Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
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New searchWhilst the underlying aims are sound, the proposed implementation results in building density and heights that are totally out of keeping with Cambridge and the surrounding edge-of fen landscape. The plan includes a major incursion into the Green Belt to relocate the sewage works for which there is no operational need and a major addition to the population with attendant infrastructure needs. The consequences are likely to be increased congestion and unavoidable degradation of the environment of north-east Cambridge. The traffic estimates and parking proposals can at best be described as unachievable utopia. The increased use of electric and hybrid vehicles and the potential development of fuel-cell driven vehicles are likely to maintain or even increase the demand for motor vehicle usage. The proposals will overload the parking capability and drive displacement parking into the surrounding areas. Planning applications and building upgrades on the Science Park are already increasing office space by two to three times within the same plot, with no attendant increase in car or cycle parking and no evidence of any improvement in public transport with surrounding areas.
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The cycling provisions are probably sufficient for the numbers that are likely to use them, but the expectation that the majority of people in the area will be able and willing to connect easily to their workplace and families in other areas via public transport with Cambridge North as the hub seems highly unlikely even if there was a very significant increase in bus routes, service frequency and early and late timetables compared to the hopelessly inadequate services available today
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The increase in jobs is far in excess of the proposed increase in local population even in the unlikely event that most residents will work in the surrounding area. It is ludicrous to assume that the number and type of new jobs will be taken by people within easy commute without use of cars.
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This development is not only making the same mistakes as 1960s urban planners with high-rise high density developments, but adding some new mistakes of their own that rely on a quantum shift in public behaviour that is unlikely to happen for decades. There is a high risk of creating the slums of the future.
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Whilst the mix may be in the right direction, the amount of new open space is hopelessly inadequate for the proposed population.
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The current plans rely on a step-change in public behaviour and expectations that has next to no chance of happening. The result will be congestion in the surrounding areas with significant displacement parking.
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