Comment

Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

Representation ID: 57981

Received: 12/12/2021

Respondent: Cambridge Doughnut Economics Action Group

Representation Summary:

There is no limit in the plan on individual scheme sizes on the edge of town. The plan should set out more clearly the requirements on developers to provide better space access and community area.

Full text:

There is no limit in the plan on individual scheme sizes on the edge of town. The plan should set out more clearly the requirements on developers to provide better space access and community areas: lessons should be learned from developments like GB1 and GB2 where there will be over 400 properties with NO facilities for inhabitants and poor access routes for pedestrians and cyclists (ie low-carbon transit). As a result In GB1 and GB2 the Council is now in the invidious position of having to mildly request the developers to improve on this – a request so far ignored by the developers. This is not compatible with the stated aim of the plan to build houses which minimise transport and of building new communities.