Whilst we support the Shared Planning Service’s approach to increase the amount of growth anticipated within the region, over and above the minimum identified by the standard methodology, we believe that the level of economic growth that is anticipated in the plan period is far greater than allowed for.
Both the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Devolution Deal and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Economic Review both indicate higher levels of growth should be planned for the Greater Cambridge area in the next plan period.
Furthermore, the Oxford-Cambridge Arc ambition is to create 1,000,000 jobs before 2050, this needs to be considered in more depth. The Greater Cambridge Area has a key role to play in creating these jobs and this should be factored in when analysing the anticipated economic growth of the area.