Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 57070
Received: 09/12/2021
Respondent: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust
While understanding the potentially sustainable nature of additional development at Cambourne if East-West Rail was to happen, the Wildlife Trust is concerned that some of the natural greenspace and GI benefits from the original Cambourne development could be lost with intensification of the existing development and building on the area allocated as golf course. Cambourne West will already provide significantly less by way of strategic greenspace compared to Cambourne. Any further development at Cambourne will need to ensure that the full strategic natural greenspace needs of an expanded population are met, and not rely on the Wildlife Trust country park.
While understanding the potentially sustainable nature of additional development at Cambourne if East-West Rail was to happen, the Wildlife Trust is concerned that some of the natural greenspace and GI benefits from the original Cambourne development could be lost with intensification of the existing development and building on the area allocated as golf course. Cambourne West will already provide significantly less by way of strategic greenspace compared to Cambourne. Any further development at Cambourne will need to ensure that the full strategic natural greenspace needs of an expanded population are met, and not rely on the Wildlife Trust country park.