Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 57907
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
There is fear in communities in the south, along the A1301 corridor, of a process of urbanisation from Stapleford to Saffron Walden. Major planning applications have been considered on a standalone basis, with scant consideration for cumulative or incremental impacts on landscape and existing settlements. A moratorium is required on proposals for large developments in the upper Cam valley. Water usage/stress, landscape impacts, and impacts on the fragile river/chalk stream environment to be reassessed once developments already permitted, or planned for in the current process or the Adopted Plan, are in place. Cross-border liaison under Duty to Cooperate is required.
There is fear in communities in the south, along the A1301 corridor, of a process of urbanisation from Stapleford to Saffron Walden. Major planning applications have been considered on a standalone basis, with scant consideration for cumulative or incremental impacts on landscape and existing settlements. A moratorium is required on proposals for large developments in the upper Cam valley. Water usage/stress, landscape impacts, and impacts on the fragile river/chalk stream environment to be reassessed once developments already permitted, or planned for in the current process or the Adopted Plan, are in place. Cross-border liaison under Duty to Cooperate is required.