Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 58011
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Cambridge Doughnut Economics Action Group
The proposals focus mostly on features and characteristics of developments that respond to local context or specific functional needs of minority groups. These are aesthetic or function-specific interpretations of “people-responsive” and place.
By contrast, the broader human and psychological needs of communities are much more holistic, and are based on community needs of engagement and political agency: including integrated considerations of life needs, activities, and promotion of connected, coherent, participatory collective spaces.
With the current narrow focus of the proposals, the developments will continue to be heart-less, community-poor, and without a collective spirit of belonging: as most current developments are.
The proposals focus mostly on features and characteristics of developments that respond to local context or specific functional needs of minority groups. These are aesthetic or function-specific interpretations of “people-responsive” and place.
By contrast, the broader human and psychological needs of communities are much more holistic, and are based on community needs of engagement and political agency: including integrated considerations of life needs, activities, and promotion of connected, coherent, participatory collective spaces.
With the current narrow focus of the proposals, the developments will continue to be heart-less, community-poor, and without a collective spirit of belonging: as most current developments are.