Comment

Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

Representation ID: 58409

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Marshall Group Properties

Agent: Quod

Representation Summary:

The importance of the main sustainability and climate change objectives in the ‘First Proposals’ is such that the spatial strategy of the Plan must optimise sustainable choices adjacent to Cambridge rather than dispersing growth and encouraging increased travel. By optimising development at Cambridge East, this allows the plan to avoid the need to plan development in less sustainable locations.

Full text:

The importance of the main sustainability and climate change objectives in the ‘First Proposals’ is such that the spatial strategy of the Plan must optimise sustainable choices adjacent to Cambridge rather than dispersing growth and encouraging increased travel. By optimising development at Cambridge East, this allows the plan to avoid the need to plan development in less sustainable locations.