Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

Ensure it is protected, linked and accessible to all of the community.

Develop an ecological viability standard.

Yes, strongly agree

No answer given

Compile data of areas that are socially and/or financially and/or educationally and/or culturally impoverished. Identify causes, including local forum and individual discussions. Establish strategies to design them out and mitigate existing issues.

Communities should be fully involved, welcomed, valued and supported to be full partners in the development of their communities and not disregarded at a whim.

Learn from experience. Review consultation methods – how do you consult marginalised and disenfranchised members of a community?

Build ‘Lifetime Homes’. Have informal, casual social interaction places, i.e. town squares, seating areas, external performance/exercise spaces. markets, etc. Variety of green spaces, play and leisure areas and ‘blue collar’ employment opportunities. Community Development Officers to organise initial community activities and events. Ensure the built and landscaped environment is accessible to all. Promote and incentivise healthy lifestyles.

Establish base-line data, have monitoring stations, be perscriptive with developers and businesses – set standards. Work with Health bodies.

It is a vital tool in preserving the unique character of Greater Cambridge. It should ensure that an areas appearance and vistas are maintained. Don’t just pay lip service to the concept of ‘well designed’ new buildings. Too many bland and uninspiring buildings are accepted; have higher understood standards/

Afford them ‘protected status’, only allow encroachment in exceptional circumstances. Cambridge’s heritage is what makes it Cambridge, once over built it loses its identity.