Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 57583
Received: 10/12/2021
Respondent: Mr Richard Pargeter
I applaud the desire to minimise environmental impact, and therefore to avoid encouraging “lots of new homes in places where car travel is the easiest or only way to get around”. However, this plan should also be aiming to reduce the environmental impact of transport, and to that end public transport to villages needs to be significantly improved.
In many villages car transport will nevertheless have to remain a mainstay of local transport, and if there is a significant move to electric vehicles, the plan needs to ensure that the electricity supply infrastructure is sufficient to meet this need.
I applaud the desire to minimise environmental impact, and therefore to avoid encouraging “lots of new homes in places where car travel is the easiest or only way to get around”. However, this plan should also be aiming to reduce the environmental impact of transport, and to that end public transport to villages needs to be significantly improved.
In many villages car transport will nevertheless have to remain a mainstay of local transport, and if there is a significant move to electric vehicles, the plan needs to ensure that the electricity supply infrastructure is sufficient to meet this need.