The plans should incorporate even less focus on the Green Belt and villages than they currently do. Greater focus on new settlements / communities and expanded development of existing sites is the most appropriate way to deliver increased housing stock.

The potential of existing projects within the Cambridge city limits should be maximised. However, growth in new settlements such as Cambourne, Waterbeach and Northstowe, which can be designed with excellent transport links (including East-West Rail) are by far the best approach to increased housing delivery. They offer a blank canvas with which to design climate friendly and enjoyable living spaces within suitable locations. They do not place a development burden on existing villages, damaging these locations irreparably for those already living there. They can also be sited (as has been done with Cambourne, Waterbeach and Northstowe) outside of the Green Belt.
A carefully considered design incorporating suitable levels of facilities and open spaces is clearly important. Locating new jobs in these areas, for example through adjoining new business parks would appear a good way to help achieve climate friendly objectives and increase the attractiveness of these new communities to would-be residents.

SCDC’s recognition the First Proposals that the plan should include very limited (or ideally no) development in existing villages is fully supported. Even where villages have good public transport connections, this objective should still apply: good public transport connections is not unique to any of these villages. In fact, public transport links within Cambridge and from new settelements are in general at least as strong.
I am not in favour of any development, and certainly not on any kind of significant scale in any local villages. Above all though, villages within the Green Belt should be spared from any further development and villages to the north of Cambridge are less attractive for any form of development given the existing imbalance of new jobs vs. new housing, which clearly points to more development south of Cambridge being the overwhelming priority.