Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan

Mostly yes

The design of dwellings and places of work should be as energy-saving and as carbon neutral as possible. Having said that you are starting with a massive deficit in relocating the sewage works to create your site. Not only because there is £20m worth of modernisation embodied in the present works, but £250m of unecessary building activity will be involved in providing a new works. In its turn this works, to make it viable,will process fertiliser from sludge , much of which will be imported , generating heavy traffic. Can you afford to build sufficiently carbon neutral buildings to offeset this initial deficit? The way your development is used will also be a factor - for instance if a lot of people libving here commute into London to work then its carbon footprint is greatly enlarged.. In the relocated works is the process of waste water treatment envisaged the least environmentally damaging , softer systems involving more natural digestion processes seem to be working with far less impact elsewhere.