Development Strategy Topic Paper Greater Cambridge Local Plan Topic paper published alongside the First Proposals (Regulation 18: The Preferred Options) Consultation 2021 Contents 1. Introduction and Purpose .................................................................................... 5 Greater Cambridge Local Plan Statement of Consultation ..................................... 6 Greater Cambridge Local Plan Sustainability Appraisal ......................................... 6 Greater Cambridge Local Plan Habitats Regulations Assessment ......................... 7 Greater Cambridge Local Plan Duty to Cooperate: Statement of Common Ground ................................................................................................................................ 8 Greater Cambridge Local Plan Equalities Impact Assessment (EQIA) ................... 8 Part 1A: Overarching development strategy ............................................................. 10 1. Issue the Plan is seeking to respond to ....................................................... 10 2. Overarching Policy Context ......................................................................... 11 2.1 National Context ...................................................................................... 11 2.2 Regional / Local Context .......................................................................... 11 2.3 Greater Cambridge Local Plan Process to Date ...................................... 14 2.4 Context Summary .................................................................................... 15 3. Emerging Vision and Aims for the Local Plan ............................................. 17 Our vision .......................................................................................................... 17 Our aims ........................................................................................................... 17 4. New jobs and homes ................................................................................... 19 4.1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 19 4.2. Policy Context ....................................................................................... 19 4.3. Consultation and engagement .............................................................. 20 4.4. Evidence Base ...................................................................................... 20 4.5. Analysis ................................................................................................ 23 4.6. Sustainability Appraisal ......................................................................... 25 4.7. Conclusion ............................................................................................ 25 4.8. Further work and next steps ................................................................. 26 5. Employment provision ................................................................................. 27 5.1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 27 5.2 Policy Context .......................................................................................... 27 5.3 Evidence base ......................................................................................... 27 5.4 Analysis ................................................................................................... 30 5.5 Conclusion ............................................................................................... 33 2 GCLP - PPSE – SEPTEMBER 2021 6. Housing provision ............................................................................................. 34 6.1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 34 6.2 Policy Context .......................................................................................... 34 6.3 Evidence base ......................................................................................... 34 6.4 Proposed Policy Direction and Reasons .................................................. 39 6.5 Analysis: Establishing the balance of homes to find ................................ 41 Stage ................................................................................................................. 42 Homes 2020-2041 ............................................................................................. 42 6.6 Meeting the requirements of paragraph 69 of the NPPF 2021 ................. 45 6.7 Conclusion: Housing requirement and balance of homes to find ............. 47 6.8 Further work and next steps .................................................................... 47 7. Development strategy ................................................................................. 48 7.1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 48 7.2 Policy context ........................................................................................... 48 7.3 First Conversation and Strategic Spatial Options .................................... 51 7.4 Towards the First Proposals development strategy ................................. 62 7.5 Proposed Approach: First Proposals development strategy .................... 70 7.6 Alternatives considered ............................................................................ 87 7.7 Further work and next steps .................................................................... 89 Part 1B: Additional development strategy policies ................................................... 90 S/SH Settlement hierarchy ................................................................................... 90 Issue the Plan is Seeking to Respond to ........................................................... 90 Policy Context ................................................................................................... 90 Consultation and Engagement .......................................................................... 91 Evidence Base .................................................................................................. 91 Proposed Policy Direction and Reasons ........................................................... 91 Further Work and Next Steps ............................................................................ 93 S/SB Settlement boundaries ................................................................................. 94 Issue the Plan is Seeking to Respond to ........................................................... 94 Policy Context ................................................................................................... 94 Consultation and Engagement .......................................................................... 94 Evidence Base .................................................................................................. 95 Proposed Policy Direction and Reasons ........................................................... 95 3 GCLP - PPSE – SEPTEMBER 2021 Further Work and Next Steps ............................................................................ 96 Part 2: Approach to site allocations supporting the preferred spatial strategy .......... 98 1. Introduction ................................................................................................. 98 2. The city of Cambridge ................................................................................. 99 S/NEC: North East Cambridge .......................................................................... 99 S/WC: West Cambridge .................................................................................. 103 S/AMC: Areas of Major Change ...................................................................... 105 S/OA: Opportunity Areas in Cambridge .......................................................... 107 S/LAC: Land allocations in Cambridge ............................................................ 110 3. The edge of Cambridge ............................................................................ 116 S/CE: Cambridge East .................................................................................... 116 S/NWC: North West Cambridge ...................................................................... 124 S/CBC: Cambridge Biomedical Campus ......................................................... 127 S/EOC Other Existing Allocations on the Edge of Cambridge ........................ 139 4. New Settlements ....................................................................................... 142 S/CB: Cambourne ........................................................................................... 142 S/NS: Existing new settlements ...................................................................... 145 5. The rural southern cluster ......................................................................... 149 S/GC: Genome Campus, Hinxton ................................................................... 149 S/BRC: Babraham Research Campus ............................................................ 151 S/RSC: Village Allocations in the Rural Southern Cluster ............................... 156 S/SCP: Policy areas in the rural southern cluster ............................................ 162 6. Rest of the rural area ................................................................................ 165 S/RRA: Allocations in rest of the rural area ....................................................