and private car parking in the City Centre.

In addition to standard requirements for social and environmental infrastructure required to support new housing development (schools, health, transport mitigation, open space and recreation, drainage, etc), major new infrastructure will be required to unlock Greater Cambridge’s economic development potential and to achieve zero carbon energy, most significantly: - electrical infrastructure (generation and transmission) - transport infrastructure to deliver Greater Cambridge Partnership’s Future Network vision and the Combined Authority’s CAM Metro framework. Both are essential.

Yes

Please refer to the submission from the North Barton Road Landowners Group for South West Cambridge.

Densification of existing urban areas, Edge of Cambridge: Outside Green Belt, Edge of Cambridge: Green Belt, Public Transport Corridors, Dispersal: New Settlements, Dispersal: Villages

We agree with this statement from the CPIER Final Report (September 2018): "We conclude that a dispersal strategy, which seeks to relocate homes and businesses away from city centres is unlikely to be successful, as it is ‘agglomeration’ – the desire to be near other companies – that attracts companies to the area. Other options, such as densification, fringe growth, and transport corridors all have potential benefits, and should be pursued to an extent, though none should be taken to its extreme." The Local Plan has a critical role in promoting a sustainable spatial development strategy that should apply a sequential approach to housing and employment development, starting with development in Cambridge (through selective densification), at the edge of Cambridge (including further selective releases of Green Belt land) and along transport corridors, in order to: - support the agglomeration of knowledge intensive organisations; - benefit from higher levels of land value capture for investment in zero-carbon energy infrastructure, sustainable transport infrastructure, social infrastructure and net gain to natural capital; - reduce the need to travel; and - and to enable travel by sustainable modes (walking, cycling and public transport), helping to improve peoples’ health and wellbeing and to improve economic productivity.

The Local Plan should include proposals to increase the density of employment and housing development in selected areas. The University proposes densification on two parts of its estate: 1. West Cambridge employment densification - the University proposed an increase to the density of employment development at the West Cambridge Site through the most recent review of the Cambridge Local Plan. Policy 19 ‘West Cambridge Area of Major Change’ is supportive of the densification of development on the site. Outline planning permission is expected to be granted in 2020. The site will accommodate around 14,000 jobs on completion of development. 2. North West Cambridge (Eddington) housing densification - see the attached Appendix 1 for details. The densification of development at these two strategically important sites for the Local Plan would enable the advantages identified in the Issues and Options Report to be realised.

The University supports the proposed development of Cambridge Airport for mixed-use housing and employment development in principle. It will be important for the Local Plan to be based on realistic expectations about the timing of availability of the site, the rate of development and the total amount of development that could come forward during the Plan period.

Please refer to the submission made by the North Barton Road Land Owners Group for the development of land north of Barton Road, referred to as South West Cambridge.

Please refer to the response to question 42

Please refer to the response to question 42

Please refer to the response to question 42