tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985711776365144891.post2637503132519508596..comments2023-05-19T11:22:45.301+01:00Comments on Your Coleridge Conservative Action Team: Developers Present Plans for New HotelChris Howellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00788153276499154335noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985711776365144891.post-9296943653613089242010-08-27T11:58:04.179+01:002010-08-27T11:58:04.179+01:00Hi Equinox,
The hotel, although in the station ar...Hi Equinox,<br /><br />The hotel, although in the station area, is a separate site so I don't think is part of the CB1 masterplans that received outline planning permission. <br /><br />The student accommodation however is very much part of the CB1 plans, so agreement was already made in principle for hundreds of student dwellings in the station area in 2008 when CB1 got outline planning permission - my views on the CB1 outline plans haven't changed much since then - they are trying to fit too much into a small space, with too little open space, too little land area dedicated to transport infrastructure, and have optimistic assessments of the extent to which car movements and car parking is likely to increase in the wider area.<br /><br />The first detailed application for the student dwellings covered blocks by the railways and adjacent to the Warren Close flats (with a bus terminus squeezed in between the two (sets of) blocks) - this was refused. <br /><br />As the masterplan is developed through a series of these detailed planning applications for individual buildings, I think we will start to see the problems of making detailed designs work within the masterplan - be interesting to see how it pans out.Chris Howellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00788153276499154335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985711776365144891.post-7286247766374876952010-08-26T23:10:17.527+01:002010-08-26T23:10:17.527+01:00There's also been a proposal for lots of stude...There's also been a proposal for lots of student units 500+ on the station road site. <br /><br />What's your take on that development?Equinoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985711776365144891.post-69348539548320710572010-08-10T21:43:01.398+01:002010-08-10T21:43:01.398+01:00Something tells me that residents' permits wil...Something tells me that residents' permits will in the longer term be the only way to deal with this.<br /><br />That is unless a proposed railway station at Chesterton goes ahead and they decide to build a similar hotel there.<br /><br />Talking about trains and things, feel free to have a look at http://www.systemed.net/atlas/ and cascade to all and sundry - it's a map of the UK rail network pre-Beeching - and has lots of interesting ideas that, developments-not-getting-in-the-way-permitting has lots of options on what lines could be reopened.<br /><br />Not that this will happen anytime soon but I am jumping up and down for the reopening of the Oxford-Cambridge rail link.Equinoxnoreply@blogger.com