It is agreed that the rate and position of new development should be governed by local need, and by local we are referring to local jobs to reduce travel to work times and, more importantly, to be more sustainable.

We note that previous plans, that many large scale developments have been included mainly to the North of Cambridge (e.g. Northstowe, Marleigh, Waterbeach and Darwin Green) the last of which was included in the 2008 Plan but Darwin Green within the parish of Impington) has still not had a single house built. Unfortunately, the major growth in jobs has occurred to the South of the City, primarily on the Biomedical campus. This requires increased traffic to work through and around Cambridge City. We understand the new Plan can not undo the previous allocations even though they by their location offend against the sustainable development location ideals incorporated in the draft plan. However, we would expect there to be new policies in the new local plan to outweigh the negative effects by placing more stringent requirements on developers for sustainability criteria.