Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan

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Part C - Comments on specific policies and supporting documents: Object Introduction These representations relate to the site occupied by Ridgeons off Nuffield Road. Ridgeons has a long leasehold interest in the land. The Ridgeons site is located within the AAP boundary to the south and falls within the Nuffield Road Industrial Estate. The site is identified for ‘Housing Led’ redevelopment within the draft AAP on the ‘Proposed land uses’ plan at Figure 11.Ridgeons operate a builders merchant from the site, which serves Cambridge and the surrounding area, and intends to continue operating from the site to meet the needs of its customers. As set out in these representations, Ridgeons intends to remain on site and therefore want to ensure that the proposed use and form of development identified in the AAP would not affect its existing or future operations. However, if they are to relocate, the site needs to generate a high use value to make the land viable and to fund the purchase, development and move to another relocation site. Therefore, the proposed use of the Ridgeons site for housing led redevelopment uses are supported. If it is not possible to avoid potential conflicts between surrounding residential uses and the existing builders merchant operations at the Ridgeons site, then, a suitable alternative should be identified within the AAP area to enable Ridgeons (if required) to relocate its existing operations. If this is not possible, the relocation of Ridgeons operation to another site needs to be viable and acceptable to the company from an operational perspective.