Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 56555
Received: 23/11/2021
Respondent: Mr Mark Brinkley
Nowhere is the basic methodology of household formation questioned. 80% of jobs created by new homebuilding are service jobs, largely servicing the new residents. Thus of the 58,000 projected new jobs, only 11,600 will be in the Value Added category of hi-tech/bio med. And many of these will not require a 5 day a week presence. With improved rail connections, many of these hi-tech workers could be housed in existing communities up to two hours away, which would spread the envisioned prosperity. Cambridge can grow economically without a huge housebuilding programme, with its attendant water and embodied carbon issues.
Nowhere is the basic methodology of household formation questioned. 80% of jobs created by new homebuilding are service jobs, largely servicing the new residents. Thus of the 58,000 projected new jobs, only 11,600 will be in the Value Added category of hi-tech/bio med. And many of these will not require a 5 day a week presence. With improved rail connections, many of these hi-tech workers could be housed in existing communities up to two hours away, which would spread the envisioned prosperity. Cambridge can grow economically without a huge housebuilding programme, with its attendant water and embodied carbon issues.