Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 59202
Received: 13/12/2021
Respondent: Mrs Catherine Martin
This policy is not being adhered to - the full carbon cost of the NEC site is not described. Claiming the NEC is the most sustainable brownfield site is disingenuous because it isn't a brownfield site - it has a recently upgraded, fully operational sewage plant on the site, and a range of industrial/commercial businesses. The area is being turned into a brownfield site by destroying the plant and moving the businesses. The carbon cost of destroying the plant, decontaminating, digging new tunnelling and constructing a new plant, less than a mile away is extremely carbon intensive and wasteful.
This policy is not being adhered to - the full carbon cost of the NEC site is not described. Claiming the NEC is the most sustainable brownfield site is disingenuous because it isn't a brownfield site - it has a recently upgraded, fully operational sewage plant on the site, and a range of industrial/commercial businesses. The area is being turned into a brownfield site by destroying the plant and moving the businesses. The carbon cost of destroying the plant, decontaminating, digging new tunnelling and constructing a new plant, less than a mile away is extremely carbon intensive and wasteful.