Comment
Greater Cambridge Local Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 57826
Received: 11/12/2021
Respondent: Mr Martin Thom
I am opposed to the rationale of the Local Plan, which underestimates the climate emergency, failing to properly reflect the Desgupta report's understanding of sustainability and the economy; choosing to develop greenfield sites (thereby maximising carbon emissions) and not brownfield sites; adopting a cavalier attitude to the question of water supply; isolating the nine wells nature reserve rather than linking it up, eg. to the beech woods; undermining biodiversity (especially re. threatened bird species found locally); failing to develop an integrated transport system whose primary consideration is climate change.
This Plan should be rethought in light of the climate emergency.
I am opposed to the rationale of the Local Plan, which underestimates the climate emergency, failing to properly reflect the Desgupta report's understanding of sustainability and the economy; choosing to develop greenfield sites (thereby maximising carbon emissions) and not brownfield sites; adopting a cavalier attitude to the question of water supply; isolating the nine wells nature reserve rather than linking it up, eg. to the beech woods; undermining biodiversity (especially re. threatened bird species found locally); failing to develop an integrated transport system whose primary consideration is climate change.
This Plan should be rethought in light of the climate emergency.