Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan

Agree

It is difficult to think anyone could disagree with the sentiment described in the vision, as set out here. The one item which I disagree with slight is the final one. It is all very well to discourage car use 'in order to address climate change', but his completely ignores the fact that, in the next 10 years or so, car use will switch to electric and eventually autonomous vehicles. You should be planning for the REAL future, not the present or the past. A future where everyone will want to be part of the transport revolution that is around the corner, not least be owning an electric vehicle.

Mostly not

Certainly the new development must be well connected by walking and cycling. What has been completely ignored is the future use of cars and other vehicles. * It is naive to think that people will be happy to walk and cycle everywhere. * Are you proposing to prohibit car ownership and parking on the site? * Public transport rarely provides the exact connectivity people need, especially for work, so there is bound to be a significant increase on Milton Road and the A14 junction. * The future of transport will be one of electric and autonomous vehicles, so the issue of climate change ceases to be a concern with this development in 10-15 years' time.

Mostly yes

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Neutral

The balance between jobs and homes is fine. My concern is with the quantity of new jobs an homes, which will put more traffic onto Milton Road and at the A14 junction.

Mostly yes

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Not at all

Both building height and density are completely inappropriate for a city like Cambridge. Nowhere in Cambridge is there any residential or commercial building of 13 storeys. The comparison with such iconic buildings at Kings College chapel and Ely cathedral is frankly ludicrous. The development proposes house people at a density of around 10,000 per sq km, where Cambridge as a whole has a density of 3,000 per sq km. Around the country, only 9 inner city London boroughs, such as Islington, Tower Hamlets and Hackney, exceed this density, all of which are deprived areas. Is this really the ambition, here, to create a deprived area for Cambridge? Because that is the danger down the line.

Mostly not

The planned green space is mostly along narrow strips of land. While this is generally desirable, it is not generally considered as parkland. None of the green spaces appears to be designed to accommodate sports pitches - an essential ingredient for any populous self-contained community.

Neutral

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Not at all

The plan completely ignores the transport revolution that we will see in the next 10-20 years through the use of electric and autonomous vehicles. The stated aim - 'this is important for tackling climate change, and for health and wellbeing' will quickly become a non-issue and we will be left with completely inadequate facilities to cope with the desire of residents to own and/or use green electric transport. The plan also ignores the fact that, while many residents will work on or near the area, many will work in other parts of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Experience tells us that in traveling to work, people want a commute that commences as close as possible from their front door and finished as close as possible to their place of work, and take little more than half an hour at most. For many the only viable option is to use a car.

Mostly yes

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