Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 58167
Received: 13/12/2021
Respondent: Dr Stephen Kennedy
"Supporting the nationally important Cambridge Biomedical Campus, including through a limited release of land from the Green Belt". This doesn't make sense. The proposed release is land that is half a mile from the current edge of the Campus. That isn't a coherent development policy ensuring a dense, efficient Campus, but a sprawl across a mile of land that currently supports a wide range of wildlife and provides an essential green boundary to the city. Force the Campus to use efficiently the area it already has and then consider Green Belt release in a future Local Plan.
"Supporting the nationally important Cambridge Biomedical Campus, including through a limited release of land from the Green Belt". This doesn't make sense. The proposed release is land that is half a mile from the current edge of the Campus. That isn't a coherent development policy ensuring a dense, efficient Campus, but a sprawl across a mile of land that currently supports a wide range of wildlife and provides an essential green boundary to the city. Force the Campus to use efficiently the area it already has and then consider Green Belt release in a future Local Plan.