Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from Councillor Cahn, (Councillor Garvie attended as an alternate), Councillor R. Williams and Councillor Flaubert provided apologies for lateness.

The minutes of the meeting held on 22 January 2025 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

Temporary Modular Building to accommodate Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (MICL).

Members raised the comments/questions as listed below. Answers were supplied, and comments from Officers but as this was a pre-application presentation, none of the answers or comments are binding on either the intended applicant or the local planning authority so consequently are not recorded in these minutes.

1.    Asked why a temporary building was being proposed.

2.    Queried if there would be any displacement parking.

3.    Asked what the plans were for the existing building.

4.    Asked if the proposals would comply with the requirements set out in the draft Cambridge Biomedical Campus Supplementary Planning Document (CBCSPD) which had recently been out for consultation.

5.    Asked for information about laboratory design and environmental management considerations.

6.    Asked if any amenity space would be provided for employees?

7.    Asked if extraction fans / flues / noise would affect the adjacent John Van Geest Building located on the site. 

8.    Asked if the proposed fencing around the temporary building would touch the building, if so, would it result in a risk to blocking light into the windows.

9.    Asked if more cycling parking would be provided and where this would be located.

10.  Queried how the vertical planting would be maintained.

11.  Asked when work on the CBCSPD Masterplan would be completed.

12.  Noted the proposal was for a temporary building and asked what the Developer’s plans were for the site once any proposed temporary permission, if granted expired.

13.  Could the proposed temporary building be re-purposed after any planning permission expired.  

14.  Asked when the Forvie site Masterplan would be completed.

15.  Asked if the flat roof would be a biodiverse roof.