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Presented by: Date:

Cambridge Southern Fringe Community Forum 20th June 2019 Ben Hunt

Associate Director Development

Jo Clark

Associate Director Strategic Land

Background Highlights Emerging Reflections

• 1. Background & Timeline
• Planning promotion through Structure Plan (2003), Local Plan (2006), Area

Development Framework (2006) and working with the Council and community on these.

• Outline application (2006)– key issues: affordable housing, allotment

provision within the development. Local Plan compliant so development west

• f Brook only.
• Planning permission (2010) – planning conditions – various site-wide

strategies required eg play, art, drainage, nature conservation, phasing, plus Design Code

Area Development Framework

Cambridge Southern Fringe

• 2. Some Highlights
• Strategic works including wetland
• Spine road with semi-mature trees
• Hobson’s Square
• High quality architecture
• Public art
• Community involvement

Strategic Works – Before the housebuilding

Establishing the Setting

Public Realm – Involving Local People

120 acre Country Park

Country Park

Public Art – Bird Screens

Hobson’s Square – Public Art

PHOTOS TO BE INSERTED

Public Art – Community Building

Hobson’s Square – Researching the materials

Hobson’s Square – Early establishment

Hobson’s Square today

Public buildings

• 3. Emerging features & facilities

Play Strategy – ongoing and skate park to be built in summer-autumn

Emerging features and facilities

Emerging – Community Garden

Community Garden

Community Garden

More public art and strategic cycleway

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• WSP has been delivering a Residential Travel Plan (RTP) at

Great Kneighton for past seven years.

• The RTP’s aim is to reduce number of single occupancy car

trips by residents and visitors of the development.

• To encourage sustainable travel every new household can

apply for:

• Four weeks free bus travel and
• One years free Zipcar membership & £50 driving credit
• Uptake of the free bus travel offer has been strong with 25% of

households applying.

• The Zipcar has recently been relocated to Hobson Square.

This move has been positive with a number of bookings made already.

• Annual monitoring surveys show the development to be

exceeding the RTP’s mode share target for single occupancy car travel (26% of residents commute via car VS a target of 32%).

Update on Residential Travel Plan

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• Undertook travel survey in

November / December 2018.

• 237 responses
• Bicycle is the most common

mode of travel for the majority

• f journey purposes.
• Main issues raised:
• Cost, frequency, reliability

and restrictive operating hours of bus services.

• Safety of cycle routes
• Results provided to

Cambridgeshire County Council.

• Next survey in Autumn 2019.

2018 Travel Survey Results

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• To ensure longer term benefits of the Travel Plan continue, we are

now seeking a phased transfer of responsibility for the Residential Travel Plan to a residents association or community group over the next two years.

• The Travel Plan Coordinator role would involve:
• Providing residents and visitors with advice on sustainable

travel options.

• Monitoring residents travel patterns through annual surveys.
• Reporting back to Cambridgeshire County Council’s travel

planning team on any sustainable travel planning issues.

• The hand over would be upon occupation of the final dwelling (end
• f WSP’s current contract).
• If you or your organisation would be interested in taking on this

responsibility, please contact your Travel Plan Coordinator: Email: Edward.Shortridge@wsp.com Tel: 01223 558 050

Transfer of Travel Plan to Residents

Housebuilding Update

Delivery of high quality, coherent urban design with sense of place and good connectivity to the wider area both in terms of integration to existing community and more widely.

• Over 1,000 completions by Countryside, with a further circa 270 units to be delivered.
• Delivery of Public Open Space, including many play areas, across all phases.
• Legal Agreements being progressed for adoption of roads and drainage. Ongoing liaison

with Cambridgeshire Highways and Anglian Water respectively.

• Handover of public open spaces. Ongoing liaison with Cambridge City Council.
• Novo development – handover of POS complete.
• Immanent land transfers for POS across Abode (southern developments)
• Transfers for Aura (northern developments) being progressed this summer.
• Parcel 8 – final house-building parcel work ongoing

Parcel 8 – Final Housebuilding Phase

Key Facts

• Two phases of mixed tenure dwellings including 40% affordable housing,

967m2 commercial (retail) space and public open space.

• First occupations February 2019.
• Show house opened in May 2019. First private occupations from July 2019.
• Four commercial units – possible uses include restaurant and supermarket.

Marketing activities ongoing and construction in progress.

• Project completion is anticipated to be late 2022.

Parcel 8 – Final Housebuilding Phase

Clay Farm/Great Kneighton, Cambridge

• 4. Reflections

Very proud of what we have all achieved here, one of our ‘landmark schemes’ which we take a lot of people to and residents enjoy living in this vibrant community

• Success very much a result of close collaborative working between developer

and Councils, City and County Councils. Plus positive inputs from resident groups including Trumpington Residents Association.

• But, what have we learnt, would we do anything differently?

Reflections

Open space provision – at Clay Farm the majority of open space – the country park – is separate from the housing (show on plan) rather than integrated. Fantastic space

Reflections

Community facilities – provided relatively late in the day due to central position, required as best relationship to existing Trumpington and construction activity/agreed phasing starting from ‘both ends’ ie off Long Road and Addenbrooke’s Road Connections to and from Trumpington village

Reflections – Lessons Learnt

Design of housing – quite homogenous at Clay Farm (and somewhat across the Southern Fringe). A function of the Design Code? A strong design-led local planning authority? Elsewhere on our large sites today tend to provide more

• f a mix of designs.

Multi award winning

Reflections

Award Winning Architecture - Abode

Award Winning Architecture - Aura

Country Park - Wildlife

GREAT KNEIGHTON COUNTRY PARK - BIRDLIFE

Final thoughts

• A master developer committed to delivering high quality communities
• A development team committed to the project and involved long-term
• A collaborative approach with Cambridge City Council
• Early investment in community and physical infrastructure and landscaping
• Attention to detail – high quality materials
• A good relationship with Trumpington Residents Association
• Involvement of existing local communities
• Success of Cambridge Southern Fringe Community Forum

Thank you