Agenda item

Cambridge South Station - New two storey, four platform station on the West Anglia Main adjacent to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, and associated works to the rail infrastructure.

 

Developer: Network Rail

Members raised comments/questions as listed below. Officers gave answers and added comments. 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.

 

i. Asked how much land was lost from Hobson Park for the station and the impact on BNG.

 

ii. Asked where the construction huts would be.

 

iii. Asked why emergency and maintenance assets were not considered for the Eastern side of the site.

 

iv. Asked how bicycles will be taken on the trains. Is it possible to push bicycles to the middle platform.

 

v. Asked if drop off places will be reviewed if they become busy.

 

vi. Asked if the SME bridge had been narrowed in size.

 

vii. Asked if there were 500 bicycle parking spaces on each side.

 

viii. Asked if cameras would be recording for 24 hours a day.

 

ix. Asked whether there would be staff on site at all times.

 

x. Asked how they would manage cyclists going through the pedestrian route rather than the cycling route.

 

xi. Asked how the taxi ranks would be managed.

 

xii. Asked if light levels would be controlled to protect the wildlife at Hobson Park.

 

xiii. Asked if there will be ticket machines.

 

xiv. Asked how the station traffic forecasts had been calculated.

 

xv. With the platforms length being reduced, asked how many carriages can fit on the platform.

 

xvi. Asked how we can make this site sustainable for future needs.

 

xvii. Would like more information of bicycle security.

 

xviii. Would like them to consider improving the lighting in the area.

 

xix. Would like them to include some safety points where you can contact the police and wait safely.

 

xx. Would like them to reconsider the size of the footpaths to make them bigger.

 

xxi. Asked what the philosophy of the station design would be. How is it an exemplar of a modern station.

 

xxii. Would like to see use case studies of how the station is used by people.

 

xxiii. Would like high quality lifts.

 

xxiv. Would like the developers to explain vehicle access from Addenbrookes Road.

 

xxv. Asked if it was correct that the west platform was covered, and the platform on the east was not.

 

xxvi. Asked if they canopy was adequate to cope with the number of passengers waiting for a train on a rainy day and asked if the platform canopy could be extended to cover all of the platform.

 

xxvii. Asked whether future passenger numbers have been considered.

 

xxviii. Asked for a full transport assessment to include details of forecast footfall and origin and destination of passengers.

 

xxix. Asked what the walking distance form railway to buses was. Asked for the frequency of buses.

 

xxx. Asked if they were anticipating 2.4 million passengers per year.

 

xxxi. Asked what the capacity of the station was if there was a missed train.

 

xxxii. Stated it is essential to have CCTV where bicycle racks would be situated.

 

xxxiii. Stated that double stacking bicycle racks are difficult to manage.

 

xxxiv. Asked whether they have considered people using Addenbrookes parking for the train station, which would affect people using the parking for Addenbrookes.

 

xxxv. Would like more bicycle parking added.

 

xxxvi. Asked for a briefing on the usability of the forecourt and specifically how it would work for: pedestrians, cyclists (cycling and parking their cycles securely), and people attending the hospitals requiring a taxi (parked at a taxi rank) or hopper bus (arriving at / departing from a bus stop.