Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

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9.1 The spatial strategy that will inform the new Local Plan must be realistic in ensuring that the housing requirements can be clearly met on appropriate and deliverable sites through the area. In order to achieve the most sustainable form of development, Martin Grant Homes are supportive of the need to provide a range of locations to ensure those advantages listed by q.42 are achieved and benefit a wider population. 9.2 Given the need to potentially provide 66,700 dwellings (although it is noted 36,400 are already in the ’pipeline’), site selection will require a mix of development sites through the options provided. This includes the need for development in the villages. Such an approach follows guidance within paragraph 67 of the NPPF, which seeks planning policies to ‘identify a sufficient supply and mix of sites, taking into account their availability, suitability and likely economic viability’. 9.3 Paragraph 68 of the NPPF highlights the benefits that small and medium sites can make in meeting housing requirements. Such sites are appropriate for village expansion. They play a key role in ensuring early delivery of market and affordable units and as a result assist in allowing authorities to demonstrate a five year housing land supply.