Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

As well as the outlined methods, collect interested residents and businesses emails and keep them informed, encourage comments/questions and respond in a timely manner. Hold a large forum 2/3 times a year to update residents/businesses on progress and take onboard comments – two-way dialogue. Establish a working group that includes residents/businesses to guide the project. Provide an easy read summary of documents to enable wider participation.

Agree

No answer given

Agree

Agreed Also, where business parks, employment areas or centres of liesure are identified that might impact neighbouring areas, i.e. traffic, housing, etc.

Agree

Agree. Infrastructure provision has historically lagged behind community need. Developing communities have suffered because community facilities have not been delivered in time to meet the need. This can led to a lack of community cohesion, lack of inclusiveness, potential increase in anti-social behaviour and a lack of a ‘sense of place’.

Wellbeing and Social Inclusion, Great Places, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Green Spaces

Ensure developments maximise energy conservation initiatives, dwellings have the highest standards of energy conservation and recycling (water, etc). Introduce subsidised electric cycle provision in larger developments. Use local waste to generate power locally via a contained system that does away with refuse lorries. Promote electric powered public transport. Negotiate affordable public transport fares. Encourage car sharing schemes. For larger developments, have a transport strategy that considers minimalising the journeys of developer’s plant. Identify areas suitable for PV panels, wind turbines and hedge/tree planting. Promote charging points. Encourage schools to address climate change, energy conservation and recycling issues. Take a holistic view of the Local Plan, not a piecemeal approach. How do developments impact the whole region? How do they impact each other? Encourage everyone to recognise how climate change affects them individually and what they can do personally to mitigate it. In liaison with other bodies, encourage healthy communities – physical exercise, social interaction, communal events, peaceful places, intergenerational befriending and general befriending schemes. Ensure communities are designed to be people friendly, dementia friendly and take account of disabled people’s needs.

Ensure your buildings don’t waste energy and encourage business to review how they use their energy. See above.

Yes, strongly agree

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Run a series of events in schools and communities informing people rationally about climate change, what communities and individuals can do to help themselves and your strategy/initiates as community leaders. You refer to water and food security but omit energy security.

Developments should be mandated to provide and/or enhance a specified amount of habitat for indigenous species. The impact of development on watercourses – volume, direction, etc, should have greater priority. Better grey water management, specifically individual dwelling and/or local recycling should be advanced. More areas should be left wild to encourage biodiversity and not unnecessarily manicured.