Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 57790
Received: 11/12/2021
Respondent: Dr Reg Nicholls
This section should include protection of the Geodiversity of the area and many of the strategic Green Infrastructure areas have also a geological dimension.
Builders and developers should be encouraged to facilitate any request from a suitably qualified group / institution to view results of groundworks to identify and record any potential geological features that have been exposed prior to them being covered / destroyed. For example the swales in the Marleigh estate near the airport showed excellent examples of peri-glacial involutions before they were completed and buried.(see image attached)
This section should include protection of the Geodiversity of the area and many of the strategic Green Infrastructure areas have also a geological dimension.
Builders and developers should be encouraged to facilitate any request from a suitably qualified group / institution to view results of groundworks to identify and record any potential geological features that have been exposed prior to them being covered / destroyed. For example the swales in the Marleigh estate near the airport showed excellent examples of peri-glacial involutions before they were completed and buried.(see image attached)