SUPPORT densification of existing Employment Uses and increase at former sidings and existing brownfield land in an excellent area for increased sustainable travel to work. Support also for some increases in affordable and social housing on land outside existing and in revised WWTW buffer zone since this will assist shortages in both LA’s.
OBJECT to redevelopment all of the existing sewage works area and its buffer zone for high density housing within the Plan period. This now translates to proposals to destroy part of the Green Belt by relocating the Works.
Other modern works in UK have been amended or built to minimise their odour and traffic footprint and allow a much smaller buffer zone (ref Deephams WWTW as one example). A realistic alternative would be to amend the works. The option to relocate the sludge treatment section should be explored (ref Eastbourne WWTW as one example).
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning, in response to the CWWTP Scoping Report, has themselves stated they would like to clarify that the relocation of the Cambridge WWTP is not a “requirement” of the North-East Cambridge Area Action Plan and must not
be referred to as such - see Page 6
https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wpcontent/ipc/uploads/projects/WW010003/WW010003-000028-WW010003%20-%20Scoping%20Opinion.pdf. The Plan must not be ambiguous on this point.
The proposal to create some kind of greenwashed country park as mitigation appears to be an underhand attempt at carbon offsetting on what is much needed, productive, carbon sequestrating farmland.