Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

We are taking the opportunity to comment on this Local Plan consultation. We welcome the spatial cooperation between the Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District. The consultation document sets out clearly how the area is embedded in wider strategic arrangements. We would like to talk to you about the strategic integration with the next phase of the Non-Statutory Spatial Framework for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority area as well as spatial investigations related to the Oxford Cambridge Arc and related strategic collaboration opportunities. The economic linkages to London, in particular through the UK Innovation Corridor, supported by the London-Stansted-Cambridge-Consortium, are highlighted and provide a good mechanism to facilitate collaboration. Greater Cambridge is located within the corresponding new London Plan Strategic Infrastructure Priority ‘West Anglia Mainline, Crossrail 2 North (London - Stansted – Cambridge – Peterborough) and M11’ (see Policy SD3 and Figure 2.15). Two orbital Strategic Infrastructure Priorities affecting Greater Cambridge are also mentioned: • East West Rail and new Expressway road link (Oxford – Cambridge) • Felixstowe – Nuneaton / Midlands and A14 The evidence for this new joint Plan– including on housing and employment need and supply - has not been established yet. Potential growth options are set out clearly, although the different scale for growth associated with them should explicitly be included. We welcome the consideration of additional housing provision beyond the local housing need to support the area’s economic growth potential. In terms of housing need, it should be noted that our demographic modelling provides alternative population and household projections that could be taken into account when applying the standardised housing need approach. Our projections include consistent outputs for all local authorities in England and form the basis for housing need in the draft new London Plan. They are available on the London Datastore: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/projections. If you would like to discuss the matters raised above further, please contact xx

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