Comment

Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

Representation ID: 57192

Received: 10/12/2021

Respondent: European Property Ventures (Cambridgeshire)

Agent: Claremont Planning Consultancy

Representation Summary:

Policy S/JH should adequately address the housing and employment requirements for the plan area. Greater Cambridge should reconsider planning for a higher quantum of housing

Full text:

Policy S/JH should adequately address the housing and employment requirements for the plan area. Greater Cambridge should reconsider planning for a higher quantum of housing. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Economic Review (CPIER) has recognised that the Combined Authority of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has experienced a higher rate of economic growth than forecast. This is a significant factor that Greater Cambridge must consider and should therefore ensure that a significantly higher number of homes are planned for. If the economic trend is to continue within the Plan area as established in the CPIER report, it would be a failure of the plan’s statutory requirement to make sufficient provision of housing to address the increases in economic growth that is forecast.