Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 57008
Received: 09/12/2021
Respondent: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust
The Wildlife Trust strongly supports this policy along the lines proposed. We welcome the inclusion of the 14 strategic GI priority areas and themes. The provision of significant strategic natural greenspace is essential if Cambridge is to grow sustainably (we have no downland, moorland or coast) and this will need to be significantly funded through new development. The suggestion within the HRA of the use of a Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace standard at 8 Ha / 1000 population is a good start. Current open space standards referred to within BG/PO and BG/EO are woefully inadequate without corresponding strategic GI provision.
The Wildlife Trust strongly supports this policy along the lines proposed. We welcome the inclusion of the 14 strategic GI priority areas and themes. The provision of significant strategic natural greenspace is essential if Cambridge is to grow sustainably (we have no downland, moorland or coast) and this will need to be significantly funded through new development. The suggestion within the HRA of the use of a Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace standard at 8 Ha / 1000 population is a good start. Current open space standards referred to within BG/PO and BG/EO are woefully inadequate without corresponding strategic GI provision.