Question 27. How should we balance supporting our knowledge-intensive sectors, with creating a wide range of different jobs? What kind of jobs would you like to see created in the area?

Knowledge intensive employment has the capacity to look after itself in the sub-region. It is the responsibility of the Local Plan to prioritise employment opportunities to match the skills and capacities of those who live in the city

More requirements for larger and higher skilled businesses to provide outreach and links to schools and colleges in more deprived areas. E.g. area based internships/ training opportunities.

We would suggest that a joint economic development assessment is required analysing the current employment pattern and the existing skills profile of the area. There is a risk that the local plan focusses on the high tech (IT, life sciences etc) sector which requires B1 space (offices/labs). Due regard needs to be given to a full range of employment types particularly advanced engineering or high-end manufacturing. See also our response to Question 25.

Provision should also be made for service industries. This is particularly important in villages due to the local nature of services provided.

Jobs and businesses created in rural areas should be carefully assessed with respect to their sustainability with respect to maintaining biodiversity and reducing carbon emissions.

Meaningful jobs which reconnect people with nature, land, and each other

Jobs that fuel the creative scene in Cambridge is a must. Art galleries, skate shops, local coffee shops. Reduce the rates on building for local businesses that are helping the community. Ask Cambridge university to stop being so greedy with there rent rates!!

We would suggest that a joint economic development assessment is required analysing the current employment pattern and the existing skills profile of the area. There is a risk that the local plan focuses on the high tech (IT, life sciences etc) sector which requires B1 space (offices/labs) at the expense of all other sectors. Due regard needs to be given to a full range of employment types particularly advanced engineering or high-end manufacturing. This is of particular importance if Marshall relocates outside the plan area. See also our response to Question 25.

We would suggest that a joint economic development assessment is required analysing the current employment pattern and the existing skills profile of the area. There is a risk that the local plan focusses on the high tech (IT, life sciences etc) sector which requires B1 space (offices/labs) at the expense of all other sectors. Due regard needs to be given to a full range of employment types particularly advanced engineering or high-end manufacturing. This is of particular importance if Marshall relocates outside the plan area. See also our response to Question 25.

As set out in the response to Q25, the College recognises the benefits of knowledge intensive industries must be felt throughout the community, via provision of associated jobs for all skill levels. As such, the College supports a balancing of a range of job opportunities.

The CPIER report notes the importance of deepening the complimentary relationship between KI and non-KI sectors in the Peterborough & Cambridgeshire area. KI companies spend large sums on inputs to their processes (e.g. technical skills to maintain advanced machinery and specialist scientific goods). However, the Commission’s research has identified that marginally less than 11% of the value of supplies was sourced locally and nearly 28% was imported from overseas. The report concludes that this is a missed opportunity that should be addressed in the development of local industrial strategies. Paragraph 026 Reference ID: 2a-026-20190220 of the Planning Practice Guidance notes that In gathering evidence to plan for business uses, strategic policy making authorities will need to liaise closely with the business community, taking account of the Local Industrial Strategy, to understand their current and potential future requirements. The Combined Authority published with Government the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) in July 2019. It identifies three priorities for the area’s economy:- • Improving the long-term capacity for growth in Greater Cambridge by supporting the foundations of productivity; • Increase sustainability and broaden the base of local economic growth; • Expand and build upon the clusters and networks that have enabled Cambridge to become a global leader in innovative growth. In consequence the GCLP must deliver suitable policies and sites that will enable ongoing KI business growth and which will also provide for complimentary business sectors of the economy to grow, which in itself will support the retention and further growth of KI industries. This provision must include sufficient land and sites in sustainable locations allocated specifically for the development and growth of high-tech and advanced manufacturing and logistics businesses. The extant Local Plan implies that logistics development is a low generator of jobs. This is not the case. Modern logistics development often include uses such as their call centres and ancillary offices with employees having a range of skillsets and hold a variety of positions (e.g. managerial, data programmers and goods handling). The following should be noted: • “shed and beds” is a trend for the co-location of homes and jobs and the need for a range of shift types and workers from a range of demographic and educational back grounds. There is significant housing growth planned in the A428 corridor but without a commensurate range of employment opportunities for future residents. • Activities that take place in distribution centres are often high or added value activities. It is not just a case of moving an object from one place to another and there is often the need to repackage or assemble a product from a range of components. • Automation does not mean a drop in employment density, quite the reverse given the need for software engineers and programmers.

We would suggest that a joint economic development assessment is required analysing the current employment pattern and the existing skills profile of the area. There is a risk that the local plan focusses on the high tech (IT, life sciences etc) sector which requires B1 space (offices/labs). Due regard needs to be given to a full range of employment types particularly advanced engineering or high-end manufacturing. See also our response to Question 25.

We would suggest that a joint economic development assessment is required analysing the current employment pattern and the existing skills profile of the area. There is a risk that the local plan focusses on the high tech (IT, life sciences etc) sector which requires B1 space (offices/labs) at the expense of all other sectors. Due regard needs to be given to a full range of employment types particularly advanced engineering or high-end manufacturing. This is of particular importance if Marshall relocates outside the plan area. See also our response to Question 25.

We would suggest that a joint economic development assessment is required analysing the current employment pattern and the existing skills profile of the area. There is a risk that the local plan focusses on the high tech (IT, life sciences etc) sector which requires B1 space (offices/labs) at the expense of all other sectors. Due regard needs to be given to a full range of employment types particularly advanced engineering or high-end manufacturing. This is of particular importance if Marshall relocates outside the plan area. See also our response to Question 25.

Flexible jobs. Part time jobs that will match the real lives of people who are balancing complex life issues. I’d like to see Council-run and managed local community centres throughout the city - not just in Arbury/Kings Hedges and Trumpington - where people actually live. As well as the usual clubs and activities, these could include, for example, regular repair cafes, with knowledge-swapping facilities for finding local trustworthy people who can be employed by fixing, maintaining and looking after what we already own. I’d like to see places where the weak, ill, vulnerable and lonely can go to seek (and offer!) skills and knowledge (e.g., language skills, IT skills, cooking skills, handicraft skills). We need to be building community, to address loneliness and mental health issues).

Jobs which support a green, sustainable economy, e.g. recycling (eg medical supplies); sustainable food products..

Local market gardening and farming to produce more local food and eliminate food miles. Could use rooftops. Local off grid energy systems such as windmills supplying just the Cambridge Area.

We should be maximising our knowledge economy to turn to the huge challegne of the next 30 years: net zero. How can we encourage synergies and innovations here that both help develop cambridge as a knowledge base. Can we have a low carbon cluster - and can the council use our spatial planning and other tools to help develop and trial cambridge-bred technologies that might help the UK (and beyond) more widely

There are no jobs on a dead planet. It doesn't matter what jobs we have if we continue to destroy the environment. Prioritise that. Cambridge does not need to grow. There are plenty of unoccupied houses in the north/Wales and lack of jobs. This government are complete incompetents. How about Silicon Colleries instead of Silicon Fen?

The question risks overly simplifying the issue. It implies that there is a choice which the local authorities can make. However, the commercial and business world is highly innovative and rapidly changing. If employment in a knowledge-sector is prevented, that does not mean that investment in other non-knowledge intensive businesses will flourish and take its place. It is more likely that the knowledge businesses will locate elsewhere, probably in continental Europe, that will introduce uncertainty into the market, reduce business confidence, result in less investment in the area and slow economic growth. Greater Cambridge needs to encourage investment in knowledge sectors, which in turn will help support a dynamic economy and encourage other forms of investment. Agritech is a sector which is evolving and has major economic potential, yet there is a particular lack of development opportunities at present for agritech. The local plan should positively plan for new and merging clusters such as agritech, which the area is uniquely placed to foster.

Huntingdonshire District Council will be pleased to work collaboratively with Greater Cambridge to encourage linkages to Huntingdonshire and in particular Alconbury Enterprise Zone and supply chains in terms of Huntingdonshire’s advanced manufacturing industry to help deliver the Combined Authority’s Local Industrial Strategy.

There need to be controls to ensure small local businesses can still survive in expensive Cambridge. We need to protect the high street with affordable rents and low rates. The Local Plan should do whatever it can to ensure this otherwise Cambridge will lose what makes it special and become a sterile anytown filled with chain stores (something that is already happening). This is also important to provide jobs for people who are not in the science and tech sectors. This may be local people and/or the partners and families of those in the tech jobs. There are people with other skills, abilities and interests beyond STEM. We need to encourage them so that we have an interesting and balanced city. We need to make sure all types of businesses can afford to operate in Cambridge. How we design and allocate our spaces will play an important role in this.

See 25 above

The knowledge-intensiveness appears to be reducing as evidenced by the wage differentials and the effect on our housing market. Higher-paid jobs tend to be most time-demanding as staff align with US West Coast and Asian working times. This creates an opportunity for increased home-working as communications technology is upgraded over the coming years. This also supports more flexible and part-time working but our transport network and, in effect, the personal car, is the first resort today with no solution in sight other than the transition to EV cars.

There is a need to encourage more skilled & semi-skilled blue collar employment. Such jobs provide an important interface between high tech research and manufacturing. There is now only one major employer of this type (Marshalls). If Marshalls is to move from its present site, an alternative must be found within Greater Cambridge. There is a need to balance the local economy which is becoming polarised between high tech research and low skilled service employments.. Need to provide more skilled 'blue collar' employment.

Growth should focus on high value knowledge-based employment sectors and businesses to support these sectors, as Cambridge has special strengths in these areas and the benefits to the City and Country should be maximised.

By providing a range of employment needs.

Mending and making jobs locally here. Small scale jobs. These are the types of jobs critical for a low carbon future but it is just too expensive to find a premises to run somewhere like this. There is a second hand childrens clothes and toys place in Fulbourn but due to the terrible public transport I’d have to drive to get there with god knows what completely unnecessary carbon footprint. There are almost no other second hand furniture or clothing places around apart from charity shops. We need to find spaces for people to run businesses which make enough to support their family but may never be the next ARM. Small businesses which are critical for communities. The fact that almost the only places you can buy second hand stuff locally are the charity shops tells you something very damning about the economics of running a small business around here. In Ely and St Ives it’s different, around Cambridge it’s terrible.

No comment.

Whilst the focus of Cambridge is the Science and Technology sector as the driving force of the economy, there is a requirement for a range of job opportunities, in urban and more rural areas. The Local Plan policy framework needs to provide for a full range of opportunities; as planned allocations and windfall employment opportunities. 5.10 The CPIER notes a missed opportunity to supply AI, science and technology and bio-medical clusters from within the region: 10.8% of supplies come from within the company’s local area (30mile radius) while 27.8% came from overseas3. Growing these local supply chains, particularly the high value ones would help disperse the economic benefits and provide a wide range of different jobs. Availability of suitable sites and premises in excellent locations outside of Cambridge is a key factor in spreading the economic growth. 5.11 The redevelopment of areas around Cambridge central station for high quality offices including brownfield sites such as 104-112 Hill Road should be welcomed. This must be supported by the delivery of a high-quality public realm which provides both recreational space and efficient management of pedestrian and cycle through traffic – especially essential in areas around the Central Business District around the train station.