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Form ID: 45450
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

There are numerous matters relevant here which are all reflected in the adopted local plans: • Inclusion of affordable housing; • Development that meets the needs of young families and the elderly; • Include low cost starter homes in new larger developments; • Proximity of housing to nearby employment (and vice versa); • Proximity of housing to non-car means of transport; • New tree planting or biodiversity enhancements in all developments; • Quality of place-making; • Car-sharing and communal transport arrangements; • Staggered operating hours to reduce peak hour traffic/travel impacts; • Enhanced and subsidised public transport generally; • Technology to allow home and flexible working; and • Large developments to include new allotments, community woodlands/orchards, wetland creation etc.

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Form ID: 45451
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

No specific comments, although particular care is needed to meet the needs of the elderly population.

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Form ID: 45452
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

See previous questions regarding new green infrastructure, new non-car means of travel i.e. pedestrian and cycle linkages, and co-locating housing close to existing/planned employment areas. This is of particularly relevant to locations which are close to public transport routes or within easy cycling distance of Cambridge and major employers.

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Form ID: 45453
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

Primarily, reducing traffic levels at any key problem areas (where are these?) but mainly general provision of an enhanced public transport system. The introduction of different forms of heating within new development will also result in improvements

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Form ID: 45454
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

No specific comments but we would add that the current system of Design Review Panels is not very cost effective. Firstly, the whole process does not work well for outline planning applications. Secondly, the Panels are generally negative in their stance and seldom promote positive messages. The system needs to be reviewed to bring in far more positive and encouraging approaches rather than vague criticism. This will also allow applications to be determined and delivered in a timely manner.

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Form ID: 45455
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

Very important

It is very important if the levels of growth contemplated are to be achieved, including the Combined Authority vision of doubling economic output. There is no point in planning for high levels of new housebuilding if there is not a related level of job growth and economic development. There are questions as to the affordability and delivery of housing which needs to be addressed prior to or in tandem with economic growth. This is also necessary to reduce the level of in-commuting from other Districts. Furthermore, and as set out under various other questions, we consider that the release of land from the Green Belt at Fulbourn and a substantial housing allocation at Abington Park Farms would play a role in accommodating some of the future housing growth arising from economic growth, thereby reducing out-commuting from more remote, non-Green Belt, locations to Cambridge.

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Form ID: 45456
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

All types. There has been a tendency for older and generally poorer quality industrial and related concerns to be redeveloped for either housing or for office/hi-tech type uses. Those, sometimes quasi-industrial uses are still needed, and they are needed within the city otherwise there are further adverse transport impacts. Examples include car repair garages and sales, builders’ yards, driving schools, undertakers, laundries, petrol stations, and open storage uses. All such uses employ people locally but also provide important local services. The growth of on-line retailing inevitably results in the demand for more warehousing space which needs to be accommodated somewhere on appropriately located accessible sites. There is possibly a case for ‘transfer-type’ warehousing outside of Cambridge where goods are switched to smaller vehicles for delivery into the City and HGV delivery lorries are suppressed or their operating hours controlled. This is an approach advocated by paragraph 82 of the NPPF. There is also a need to recognise that there is a greater demand for flexible and home working and appropriate technology needs to be incorporated into all forms of development to allow this to occur. Finally, there are a number of growing small businesses in the high-tech sector in the Plan area. Many of these do not wish to be located on large scale business or research parks and indeed may not be overly suitable for such parks, which tend to be office/lab dominated. Therefore, there is a need for a greater level of high-tech manufacturing/production space in suitable locations. This sector is generally best located out of Cambridge itself and so there should be allocations for new employment land in key villages and larger allocations, such as Fulbourn and Abington Park Farm where there are local services, planned public transport improvements and existing/planned housing growth.

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Form ID: 45457
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

All types. There has been a tendency for older and generally poorer quality industrial and related concerns to be redeveloped for either housing or for office/hi-tech type uses. Those, sometimes quasi-industrial uses are still needed, and they are needed within the city otherwise there are further adverse transport impacts. Examples include car repair garages and sales, builders’ yards, driving schools, undertakers, laundries, petrol stations, and open storage uses. All such uses employ people locally but also provide important local services. The growth of on-line retailing inevitably results in the demand for more warehousing space which needs to be accommodated somewhere on appropriately located accessible sites. There is possibly a case for ‘transfer-type’ warehousing outside of Cambridge where goods are switched to smaller vehicles for delivery into the City and HGV delivery lorries are suppressed or their operating hours controlled. This is an approach advocated by paragraph 82 of the NPPF. There is also a need to recognise that there is a greater demand for flexible and home working and appropriate technology needs to be incorporated into all forms of development to allow this to occur. Finally, there are a number of growing small businesses in the high-tech sector in the Plan area. Many of these do not wish to be located on large scale business or research parks and indeed may not be overly suitable for such parks, which tend to be office/lab dominated. Therefore, there is a need for a greater level of high-tech manufacturing/production space in suitable locations. This sector is generally best located out of Cambridge itself and so there should be allocations for new employment land in key villages and larger allocations, such as Fulbourn and Abington Park Farm where there are local services, planned public transport improvements and existing/planned housing growth.

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Form ID: 45458
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

Yes, in appropriate circumstances but not if the business is defunct or the premises wholly unsuitable for current needs or expansion. A more flexible and pragmatic approach needs to be taken, with policies imposing draconian time-limits for the marketing of sites before the Council will countenance changes of use.

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Form ID: 45460
Respondent: David Chaplin
Agent: Cheffins

We would suggest that a joint economic development assessment is required analysing the current employment pattern and the existing skills profile of the area. There is a risk that the local plan focusses on the high tech (IT, life sciences etc) sector which requires B1 space (offices/labs) at the expense of all other sectors. Due regard needs to be given to a full range of employment types particularly advanced engineering or high-end manufacturing. This is of particular importance if Marshall relocates outside the plan area. See also our response to Question 25.

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