Object

Representation ID: 10470

Received: 29/07/2022

Respondent: Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust

Agent: DLP Planning Limited

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Please see accompanying Representations Report Paragraphs 3.39 – 3.52

As part of the Summer 2021 Consultation upon Preferred Strategy Options and Draft Policies (para 1.45) the Council identified that a review of the settlement hierarchy was ‘underway’.

In relation to our client’s interests at Lincroft Academy Site ID: 832 / 839 the Council’s proposed spatial strategy and distribution of growth is not supported. MAT further objects to the failure to revise Oakley’s classification as a Rural Service Centre as part of determining the spatial strategy and distribution of growth as an outcome of the plan-making process.
MAT support in principle Modifications to the distribution of growth outlined in Policy DS5(S) that would enable delivery of the Land East of Station Road and the wider benefits identified.
The delivery facilities for the school upon this land (including relocation of the sports pitches) is outside of the current (unfunded) project costs of £8m associated with the minimum requirements for expansion within the existing campus West of Station Road. This does not, however, preclude assessment of MAT’s interests East of Station Road as part of safeguarding future opportunities for expansion and improvement in-tandem with the delivery of the minimum requirements identified nor does it preclude recognition of the wider potential benefits of the additional land in terms of enhancement of the identified project costs and a potential source of additional funding.