Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

The Local Plan is madness, pure and simple. How on earth can Cambridge remain even remotely sustainable, still less habitable in any real sense, if its growth continues in such a reckless fashion? At some point or other the various authorities responsible for this ill-considered over-expansion of the city and its environs will be forced to realise that, despite all their fine words and empty assurances, Cambridge – and much of Cambridgeshire – cannot reasonably support this level of growth and they will have to think again. The supply of water here is already critical, for example, and the volumes of road traffic are ridiculous and unlikely to be reduced without drastic action involving vastly improved public transport and congestion charging. This plan is an environmental disaster waiting to happen. I was born here (in 1953) and have known the city all my life and lived in it for well over thirty years. What is happening here is just a continuing tragedy in slow motion.