Question 4. Do you agree that planning to 2040 is an appropriate date in the future to plan for? If not, what would be a more appropriate date and why?
2040 is appropriate but we need to be incredibly careful that we do not get complacent about the zero carbon 2050 goal (which should be brought forward to 2040 anyway, we do not need or have 30 years to deal with this crisis). If 2040 is to be the right date then we really need to be aiming for zero carbon by then, anticipating that any goal is likely to be overshot.
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Climate change would put greater pressure on the local development and we need to take this into account. I would say that 2050. But also looking forward and monitoring the development of the climate.
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There are currently lots of unknowns. Will the Oxford-Cambridge Arc happen? Will the target date for carbon neutrality be brought forward? Will the relevant authorities ever agree on a transportation plan for Greater Cambridge? etc, etc. As answers emerge, the local plans will have to be modified accordingly. Also, we need to act quickly on climate change. I propose that the plan should end in 2035, half-way to the current carbon neutral target of 2050, with the aim of maximising progress towards carbon neutrality in the next 15 years.
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Agree. This accords with paragraph 22 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF 2019) which advises that strategic policies should look ahead over a minimum 15-year period from adoption.
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• Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. • Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040.
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Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council I urge you to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling.
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• Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. • Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040.
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2025. Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council they need to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling, walking and mobility scooters. Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must radically shift away from cars well before 2040.
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Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040. • Development sites must support the sustainable transport goals of shifting the vast majority of everyday travel out of cars and into walking, cycling and public transport. • If it is not possible to produce a realistic Transport Assessment achieving that goal, then the site must be rejected. • It is important that sustainable transport is not only considered within the site but also the connections to the transport network and other sites. • Transport cannot be looked at in a silo. Transport, including cycling, is integral to planning of new developments and must be considered from the very start.
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• Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. • Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040. Not later than 2030.
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Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040.
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It seems arbitrary to decide to plan until 2040. I am also not sure how any changes to the local plan for this period, once decided on, will be made if there are changes to circumstances in the next 20 years, which presumably there be.
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According to the IPCC, we need to greatly reduce CO2 emissions well before 2030 (IPCC, 2018). • Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. • Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040. • Therefore, very powerful decarbonisation and demotorisation strategies need to be implemented within the next 5–10 years, and on development proposals this needs to occur straight away. Planning for 2040 will be too late. “Pathways limiting global warming to 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot would require rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems (high confidence) [. . .] Avoiding overshoot and reliance on future large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) can only be achieved if global CO2 emissions start to decline well before 2030 (high confidence).” (IPCC, 2018) “Incentives alone may not be enough to encourage developers to incorporate higher sustainability standards. Therefore it is essential that strong climate change mitigation and adaptation policies are developed as part of the Local Development Framework. Policies should set specific targets as far as it is reasonable to do so. They should also be future proofed as far as possible, for rising standards over time, especially for large sites with long build out periods, so that they do not become rapidly out of date.” (Cambridge City Council, 2009)
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Earler than 2040 would be better because we need act quickly. the goverment deadline for being carbon neutral by 2050 is too late. i understand that these things take time, but we don't actually have that much time.
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Given the climate emergency, a shift away from cars to a more sustainable forms of transport must be done quickly and well before 2040
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Timescale 2050 to match both councils’ zero carbon target. Indeed Q8 talks about how to achieve ZC by 2050. Also if CPCA is developing LTP and NSSF phase 2 to 2050 then it makes sense to synchronise. If this plan extends only to 2040 then what interim carbon reduction target are we planning to meet by then? The councils should agree on a common 2040 target and the plan should state this carbon reduction target relative to 1990 in the usual way (and discuss how the plan will help to achieve it).
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• Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. • Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040.
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• Given that a climate emergency has been declared by both the South Cambridgeshire District Council and the Cambridge City Council we urge them to take swift action to transition the Cambridge region to sustainable transport including cycling. • Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040.
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• There is a climate emergency - swift action is needed especially regarding transport. We need cycling, walking and others sustainable modes of transport to be prioritised as soon as is earthly possible. • Local Plan strategies for cycling and public transportation (which include understanding where and how new developments should be located and designed) must assume a radical shift away from cars well before 2040.
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Planning to 2040 seems appropriate because other factors might change substantially over a longer timescale rendering the new Local Plan less relevant. 2040 shouldn't have seen so many changes in terms of the local economy.
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Due to climate change, the world in which we live is going to change beyond comprehension. Planning. I feel we should be planning for achievable short term goals in all aspects of the local plan. The plan should be renewed every 4 years. How can we plan for growth into 2040 when we are unsure of the climate. Then local plan for 2040 includes a certain number of houses and will include a certain percentage of growth. Can we support the people thy are included in this growth if we have crop failures and we can’t feed them. Can we support the people included in that growth if we are in drought and the supply of water is outstripped by demand. Can we truly support an extra 30,000 people in this already water stressed part of the country.
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We would suggest a plan period of 15 years from the date of adoption of the new Local Plan. If that is what the two planning authorities have in mind, then it is disappointing to note that it is expected to take 5 years for a new plan to be adopted. We do not fully understand, and it is not explained, why the start date is 2017. This should be set out in the next stage of the Local Plan.
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It is good to have a short-term plan, but we also need a plan for long-term sustainability, e.g. How can we pass on a habitable Cambridge to the next 7 generations? Key issues being not draining our aquifer, not choking on air pollution, not being under the sea, etc. These need to be major considerations of the short-term plan.
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In consideration of the ne zreo target for 2050, we need to have a plan for 2050. How will we know we are on track for 2050. Obviously much of this needs to be enacted at a national level, but local issues will have an increasingly important role to play. In reaching net zero by 2050, some communities will have to acheived their own contributions earlier and some later. Cambridge has a knowledge economy (cf industrial base), significant concentration of institutional power withint the city (university and several v large employers) , high cycling rates, and better than average transport infrastructure for a town of this size. It is therefore better placed than most to make a contribution so that its own actions are all in place before 2050. However, going early has risks and costs. We need to see a full analysis of the options - and this can only be done if 2050 is the timeframe.
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Savills (UK) Ltd are instructed by St John’s College, Cambridge to make the necessary submissions to the Council’s consultation “The First Conversation” as part of the Issues and Options consultation process for a new Greater Cambridge Local Plan. The College is a significant landowner in and around Cambridge and accordingly needs to make the necessary representations to the Councils in respect of its assets and on other relevant planning policy issues that will arise in the context of any new development plan for the two administrative areas of South Cambridgeshire and Cambridge City. St John’s College, Cambridge strongly supports the need for a review of both Local Plans for the City and the surrounding South Cambridgeshire district despite the fact that both were only recently adopted in 2018. It is certainly the case that there is a need to review not least because of the Inspectors’ clear views expressed in their report to the last lengthy Local Plan Examination which places the onus on both local authorities to move forward with a review and proceed towards Submission by the end of Summer 2022. A Call for Sites stage was undertaken in early 2019 and on the basis of those submissions, we feel the Councils are now in a position to critically analyse those sites having regard to a framework for plan preparation which must meet the above timetable. In terms of the end date of the Local Plan, we are aware that the Combined Authorities Non-Spatial Strategy end date is for 2050 which is some 30 years from now. With the experiences of planning policies being developed in and around the Cambridge area, it is quite clear that needs, demands and circumstances fluctuate even within short periods of time and thus there is concern that moving a Local Plan period out to 2050 provides no realistic strategic direction having regard to a whole series of external factors affecting planning strategy including policies, politics and economics. A plan period to 2040 in our view provides a more realistic timeframe for the consideration of strategic policies and thus the College supports an end date of 2040 which is consistent with National Planning Policy which states that development plans should look ahead at least 15 years from the point of adoption.
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This is consistent with paragraph 22 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF 2019) which advises that strategic policies should look ahead over a minimum 15-year period from adoption.
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Whilst the NPPF requires that strategic policies should have a minimum 15 year time horizon on adoption, there would be considerable merit in strategic policies looking beyond this time period to 2050. The development plan system provides for policies to be reviewed every 5 years and hence if there are significant changes in circumstances that would be picked up during a review of strategic policies and trigger an updating of the plan. Planning to 2050 would provide a clear direction and base and would simply mean that in future the plan making process can focus on allocating land to meet agreed development needs, rather than revising and debating growth levels. That would greatly speed up plan making. We also consider there is a practical reason to look further ahead. The local plan will need to be adopted by March 2025 to provide a 15 year horizon to 2040. Experience suggests that such a timetable will be challenging and may not be achieved. It would be disappointing to get close to adoption only to find that there will not be a 15 year time horizon on adoption and hence further work required, delaying adoption further. We consider it would be prudent therefore to plan to 2050.
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Savills (UK) Ltd are instructed by Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (Grosvenor) to make the necessary submissions to the Council’s consultation “The First Conversation” as part of the Issues and Options Consultation process for a new Greater Cambridge Local Plan. Grosvenor Britain and Ireland (Grosvenor) have land interests at the Abbey Stadium, home to Cambridge United Football Club and consequently it is entirely appropriate at this stage to raise a number of issues in response to particular questions posed within the consultation document. We would acknowledge at this stage the need for a review of both Local Plans for the City and the surrounding South Cambridgeshire District given that both were recently adopted in 2018. It is our case that there is certainly a need to review not least because of the Inspectors clear views expressed in their report to the last Examination which places the responsibility on both of the Counci to have a single Local Plan submitted to the Secretary of State by summer 2022. This will clearly involve a substantial amount of research and work but it represents an entirely appropriate approach having regard to the symbiotic relationship between the built up area of this city and the rural area surrounding it. We are aware that a Call for Sites stage was undertaken in early 2019 and Grosvenor made the necessary submissions to that consultation stage. We are expecting the Local Planning Authorities to be publishing all of those representations in due course since it is imperative that the Councils assess all of the various development options to accommodate growth in and around the Cambridge area. As such, a critical analysis must be made of all the sites and to move forward with a review in order to meet with the above timetable as put forward by the Local Plan Inspectors. In terms of the end date of the Local Plan, we are aware that the Combined Authority’s Non-statutory Spatial Strategy end date is 2050 which is some 30 years from now. This is a lengthy timescale within which to develop strategic policies and having regard to our experience, it is quite clear that the needs, demands and circumstances fluctuate considerably in short timeframes and thus an end date of 2050 in our view provides no realistic timescale in circumstances which clearly will change over that period. The plan period to 2040 in our view is a much more sustainable plan period for policies to be applied and with an acceptance that early review will need to come forward as a matter of course.
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Agree Huntingdonshire District Council concur that 2040 is an appropriate date for this plan period given the level of uncertainty over the routing and delivery timeframes of major transport infrastructure projects including CAM Metro, East-West Rail and the Oxford to Cambridge expressway. We consider that it may be appropriate for the next plan review to consider a longer plan period promoting large scale strategic sites to reflect these opportunities.
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