Decision details

To respond to the Highways Agency consultation.

The New Communities Portfolio Holder agreed that Costain Skanska Joint Venture be told that South Cambridgeshire District Council’s response to the proposed draft Traffic Order on the A14 loop road at Girton interchange was as follows:

1.         The Council has no objection in principle to the proposal to retain the A14 west bound loop Road at the Girton Interchange subject to a traffic regulation order restricting access to emergency and maintenance vehicles only.

2.            Landscape mitigation should be extended to the whole of the retained area, which is currently:

·                      A mixture of established scrub and low woodland planting to the central area - there should be management of existing woodland, including new planting / glades / establishment of turf margins to and widening of the existing road verges and planting.

·                      New planting to the western mitigation area.

·                      Established scrub and farmed land at the eastern mitigation area.  The ‘existing pond’ to the east seems to have been filled with vegetation and including areas of scrub (probably shrub willow) - there should be management to re-establish the eastern pond or, if retaining willow, establish a new pond in mitigation area currently farmed.

3.                     Planting to ensure strong links between mitigation areas should be a minimum of 20 metres deep.