Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan

Strongly disagree

Proposed development is too big and will put too much load on our small mediaeval city centre. The residential part is too far and too separated from the centre of the city to be an effective new city district. It is largely cut off by the industrial/business areas.

Neutral

Ys but it is long walk into the centre, or even from one side of the site to the other. Increased pedestrian and especially cycle traffic along the river and Stourbridge common will ruin that as a leisure amenity. Residential site is largely cut off by the A14 and the large business park area surrounding it.

Neutral

They are OK, but as with al this kind of development, there are too few of them and they will not be attractive enough to form a real local centre. People will head straight for the centre of town where there is much more variety.

Neutral

Traffic plans are totally unrealistic. Residents will have cars and there will be massive extra traffic caused by the business expansion. As a business owner with two premises in the area I know that not all staff live within cycling distance and not all have convenient rail access, or are able to fit in using trains with he need to carr out school runs etc. Why is such a big development being considered without sensible investment in road infrastructure, including for private cars and commercial vehicle traffic. It is very hard to get out of the business parks on both sides of Milton Road in the evening rush-hour. With 3 times the number of people, this will be awful. I also live off Milton Road and am really worried about the level of congestion that the business and residential traffic will cause - especially when much of the road and pavements is reallocated to cyclists. The combination of cycle superhighway and narrow road-way for vehicles means that all this vehicle and cycle traffic will cause real damage and loss of amenity to the communities living along the Milton Road corridor.

Mostly not

There is absolutely no need for 13 storey visual features. Size doesn't necessarily create a pleasant sense of place. This smacks of the usual developer's statement ' this area needs a landmark building' that gets trotted out to justify over-dense and over-high buildings.

Neutral

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