Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

2.85 See response to Q42.

2.86 See response to Q42.

2.87 See response to Q42.

2.88 Nothing to add at this stage.

2.89 Nothing to add at this stage.

No choices made

We disagree with the suggestion of prioritisation. All of these big themes fall within the overarching theme of sustainable development and within one of the three objectives of sustainable development. As stated in Paragraph 8 of the NPPF, “Achieving sustainable development means that the planning system has three overarching objectives [economic, social and environmental], which are interdependent and need to be pursued in mutually supportive ways (so that opportunities can be taken to secure net gains across each of the different objectives):…”. Therefore, national guidance expects all of the objectives of sustainable development to be considered jointly, with no priority given to one objective over another. The emerging GCLP will need to balance all three objectives of sustainable development, and as such balance all of the big themes too.