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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear all,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Update 11 December, 2019<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Invitation to Council Leader's
Briefing "Cambridge 2020 and Beyond" <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>Friday 17 January
2020, 6.00 – 7.30pm RSVP by 10 January<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="color:black">A reminder that
if you want to attend the re scheduled briefing you need to </span>RSVP to <a href="mailto:Kathy.Brown@cambridge.gov.uk" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Kathy.Brown@cambridge.gov.uk </a><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Oxford Cambridge Arc </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">With polling day tomorrow a number of the questions you raised earlier
with the Director of Greater Cambridge Shared Planning <span>have featured as hustings topics and been
the focus of recent events, reports and consultations.</span> For an update on
how politicians along the Oxford Cambridge Arc view the Expressway and a million homes see the latest news update, 9 Dec from <br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.noexpressway.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>https://www.noexpressway.org/</span></a><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,176,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,176,80)">River Cam water crisis
and natural capital</span></b> </span><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>The </span>UK Infrastructure
Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC), a collaboration of seven universities including
Cambridge University <span>is mapping
‘existing high value natural capital assets for the Oxford Cambridge Arc as
well as potential future strategic networks of green Infrastructure, to inform
decisions before sites<span> </span>are allocated for
development. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.itrc.org.uk/consultation-dissemination-event-november-2019/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>https://www.itrc.org.uk/consultation-dissemination-event-november-2019/</span></a><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>Researchers are working with Natural Cambridgeshire and the Environment Agency on a
local natural capital plan for ‘doubling local nature’. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>They are also modelling water
supply for the Arc. This does not include the water supplied from Cambridge Water’s chalk aquifers.
<span>Simon
Hawkins Area Director for East Anglia has written to the Exec Councillor for Planning Katie Thornburrow to
say that new reservoirs are unlikely in the next ten years and there is no easy
fix to the River Cam water crisis and the chalk stream issues of the wider catcnment.<span></span>
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>The River Cam is a major
natural capital asset listed in the Cambridge Local Plan. Section
27 of the Water Act 2003 allows revocation of abstraction licences only in
cases where ‘’serious damage’’ is considered. No action will be taken in
relation to permanent licences until 1 January 2028 in order to allow Defra’s
catchment based approach to abstraction to establish.<span></span></span><span><span> T</span></span><span>he CamEO catchment is run by
Anglian Water see </span><a href="http://fecra.org.uk/river-cam/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>http://fecra.org.uk/river-cam/</span></a><span> <span></span></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>At a recent Oxbridge Arc event sponsored by Bidwells, Pinsent and LDA Design, </span><span>Professor Dieter Helm Chair of
the Natural Capital Committee, made a strong case for building nature and
ecosystem services into land use, forestry and agricultural decisions. He stressed
the importance of long term risk assessment in ensuring net environmental gain,
in perpetuity, despite development.<span></span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>A developers group led by Bidwells is calling for development corporations to be set up for the Oxford
Cambridge arc with special planning and compulsory purchase powers. <span>The group have launched a </span><span>“</span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Radical Regeneration
Manifesto</span></i><span>” . There is also a government consultation on setting up development corporations. See links below.<br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllbtxIMxL4&feature=emb_title" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllbtxIMxL4&feature=emb_title</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><a href="https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/developers-lobby-for-fast-track-planning-in-oxford-cambridge-arc" target="_blank">https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/developers-lobby-for-fast-track-planning-in-oxford-cambridge-arc</a><span></span></span></p><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,176,80)"><br></span></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,176,80)"></span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/development-corporation-reform-technical-consultation" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/development-corporation-reform-technical-consultation</span></a><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Cambridgeshire County
Council’s new Climate Change and Environment Strategy consultation<span></span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><span style="font-size:11pt">Online consultation from 20 December 2019 to 31 January 2020 </span><a href="https://consultcambs.uk.engagementhq.com/climate-strategy" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">https://consultcambs.uk.engagementhq.com/climate-strategy</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt">. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">They are keen to get feedback. If you would like a member of their team to come and discuss
the strategy with your RA please let us know.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,176,80)">The Flying Pig and
104-112 Hills Road <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.104-112hillsroad.co.uk/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.104-112hillsroad.co.uk/</a><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="color:black">Some of you have expressed concerns about Pace
Investments plans for <i>The Flying Pig</i>
and about the </span><span style="color:black">eight/nine storeys
or so along the length of the site.</span><span style="color:black"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="color:black">There are concerns that if this goes ahead (which since the developer already has initial planning consent from
some years back, it may well do) it reinforces the precedent for the rest of
Cambridge. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>The website of Formation Architects based in London
</span><span><a href="https://formationarchitects.co.uk/projects/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>https://formationarchitects.co.uk/projects/</span></a></span><span> features what looks like an earlier scheme for the surrounding plots
round Botanic House and plans for the North Cambridge Station area as well as
for the remaining plots for the Cambridge central station area. If you look at
the Cambridge North drawing, you will see a circular tower drawn in the north
western corner. There are about twelve floors, The rest are about 6 -
8 storeys. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>We will be posting an update about the North East Area
Action Plan. <span></span>Three scenarios are proposed for the Milton sewage site, two of them include plans for eleven to thirteen
storeys.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>Best wishes,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>Wendy<span></span></span></p>
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