Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

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Form ID: 48455
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

5.17 The Local Plan should deliver a spatial strategy that connects homes with jobs and ensures that development improves accessibility to good quality public transport, facilities and services and high quality green spaces. 5.18 The Local Plan should also establish a policy framework that allows for innovative ways to deliver ‘affordable housing’ across tenure types. Housing mix policies should also be flexible to allow for the right homes to come forward in the right location. 5.19 The site presents an opportunity to deliver development which can contribute to achieving ‘good growth’. The site is within walking and cycling distance of a range of services, facilities and public transport modes. Future residents would benefit from easy access to employment, shops and education and community facilities, maximising opportunities for positive influences on their overall health and lifestyle.

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Form ID: 48456
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

5.20 This can principally be achieved through the reduced use of polluting vehicles by: ● Locating development where there is good access to active travel, coupled with access to affordable, frequent, reliable and high quality public transport options. ● Better cycle and pedestrian connectivity – achieved by developments directly and through a coordinated s106 infrastructure programme.

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Form ID: 48457
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

6.1 There should be flexibility within the Local Plan to respond to changing housing needs over the Local Plan period. It is important to identify a baseline housing need but there should be scope for further development to come forward if it meets a particular housing need. This would support the Government’s objective of significantly boosting the supply of homes to ensure that a sufficient amount and variety of land can come forward where it is needed and that the needs of groups with specific housing requirements are addressed (NPPF paragraph 59).

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Form ID: 48458
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

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6.2 To support the Government’s objective of significantly boosting the supply of homes, a sufficient amount and variety of land needs to be identified to meeting housing needs within the Joint Local Plan area. The Cambridge and Peterborough Independent Economic Review (CPIER) (September 2018) suggests that higher housing target numbers are likely to be needed in Cambridgeshire if the potential for higher growth in employment is to be met. 6.3 Housing requirements are minimums, not maximums to stay under at all costs. There is a well evidenced affordability problem in Greater Cambridge; a greater supply of homes will be part of the solution. “Too many of the people working in Cambridge have commutes that are difficult, long and growing: not out of choice, but necessity due to high housing costs.”1 1 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Industrial Strategy 2019, p13

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Form ID: 48459
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

6.4 There should be flexibility within the Local Plan to respond to changing housing needs over the Local Plan period. Consideration of individual site circumstances and the circumstances of a local area should be taken into account to determine the appropriate type of housing for development sites. Separate housing needs assessments should be used to inform the appropriate size, type and tenure of housing needed for different sections of the community, as set out within the Greater Cambridge Housing Strategy 2019-2023. 6.5 Flexibility will be key to a successful Local Plan; through market housing, low-cost and affordable housing. 6.6 The site has the potential to deliver five new market homes to meet needs of not only Impington and Histon but the wider district. The proposals would therefore contribute to increasing accessibility to housing for families, the site is well suited to the provision of small/medium sized homes ideal as starter homes. The proposal is on a sub one-hectare site, therefore sporting the Council’s requirement to meet at least 10% of its housing requirement on sites no larger than one hectare (a requirement set out by Paragraph 68(a) of the NPPF);

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Form ID: 48460
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

6.7 Local Plan policies can require a high standard of design for new residential development, leading from Government policy and guidance. Appropriately worded design policies should require a high quality design for new dwellings. This could include sustainable design principles including measures to improve the energy efficiency of new homes, water saving measures, use of efficient insulation material and heating systems, the reduction and recycling of construction materials, provision of appropriate amenity space and accessibility. Policy should not be prescriptive as to precisely how it should be accomplished, it can set a policy-level, but developers should be able to use a range of options to achieve the target.

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Form ID: 48461
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

7.1 This can principally be achieved through locating new development in locations which have good access to sustainable modes of transport. New development should be located to take advantage of existing or planned transport infrastructure and should be designed in a manner which encourages the take up of active modes of travel. 7.2 The site is ideally located to encourage future residents to use sustainable modes of travel and ensure that trips made by private vehicles are minimised. Impington and Histon, with its range of services and facilities, is located within easy walking distance to the Site. To the south, beyond the A14, is Cambridge and key employment sites. There are existing bus stops close to the site with services to Cambridge.

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Form ID: 48462
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

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8.1 The presumption in favour of sustainable development is recognised, however there should be a degree of flexibility in policy in terms of allowing appropriate development outside of the settlement boundaries of villages, in particular, if development meets a particular local business or community need as set out within paragraph 84 of the NPPF. Sustainable development in rural areas is also supported under paragraph 78 of the NPPF, which requires planning policies to identify opportunities for villages to grow and thrive, especially where this will support local services. A degree of flexibility is even more pertinent to the largest, most sustainable villages in the District, such as Rural and Minor Rural Centres, which provide the facilities and services to encourage more sustainable behaviours. Impington and Histon are locations where new small scale development can be supported sustainably.

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Form ID: 48464
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

8.4 The Local Plan should seek to allocate a component of its housing needs towards growth at existing villages. Sustainable development in rural areas is supported under paragraph 78 of the NPPF, which requires planning policies to identify opportunities for villages to grow and thrive, especially where this will support local services. Development within existing villages can help to sustain existing and deliver new facilities and infrastructure, support shops and business uses and meet both the market and affordable housing needs of the local community. However, growth at villages should be in locations which are or can be made sustainable. 8.5 The site is considered to be a sustainable location for development and a prime opportunity to grow the village of Impington and Histon. The development proposals could deliver tangible social, economic and environmental benefits to settlement and the local area, including: ● Residential development in the form of new family homes of an appropriate scale and form which supports, and is informed by, its village edge location; ● Locating residential development within one of the District’s largest and most sustainable villages. The site is located close to the village centre and is well placed for future residents to be able to walk and cycle, rather than travel by private car, to these facilities; ● Supporting Impington and Histon’s economy, including local shops and services; and, ● A sustainable site location with good access to the facilities and services in Impington and Histon and Cambridge City to the south.

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Form ID: 52530
Respondent: Chivers Family
Agent: Bidwells

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Response to Question 42 8.2 No single solution will deliver a sound Local Plan; rather, a combination of approaches to the distribution of spatial growth will be necessary in order to establish the appropriate locations of new housing and employment development in the district. A hybrid approach will be required but should be underpinned by a focus on accessibility to public transport, employment and other daily needs. 8.3 It is considered that an element of village dispersal should form part of a hybrid spatial strategy. Whilst a village dispersal approach should consider villages from across the settlement hierarchy, it should seek to allocate sites for development at locations in villages which are or can be made sustainable. To contribute to this strategy, Impington and Histon as a Rural Centre is considered to be a sustainable location for future development given the range of services and facilities it contains.

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