Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020

To improve our environment within a generation and leave it in a better state than we found it will mean that in this area we contribute fully to the creation of a more resilient landscape, with enhanced tree cover, richer in plants and wildlife. This will not happen simply by protecting existing sites, but by identifying where our biodiversity assets and opportunities are; and to prioritise them in land-use planning. This is putting a planning process into a new paradigm, one in which we take an active view of the contribution which areas can make to an overall environmental gain, then to consider the development potential of nominated sites, with a requirement in each case for a net gain from the development proposed. We would welcome this Plan initiating a Cambridge -based Nature Recovery Network, drawing upon examples like the West of England Nature Recovery Network. In doing so the local plan should provide a clear framework and mechanism for new development to be able to contribute to any such District level initiative.

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To improve our environment within a generation and leave it in a better state than we found it will mean that in this area we contribute fully to the creation of a more resilient landscape, with enhanced tree cover, richer in plants and wildlife. This will not happen simply by protecting existing sites, but by identifying where our biodiversity assets and opportunities are; and to prioritise them in land-use planning. This is putting a planning process into a new paradigm, one in which we take an active view of the contribution which areas can make to an overall environmental gain, then to consider the development potential of nominated sites, with a requirement in each case for a net gain from the development proposed. We would welcome this Plan initiating a Cambridge -based Nature Recovery Network, drawing upon examples like the West of England Nature Recovery Network. In doing so the local plan should provide a clear framework and mechanism for new development to be able to contribute to any such District level initiative.

We commend the format of the CDF’s recent workshop as a mechanism for engaging the community with stakeholders and decision- makers; this will include presentations, but also small group discussions and open discussions with an independent moderator. The design workshop result was described in an article by our Chair, and this is attached to our accompanying email. One key process issue was to agree a design guide which is not overly prescriptive and not to produce highly duplicators or, worse, contradictory levels of prescription in the design guide and the planning conditions.

We commend the format of the CDF’s recent workshop as a mechanism for engaging the community with stakeholders and decision- makers; this will include presentations, but also small group discussions and open discussions with an independent moderator. The design workshop result was described in an article by our Chair, and this is attached to our accompanying email. One key process issue was to agree a design guide which is not overly prescriptive and not to produce highly duplicators or, worse, contradictory levels of prescription in the design guide and the planning conditions.

We commend the format of the CDF’s recent workshop as a mechanism for engaging the community with stakeholders and decision- makers; this will include presentations, but also small group discussions and open discussions with an independent moderator. The design workshop result was described in an article by our Chair, and this is attached to our accompanying email. One key process issue was to agree a design guide which is not overly prescriptive and not to produce highly duplicators or, worse, contradictory levels of prescription in the design guide and the planning conditions.

We commend the format of the CDF’s recent workshop as a mechanism for engaging the community with stakeholders and decision- makers; this will include presentations, but also small group discussions and open discussions with an independent moderator. The design workshop result was described in an article by our Chair, and this is attached to our accompanying email. One key process issue was to agree a design guide which is not overly prescriptive and not to produce highly duplicators or, worse, contradictory levels of prescription in the design guide and the planning conditions.

We commend the format of the CDF’s recent workshop as a mechanism for engaging the community with stakeholders and decision- makers; this will include presentations, but also small group discussions and open discussions with an independent moderator. The design workshop result was described in an article by our Chair, and this is attached to our accompanying email. One key process issue was to agree a design guide which is not overly prescriptive and not to produce highly duplicators or, worse, contradictory levels of prescription in the design guide and the planning conditions.

We commend the format of the CDF’s recent workshop as a mechanism for engaging the community with stakeholders and decision- makers; this will include presentations, but also small group discussions and open discussions with an independent moderator. The design workshop result was described in an article by our Chair, and this is attached to our accompanying email. One key process issue was to agree a design guide which is not overly prescriptive and not to produce highly duplicators or, worse, contradictory levels of prescription in the design guide and the planning conditions.

We commend the format of the CDF’s recent workshop as a mechanism for engaging the community with stakeholders and decision- makers; this will include presentations, but also small group discussions and open discussions with an independent moderator. The design workshop result was described in an article by our Chair, and this is attached to our accompanying email. One key process issue was to agree a design guide which is not overly prescriptive and not to produce highly duplicators or, worse, contradictory levels of prescription in the design guide and the planning conditions.

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Given Cambridge’s central role in driving both the regional economy and in leading the UK’s competitive position in hi-tech industries, the role of economic growth must be integral to this Plan; for this reason, we include it in the ‘Big Themes’. We can also envisage that the role Cambridge can play in creating a dynamic cluster or clusters of innovation, could also play a major part in delivering the economic adaptations which support our response to Climate Change.