A14 CAMBRIDGE TO HUNTINGDON IMPROVEMENT SCHEME DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDER - EXAMINATION Written Representation By Cambridgeshire County Council Shire Hall, Castle Hill, Cambridge, CB3 0AP 15 June 2015 A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Development Consent Order Written Representation by Cambridgeshire County Council CONTENTS CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................... 2 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................ 9 2. NEED FOR THE SCHEME ............................................................................................................. 11 2.1 Role in the Local Transport Network ......................................................................................... 11 2.2 Scheme History .......................................................................................................................... 12 2.3 Regional Growth ........................................................................................................................ 15 2.4 Northstowe New Town .............................................................................................................. 16 2.5 Waterbeach New Town ............................................................................................................. 16 2.6 West Cambourne / Bourn Airfield ............................................................................................. 17 2.7 Huntingdon, St Ives, Alconbury Weald and Wyton Airfield development, Huntingdonshire ... 18 3. POLICY CONTEXT ........................................................................................................................ 20 3.1 Compliance with Local Policy Objectives ................................................................................... 20 3.2 Cambridgeshire Local Transport Plan 3 (2014).......................................................................... 20 3.3 Transport Strategy for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire (2014) ...................................... 21 3.4 Huntingdon Market Town Transport Strategy (2014) ............................................................... 21 3.5 Cambridgeshire’s Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (2013) ............................................ 21 3.6 Cambridgeshire Landscape Guidelines (1993) .......................................................................... 22 4. HIGHWAYS ENGLANDS PROPOSALS .......................................................................................... 23 4.1 A14 and A1 Trunk Road ............................................................................................................. 23 4.2 Local Roads ................................................................................................................................ 23 A1307 Local Access Road to Swavesey ...................................................................................... 24 A1307 Local Road to Alconbury ................................................................................................. 24 A141 Trunk Road (existing A14) ................................................................................................ 24 Local Roads to be Diverted or Improved ................................................................................... 25 4.3 A14 Huntingdon Railway Viaduct .............................................................................................. 25 Page 2 A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Development Consent Order Written Representation by Cambridgeshire County Council 5. STATEMENT OF COMMON GROUND ........................................................................................ 29 6. LOCAL IMPACT REPORT ............................................................................................................. 30 7. NOISE ......................................................................................................................................... 31 8. AIR QUALITY ............................................................................................................................... 32 8.1 General ...................................................................................................................................... 32 8.2 Cambridgeshire Joint Air Quality Action Plan (2010) ................................................................ 32 8.3 Operational Dust........................................................................................................................ 32 9. CODE OF CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE ......................................................................................... 33 9.1 Development of the Code of Construction Practice .................................................................. 33 9.2 Changes Required to the Development Consent Order ............................................................ 36 10. TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT ......................................................................................................... 37 10.1 Background ................................................................................................................................ 37 10.2 The County Council Position on CHARM2 ................................................................................. 37 10.3 Local Impacts ............................................................................................................................. 38 Area 1: Alconbury, Little Stukeley, Great Stukeley .................................................................... 39 Area 2: Huntingdon, Brampton, Hartford and Godmanchester ................................................ 40 Area 3: Houghton and Wyton, St Ives, Fenstanton, Fen Drayton ............................................. 41 Area 4: Swavesey and Over ....................................................................................................... 41 Area 5: Elsworth, Boxworth, Knapwell ...................................................................................... 42 Area 6: Papworth Everard, Hilton .............................................................................................. 42 Area 7: Bar Hill, Longstanton, Willingham, Oakington and Northstowe; .................................. 43 Area 8: Dry Drayton, Madingley; ............................................................................................... 43 Area 9: Girton, Histon and Impington, Cottenham, Milton;...................................................... 45 Area 10: Cambridge ................................................................................................................... 45 10.4 Further Work Needed ................................................................................................................ 46 10.5 Transport Assessment ............................................................................................................... 47 11. MINERALS AND WASTE.............................................................................................................. 49 Page 3 A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Development Consent Order Written Representation by Cambridgeshire County Council 11.1 General ...................................................................................................................................... 49 11.2 Scope of Planning Policy Assessment ........................................................................................ 50 11.3 Review of Established Policy ...................................................................................................... 53 Policy CS22 – Climate Change .................................................................................................... 53 Policy CS25 - Restoration & Aftercare ....................................................................................... 54 Policy CS34 - Protecting Surrounding Uses................................................................................ 56 Policy CS35 - Biodiversity and Geodiversity .............................................................................. 58 Policy CS36 - Archaeology and the Historic Environment ......................................................... 59 Policy CS37 - Public Rights of Way ............................................................................................. 59 Policy CS39 - Water Resources .................................................................................................. 60 Issues with Specific Borrow Pit Sites ......................................................................................... 61 11.4 Sourcing of Material Not Available Locally ................................................................................ 61 11.5 Required Changes to the Proposals of Highways England ........................................................ 62 12. ROAD DRAINAGE AND FLOODING ............................................................................................. 64 12.1 General ...................................................................................................................................... 64 Bar Hill ........................................................................................................................................ 64 Histon and Impington ...............................................................................................................