Greater Cambridge Shared Planning

Comment

Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options

Representation ID: 59579

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)

Representation Summary:

We are puzzled by Policy CC/CS: Supporting land-based carbon sequestration while supporting the
principles. There is very little undrained peat in South Cambridgeshire or Cambridge City.
Could this be the policy that is aimed at justifying re-flooding the Fens due to the effects of greenhouse gas
emissions and increased run-off which the level of increased construction will cause?

Full text:

Climate change – Supporting land-based carbon sequestration
64. We are puzzled by Policy CC/CS: Supporting land-based carbon sequestration while supporting the
principles. There is very little undrained peat in South Cambridgeshire or Cambridge City.
65. Could this be the policy that is aimed at justifying re-flooding the Fens due to the effects of greenhouse gas
emissions and increased run-off which the level of increased construction will cause?

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