 Welcome to you all, and thanks for coming along. It's really good to have you here. Welcome back to those who have already been to one of the two of the sessions before or had some of these previously with other plans, and welcome to all of the people who are new. We hope to run a good session for you today. We've got a good panel here to discuss some of the issues. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna introduce them and go to each one of them one by one and let them introduce themselves. And then we'll have a quick catch up on the session and then we'll head straight into the slides. We've got a couple of interactive slides as well. There's a Q&A chat which you can use. There isn't a chat function, it's just Q&As and you'll have a chance to engage in some of the interactive sessions too. You can post anonymously or you can leave your name but we won't mention names because of GDPR. Okay, without further ado, I'm gonna come around to the panel. Caroline. Good afternoon, I'm Caroline Hunt. I'm a strategy and economy manager in the Shared Planning Service. Hey, Caroline, lovely to have you here. Hannah. Hi, I'm Hannah Loftus. I'm a communications and engagements lead for the Planning Service. Hey, Hannah, nice to have you here too. Stuart. I'm Stuart Morris. I'm a principal policy planner of the Shared Planning Service. Good morning, Stuart. Or good afternoon, should I say. Nice to have you here too. And we've got Will Smithen and Tim Clifth who are running all of our technical Zoom pieces in the background. So thanks to them for being here this morning. My name's Paul Brainer and I'm the assistant director for strategy and economy in the Planning Service. So looking after the team who are putting this plan together. So I'm gonna just give you a quick overview of the session and then we'll crack straight on with Caroline and who's gonna bring us into the presentation. Just share them on the screen now so I think we should be able to see it. And then we'll talk about it now. And then if you want to please somebody shout, they can't. So we've got a couple of interactive sessions to split up the hour and to stop us from talking at you for that hour. And then we're gonna talk about how much the plan will take us up a little bit from yesterday's session on jobs and homes. And then we're going to be talking about developing a strategy and I can see that I've got a typo in there and I'm very sorry for that. It may be just nice spelling is bad. And then we'll have on the interactive sessions and we'll talk a little bit about the strategy overview and go through the sites and then we'll have a little wrap up in interactive session and then there will be 15 minutes around 15 minutes at the end for a focused panel Q&A. But I would say to you all, please ask questions all the way through the panelists as we're talking through the slides we'll be able to answer some of those questions and we will be picking up any questions that we don't get to and picking them up afterwards in our FAQs. So I'm going to hand over to Cara and I now and he's going to start talking pick up from this session, Cara Lyne. Okay, thank you. Paul, you're quite quiet for me but I'm hoping that perhaps it's just my laptop and everyone else is able to hear you properly and hopefully people can hear me. So we're talking about strategy and sites today but to set that in context, how much development do we need to plan for? So if you came to our session yesterday about jobs and homes, you would have heard us talk through how we got to these numbers and that webinar will be up on our website for anyone that's particularly interested in that aspect of our first proposals but our evidence shows that we need to plan for maybe 44 and a half thousand homes and 58 and a half thousand new jobs. But it's important to look at those in context with our current provision for homes on the next slide, please, Paul. So we already have a lot of development in the pipeline from our adopted plans that were agreed in 2018. So we already have over 37,000 homes in our pipeline so that gives us a need to provide for another 7,000 or so but we also think it's important to plan for some flexibility because things don't always pan out as you think they're going to and it's important to have a plan that is up to date and sound and can provide a good framework for making planning decisions. So we're also proposing to include a buffer of around 10% flexibility. So that means we need to allocate sites for around 11,600 more homes to meet our needs in full. So that's our context for the day and how have we been developing our strategy next slide, please, Paul. And next slide again. So we've identified a guiding vision for the plan which draws very much on our consultation from the beginning of last year and our themes for the plan which were very much endorsed through that consultation around climate change, biodiversity in green spaces, well-being and social inclusion in great places and they've led us to a vision for Greater Cambridge in 20 to 30 years time to be a place where there's a big decrease in our climate impact but with a big increase in the quality of everyday life for our communities. And that's around reducing carbon emissions and reliance on the car and creating thriving neighborhoods with a variety of jobs and homes but very much alongside nature, wildlife and green spaces and respecting our unique heritage and landscape. So we believe that's quite a bold vision for the future and we thought about how do we give effect to that in our emerging plan. Next slide, please, Paul. So in developing the strategy we published some evidence in the autumn last year which some of you may have seen where we were looking at a number of strategic spatial options, so not site-specific at this point but in broad terms, where could we focus development to meet those needs that we've identified? And we looked at eight different spatial options ranging from densification of Cambridge to using land on the edge of Cambridge but not in the Greenbelt which is primarily Cambridge airport. Edge of Cambridge in the Greenbelt, Greenbelt obviously a really important national planning policy but it also requires us to, as we prepare our plans to look at the sustainability impact of our Greenbelt. We looked at the role of new settlements might play we looked at the role of dispersing development to villages and then some blended strategies that would focus on putting development on public transport corridors. Should we look at focusing in the southern area where there are a particular number of jobs already and what about a Western cluster recognising that East West Rail is proposed to come with a new station and really make a big difference in the quality of public transport in that part of the area. So, and we also tested further blended strategy around Greenbelt's release on the edge of Cambridge too because it's really important that we look at all reasonable options as part of developing our strategy. So the key aspects of our preferred strategy, the critical findings from our evidence related to choosing the relative to choosing our strategy were that location is the single biggest factor in impacts on our climate emissions. So we can do a certain amount through the way we design and build our homes and community facilities and employment and so on. But where we locate sites and minimising the use as a car so it's not the first choice that makes the biggest impact on carbon, but our evidence also showed that it wouldn't be deliverable to try and focus all our development in any one broad location and to live that through our plan period to 2041. So drawing on our aims and our evidence bases are proposed strategies of blended strategy so that we meet a variety of needs but also to focus development at a range of the best performing locations for minimising trips by car. Next slide please Paul. So the key aspects of our preferred strategy, I think we skipped one Paul, am I just popping back one? Thank you. Oh no, sorry, my apologies. So how have we gone about identifying the sites that go with that preferred strategy? So we prepared something called a housing and economic employment land availability assessment and that is where we looked at a significant number of sites around 900 sites that came to us both through a call for sites that we made and also other sources of supply that we identified as being possible options for development and that document assessed them for their suitability, looking at range of planning, considerations, accessibility, flood risk, landscape impact, a whole range of considerations whether the land would be available and whether we were confident it was able to be delivered. Those sites were assessed against our aims and the emerging preferred strategy following that initial assessment and that narrowed down the numbers to around 173 sites that we tested through our sustainability appraisal process and that told us how sites perform against the three aspects of sustainability so the environmental, economic and social aspects of sustainability. Next slide please Paul. So our preferred strategy in our first proposals has a particular focus on densification of Cambridge and particularly that that's looking at North East Cambridge in particular. The edge of Cambridge, not Greenbelt and as I mentioned that is Cambridge Airport expanding a growth area around transport nodes and that's particularly around Canborn given the impact that East West Rail will have assuming it comes forward and only a limited amount of development in our villages. And I'm gonna hand back to Paul now because we'd like to hear your thoughts on those aspects around focusing growth. Thank you very much Caroline and that's a really helpful overview. I think we lost Stuart for a minute but I do think he's back now so we've got full panel up to speed. Hey Stuart, nice to have you back. So we've done these a couple of times in the previous webinars this week and last week and they've been useful and I think people have enjoyed them and it's a time for people to be able to submit their own views in some senses. We're using something called Mentimeter and as you can see on your screen you can either download the QR code here which is on your point of your phone or the QR code and it'll come up or you can go to this link here and I actually think the number hasn't come up on this slide, it does come up on the next slide. So there is a number that you need to put in when you get to Menti and you can get to the question. So we'll run it now, I'll go to the next slide because you should have the number on there. Is that number coming up? Sorry, it's coming up on the panel. Is the number coming up? Got a nod from Stuart, so that's great. So I think you can put up to sort of five words in here but what we'd really like to ask you I suppose is what factors you feel we should use to take into account when we're trying to select those sites that are to be developed and I didn't say that very well, didn't say as well as the question came across and you should be able to see when you go to the Menti board you should actually be able to see that picture in full. I did realise this until yesterday, it's quite good when you look at it on your phone or when you look at it on the laptop and you can give us some of your thoughts about the factors that you think are really important when choosing the sites because this is obviously the underpinning part of our plan. So I'm not saying any comes through yet, hoping that people can get through. Oh look, we've got some of the stars come through now. A big one is definitely transport and obviously as you'll know that if you've seen our Greater Cambridge local plan infographic tree you can see the four themes that are really underpinned by the houses, the jobs and the infrastructure and transport such a critical part of that piece it's not the only part of infrastructure but certainly it is definitely something that we have to really consider in our strategy. I'm seeing many others come through at the moment but I think they're having problems with the mentee board. Paul, I think the QR code on the previous slide I think it was wrong, but I think if people go to the website address and put in the number then that should work. Okay, my apologies. So the numbers showing now just use the website and the number and apologies if that was the wrong code. Bear with us with the new tech that we're using. We're all trying to mix it up a little bit but this is still a little bit new to us. So lots coming through now, which is great. Yeah, loads, flood devices and obviously how I mentioned in I think a couple of previous slides ago a lot of our strategy, all of our strategy will need to be tested against the sustainability appraisal against those environmental, economic and social factors that make up the sustainability appraisal. So yes, all of these things are hugely important. Then something around wild space here and we have got a reasonably comprehensive doing it in justice comprehensive green infrastructure study and actually the session and I think in two weeks time the last of our webinar sessions goes into quite a lot of detail around the green infrastructure and we've got Stuart here, Stuart's led quite a lot of the work Stuart is there any thoughts or comments that you want to say about how that's coming to your thoughts over developing the strategy? Well, I guess a taste of one of the next slides is but yeah, it's been a key component considering both where development should go but also where new green infrastructure and nature sites might go. And so that's been entirely developed in parallel alongside considering sites of development. You might remember we did a call for green space sites. So it definitely is a priority and these slides time will show you the kind of overview of where we've got to with that work. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, there's lots of good answers on here and these are definitely all things that we're constantly thinking about and have been really a core part of developing that strategy. So it's a quite detailed and in-depth process but we have committed to build on the themes that we started the plan with and you're picking up on quite a lot of those things as it is. So we are taking a lot of this away as well feeding it into the consultation but obviously part of these webinars is really to give you a feel for how we put the plan together that allow you to understand how best to comment and how best to get involved and put those detailed comments into the consultation. And we'll remind you how to get involved and participate in either the short survey we've got a very short survey that you can get involved in and do anonymously or actually if you want to put in longer comments and much more detailed comments, there is capacity for that and we do welcome those. We've good rationale about some of these things. We have got another quick mentee to do I think just before we go to the next session, Stuart was talking about and you've seen this slide previously Caroline mentioned it and this is the sites that we were looking at. This is the eight sites that we need of the eight types of strategies that we looked at and what we wanted to do now really quickly is from our own perspective, is rank your own preferences on those sites and just for us to get a feel how you all see this site. So though we've only got 40 people here today, I'm hoping that we all can share this webinar much more widely and maybe get some other views back. And so it'd be good to see some of those rankings and how we've come about it and just to remind you all of them. So there was the, and I think you can probably see that slide of the strategy options much more clearly in the meter, then you can on the screen slide share, but they are densification of Cambridge urban area focusing on those public transport corridors again. So an edge of Cambridge and not in the green belt, dispersal to villages, new settlements, and edge of Cambridge in the green belt. So it's starting to see those come through now. And yeah, I mean, it's a clear failure. Actually, we've taken over on public transport corridors now. So that focus on densification and public transport is obviously very important because of the sustainability piece. Any thoughts on that from the panel? I'll see those changes. I'll do like these. It's interesting to see people see. I guess one thought is, I think one of the points Caroline raised was that one of the critical evidence findings was that it wasn't deliverable to put all the development in any one of these places, which we've ended up with a blended strategy. And in terms of sustainability, certainly densification and focusing on the Cambridge urban area came out top, particularly in terms of transport. So if there was all the space in the world, that would probably be where you would end up. But noting that key straight up, well, there isn't clearly enough land there to do that. That's where you end up looking to other places. Another point interesting, you've got green belt down the bottom. I remember from the first conversation that was a controversial one. It was both very, it had quite a lot of support from some groups, but also came up with quite a lot of negatives as well. So it was kind of polarised views, which probably reflects the sensitivity of the issue around Edge of Cambridge green belt. Yeah, absolutely, Stuart. It's really interesting as I'm in there's lots of polarising and conversations within Turning but that is absolutely one of them. And the other thing that I would note around certainly around that densification, which is from the transport pieces, but from some of the climate work we're doing around reaching zero carbon, which we have got another session on that next week, full session on that piece. Again, those two are coming out much more strongly in terms of the strategy and the pins, our commitment really to ensuring that this is a sustainable plan and delivers on their zero aspirations as well. Is there any other thoughts before we move on to the rest of the slides from the panel? Yeah, the other thing I was gonna just highlight is that our transport evidence said that most of these options you could deliver in some shape or form, but they have very different performances in terms of the amount of trips that would be made by non-car modes. But the one option they said wouldn't be possible to deliver all our needs would be dispersal to villages because it just really wouldn't work in transport terms. So that was quite interesting. So we have looked carefully at where villages may be able to play a role where they have that very good public transport, which is the one that's come up ranked first on the list here. But generally dispersal to villages isn't an option for all our development and really isn't a sustainable way to meet needs. Absolutely, Caroline, thanks for that. Okay, that was really useful. It's really nice to see some of these thoughts coming through from you as well and break it up a bit. So thank you for that. So moving on. Now, I think I'm handing over to Stuart. Is that correct? Is going to do the strategy overview? Fantastic, Stuart, I'll hand over to you. Thanks Paul. So Caroline has talked about how we develop the strategy and this just provide an overview of the strategy before moving to the sites. So some kind of key points to bear in mind. So drawing on what Caroline said about the strategic options, the new sites were selected in line with the aim of locating sites where they've been managed by car and thereby carbon emissions. Key points to note, I guess, is also that as the location of sites that there's also the scale of sites that we included. So the site, our focus of development has been on large sites, which are capable of having both jobs and homes and services, which in itself then minimizes the trips that need to be made outside of the area, outside of the site and also by car. So that's one to bear in mind. We did also allocate sites for particular employment needs in the locations that met those specific needs and we'll touch on those when we get to the sites point. Drawing on the carbon, only 4% of the homes it says there will be in the villages and so that is quite a small percentage. I think it's around 300 or 400 homes in total over the planned period. So it is a very small percentage of the overall distribution of development and that again kind of flows from what Caroline was saying in terms of carbon terms, locating homes and villages is the least sustainable thing that we could be doing. So we have erred away from that in this plan. Previous plans you may remember have included brand new settlements such as North Star, Water Beach, Born Airfield and this plan marks a change from that in terms of there's the opportunity now at Northeast Cambridge, Cambridge used to locate development particularly on the edge of and in Cambridge and then expanding the existing new settlement of Camborn rather than identify a whole brand new settlement. Noting particularly that Camborn has the benefit of the Swiss rail station that's coming. As Paul and I referred to, Green Infrastructure is key and it is a priority in the plan, it's one of our big seven themes and I'll touch on the details of that later on. But obviously where you put development and how you form that development has an impact in terms of minimizing the additional land take from that development to provide more space for Green Infrastructure. One of the questions people have put in the chat I can see is, well, what about that water constraint? It's very, being a big issue in the news and the first proposals plan puts it front and centre. We're not hiding this fact at all. It's really very clear in the plan that the delivery of the sites and the proposals that we've put forward are entirely contingent on that water supply being adequate without causing further environmental harm. And we had a whole side on this in the last webinar. So the current evidence suggests that the plan reservoirs and improvements that we need to supply would be developed and it's quite late in the plan periods to meet up with trajectory of the sites. Interim measures are being explored and a significant amount of work by the water companies along with environmental agency and partners to look at what can be done and to do that as fast as possible. But if we don't have enough certainty about what supply we wouldn't need to do something about that and review what our proposals are in terms of the phasing of sites. So we will need to keep this under review and we're very aware that this is a headline point for the plan. Next slide, please. So this diagram particularly shows you in terms of housing, the distribution of sites proposed. Starting with the red blobs, you recognize North and Water Beach and those housing delivery studies suggest that more homes could be delivered there faster. So there's not new sites, there's not any additional homes, it's just homes coming faster. Our evidence shows that they can be delivered faster by 2041 and that can make some of the gap needed to fill from our objectively assessed need for homes that Caroline identified. Secondly, the turquoise blob at Eddington. So the developers and we've reviewed this, we think there could be space for additional homes on the existing allocated site there. So there's no expansion of the built footprint but that more homes could be delivered there about a thousand homes perhaps by the end of the plan period. You can also see the orange blops is clearly a lot of sites continuing to be built out which were identified in previous plans particularly on the edge of Cambridge and then Campbell West and Bourn Airfield. And then in terms of the purple, the proposed new site allocations to meet our need, the key big sites really in northeast Cambridge you can see there. So 3,900 homes by the end of the plan period. But significantly more than that by the time that the development is built out. Cambridge East, again, about 3,000 by the end of the plan period that we're seeing that perhaps 7,000 homes, 9,000 jobs could come forward there. Again, in terms of employment, a key other sites of notes, we're thinking that there could be the potential for limited release of green belt on the edge of Cambridge at Cambridge Biomedical Campus to support continued development growth there of the campus. And then the other big location you may be aware of is at Camborn which we're just identifying as a broad location for growth in those specific sites right now. But we see that perhaps 2,000 homes might be delivered there and jobs too. We're still working on firm plans for what that might look like in the longer term. Thanks Paul. So I guess just to talk about the distribution and the supply, what does this all mean? So Caroline identified there's about 11,000, 11,500 homes needed to be delivered over our current supply. In the first column, you can see that current supply is very significant in terms of the homes we've already got planned, so about 37,000 homes. That faster build out at North Stowe and Water Beach gets you about 1,500 homes and 1,000 at Eddington which then results in about 9,000 homes that were identified through new allocations. And you can see that split there between the different broad locations. So 4,000 around the Cambodurban area, about 3,000 on the edge of Cambridge, about 2,000 new settlements that's for Camborn and then those three to 400 in the villages. So really small number. And you can see at the bottom there's so having shifted through all the sites in the housing and employment land availability assessment and considered the right strategy we've identified only 19 sites out of about 900 first identified through the Cork sites and other sources of supply. Next point. So I've trailed green infrastructure about three times already. Here's the plan of what we're proposing. And we did a detailed evidence base working with our consultants and various partners and local groups to identify what's already there in terms of green and blue infrastructure in the water environment. And we've come up with these areas which so site specific or area specific ones so that ones that you can see there on the map and then a further five of dispersed initiatives. And these, the areas of the area specific ones tie in with the proposals by Wild Earth Trust, Cambridge Passport and Future in terms of the Cambridge Nature Network. They also tie in with the local nature partnerships areas. But we've also particularly had an eye to where new development might go and how does that tie in. So for example, you can see at number six the kind of amorphous monster blob north of Cambridge is the proposed North Cambridge green space which is to provide some nature areas but also accessible sites for people close to North Star, Water Beach, Northeast Cambridge and to relieve pressure on designated nature sites further away. Thanks Paul. So I think if I'm right and I'm correct in my running order and thank you Stuart for that really comprehensive overview of the strategy there. And I think it's Hannah up now and I think you're gonna be talking us through the science is that right, Hannah? Yeah, that's great. So yeah, do you start us off? So we're not gonna talk through every single site but just so that people have an overview by area of which sites we're looking at and then first proposals and what the kind of overall vision is and how they fit into some of those strategic questions that Stuart and Caroline have touched on. I'm gonna focus here on the proposed new site allocations but all of these maps are on our website. You can also go on to the interactive map as well which is really, really useful brings up lots of different information about both the proposed new sites and the existing site allocations that we're carrying forward from previous plans. So if I'm not going through every site in detail and you want to know more, please, please do go on there and see. So the Cambridge urban area already as you can see has quite a lot of orange sites. Those are the ones that we are carrying forward from the previous plans and there are a range of scales from the kind of finishing of Orchard Park as a project that was a kind of really significant extension to the city in previous plans through to smaller sites. This time round we've got the major urban site as of course, North East Cambridge which many of you will know a lot about already because we've been developing an area action plan for that for some time now. That's obviously a key brownfield site has a really great public transport connection. So it really takes a lot of those boxes around minimizing car use, really lowering our carbon emissions and making best use of previously developed land brownfield land rather than having to send development kind of sprawling out into the rural areas or the green belt. So that's a key one. Then there's also a couple of smaller sites. There's some lands out of the problems lane. So we already identified an area of major change around this area. And there's now a specific site application that we're proposing in there. And then there's a very small site almost impossible to pick out on this map but it is the garages between to Matthew Street and the Blue Moon Pub in Cambridge and that's a small housing site there. But I think it is worth pointing out on this map that there are these other opportunity areas because of course the city is a place of regeneration and reuse of land as well. So the opportunity areas and the areas of major change really are us saying here are some locations where we see different forces at play over the next 20 years, 20, 30 years and the opportunity for redevelopment in a coordinated and comprehensive fashion to come forward here. And we think we should put some policy guidance in place so that when those owners on those sites and those developers look at them they're not just doing piecemeal development they're actually adding up something that's really significant that makes a big difference to how those sites work. So whether it's along the road whether it's down near the station whether it's some of the retail parks and so forth where we know that retail habits are going to be changing a lot. We want to see those when they do come forward developed in line with a vision that we are setting with some aspirations that we are setting here. If you could go to the next slide. So, oh, I think we've missed that. We missed the sort of like little vision illustration for the urban area of Cambridge but we have a set of these illustrations that are on our website as well. Let's just talk about in kind of conceptual terms really but a bit more visually what we're looking at. So the edge of Cambridge again really interesting here and how do we create development that is of a significantly enough kind of density and scale to create real new neighborhoods here but also mediate that junction to the countryside provides a really good edge to the green space and green belt beyond and make the most of those links that Stuart was talking about. How do we actually link out to the countryside to our amazing natural spaces and make them part of the placemaking vision? So if I could have the next one. Clearly the really big one here as most people are aware is of course Cambridge East. So there's been some development on the fringes of the Marshalls Airport site, Mali and then North Cherry Hinton that was already identified. But Cambridge East is somewhere where we now have confidence that that will come forward in the planned period and we can start really putting in place a robust policy framework for what kind of new neighborhoods that's going to create over this 20 to 30 year time horizon. It's really worth stressing for those big sites like Cambridge East and Northeast Cambridge that they'll deliver some numbers in this plan period that they'll keep delivering over the plan period and beyond. So the numbers that you may see in the policies because we have to show the numbers from 2020 to 2041 are potentially just some of the total amount of development that could come forward because they take a really long time. If you look at North Stone and Water Beach Newtown as examples for previous plans, they're still building out through this plan period probably even slightly beyond this plan period in some cases. The other significant site on the edge of Cambridge that's new is looking at the biomedical campus area. So you can see a kind of small purple polygon there next to the existing site allocations that were identified in the adopted plans. And then you can also see a black line around that which is us saying we think that we need a wider policy framework to ensure that we protect and enhance the landscape around biomedical campus. It's not just about the development but it's also ensuring that that comes with a really comprehensive landscape strategy. So we're looking at potential allocation there. And again, really welcome views on this from the consultation. We want to know what people think should happen around the biomedical campus, how we can support it, both in terms of its vital contribution to healthcare and life sciences but also in terms of potential affordable housing or key work housing in that area. Next one please. In terms of our new towns, we've got three of them. We've got Northstone Water Beach and of course, Camborn. So those are, again, sort of starting to grow up into real places. Camborn's obviously been around for a while and that's really the focus this time around. Northstone Water Beach, you think everybody's quite aware of what's going on but how do we look at Camborn now that East West Rail is coming along? And if I could have the next slide. So at Northstone Water Beach, there's no actual change to the consented plans that are proposed. It is simply about trying to speed up delivery there. So they really do reach a kind of critical mass and really vibrant community slightly quicker. But at Camborn, as you can see, we have a mysterious circle at Camborn because we haven't identified any specific sites but we're really aware that with East West Rail coming along, it will suddenly become one of the best connective places in the area, relatively late in the plan period but definitely in the plan period, we think. So again, this is an open question as part of the consultation where we've said, we think it's a good broad location to potentially focus development because it will have such fantastic public transport links and because it already has some quite good community facilities in the potential for and so forth. We would really love to hear what you think about how Camborn could grow from a village into a town as it is now and into a really vibrant community going forward. What are the ingredients that would make that really tick and any thoughts about where geographically or in and around Camborn, that should be focused. Next one. So in southern rural cluster, this is a really interesting one which we decided to separate out into its own kind of subsection in the plan really because of this co-location that Stuart and Caroline mentioned between jobs and homes. We know there are these really important jobs, costars, labor and so forth in this area and also pretty good public transport links in terms of the Pettitrain line coming down to the south which stops some of the villages there. So whilst we're not looking at enormous amounts of development, we think there's a case to be made for just helping the sustainability of those communities and providing some homes in close proximity to jobs and to that public transport. So if you could go to the next one. So there are a few proposals here that you can see outlined. There's the potential land between, oh I just noticed that should be purple and it's not as orange on that amount so apologies, we'll get that corrected. There's the land between Hinton and Ware and then Mulay and Great Shelfwood. So that is a relatively small site and it's relatively both ways in fact to the station as you can see there. So we feel that there's a case to be made for using that site that's been proposed and bringing that forward. And then you can also see that there's some other existing sites that would be carried forward and so forth. But I'm afraid I think some of these colours have gone slightly off, haven't they Stuart? Because I'm pretty sure that the Duxford site is a new one and also the Café one is a new one, isn't it? Or have I got that wrong? Good, I'm remembering it's quite hard to remember all the sites in detail. You can also, those are two small sites as you can see. You can also see that we've decided to suggest a policy area at the genome campus and that is quite significant because as many of you will know, the site there that now actually has permission for new homes, actually quite a substantial number of new homes there. And that's come forward outside of the, it wasn't an allocation in the previous local plan, it's come forward in the interim and very much linked to welcome genome campuses continued success and expansion. So we want to ensure that whilst we're not needing to allocate more sites there for new homes because there's already commissions in place, we continue to control the direction of travel at the genome campus through some strong policy frameworks there as well. Next one. And finally into the rest of the rural area, not very, again, not very much development post here for all of the reasons that Stuart and Caroline set out. From a transport and a carbon perspective, it was really clear from our evidence back that most rural sites performed poorly. They were going to really contribute to increased carbon emissions, increased congestion on our roads and there weren't another other factors that would mitigate or balance out against that. So we've got a couple of a few, very few sites if you could go to the next slide here. But these are really about focusing on the most sustainable locations, a little bit of rural employment land because that is really important. And things like that. So I'll just run through them quickly. Firstly, there's a couple of small sites in Melbourne. Melbourne, of course, is one of those villages that has good public transport connections and that's absolutely key. So we feel it's worth supporting the sustainability of Melbourne as a community with those two small sites. There's a site at Highfields-Cordacot now. That's sort of an interesting one because that's essentially part of a larger site that came through, in fact, the five-year has land supply site. So we had that site came along and it felt to us that actually now that was on the table and was coming forward that kind of completing that made sense in terms of its overall sustainability. Then you can see there's a couple of employment sites land near the A14 services and then back into a business park. Then there's also a small site in Oakington and Mansell Farm, very small site, very near North Stone to answer the new town. So almost kind of adjoining that. And then there is a proposed policy area looking at East of the bypass in Longstown. And that's a really kind of interesting site. And again, it's somewhere where we feel we want to provide proactive policy direction, not just waiting to see what happens but actually provide some proactive direction there as well. And again, as I said, all of these sites are on our interactive map. So you can very much have a look and see what's going on there. But you can see how few sites are now being suggested in the rural area. And that really is that focus on transport, sustainability and really making the best use of land, compact development where possible. Thanks, Paul. Thank you, Hannah. And that's a comprehensive run through the science. And as I mentioned, a lot of those graphics and maps are available through our website as well. So happy for you to delve into those as you formulate your responses to the consultation. So we're not a couple of very short interactive sessions. So to get a few more views from you guys before we carry on with the full panel session at the end for the last 10 minutes or so. But as I say, there's lots of questions coming through. We're trying to answer them in the panel. We'll pick up those that don't get answered today. We've been trying to keep them focused on this session that we're having today, which is around the strategy. There are a lot of questions on some of the other issues we're going to bring you along to some of our other sessions, too. In terms of this next interactive session, oh, I'm going to move back one. So just we've got to think of what you think of it. I mean, you've had the team from the panel. And even for those of you who haven't had a chance to have a look at it yet, it's the same mentality that you can use the same code for this. But we do welcome your views. We have tried to kind of every time we've gone out to consultant the time that we've taken a new step in this journey, we've tried to kind of reiterate and take views into consideration where that's possible. And we do really value what people think. And I think we'd like to see what you think of our strategy. I mean, a lot of work has gone into it. This is a really significant area to be doing plan making. And it's also a really significant time to be making plans. We have all of us pretty much been through a once in a century kind of issue in terms of COVID. But at the same time, we're struggling with some of the most complicated kind of challenges most people have faced around climate change, lots of issues around social inequality. So we've tried to really think about how we set out a framework and a strategy that can help us start solving some of those problems or start moving towards solutions of some of those problems. In the next 15 to 20 years, we know that plan making is incredibly uncertain. Everything's uncertain. But we have to do this. It's incumbent upon us to at least use the best information we currently have to set out how we feel we can achieve some of the things that we're looking to achieve. And yeah, I think that there's going to be lots of there's lots of lots of comments coming through this disproportionate. I mean, I'm interested to understand stand a little bit more about that. I mean, I feel like we've probably made quite a proportionate and strategy really, because we have balanced it up against all of the strategy options we looked at. And we did take quite a lot of those too. And I'm glad that people are thinking it's interesting. Real concern of rock could be lost. I think that's interesting. I mean, you know, everybody knows that planning is a lot about trade-offs and, you know, they are making is underpinned by, you know, those sustainability to pay or mentioned. I mentioned earlier in the session. And as we've said before, there's another session specifically on some of the environmental issues, which is next week. But what we've had really tried to do is we've tried to ensure that actually this plan embeds, you know, positive environmental improvement to every opportunity as wherever possible, really. And, you know, we do, you know, I think without a plan, you know, we are a plan-led society. You know, we're in the UK, we are plan-led. That's the way we do development. And without it, you know, development, jobs, things will happen with it without us. And what we try and do is really try and put a framework around that so it is sustainable. Are there any things standing out for you guys on the panel here, some of the comments? You know, you've had such a lot of involvement in developing the strategy. There's some nice comments there, too. I think it's interesting to see sort of that balance, that a slip between kind of people liking the idea of like things like faster build-out and attracting people to come here and also worrying about the commuting patterns and so forth. Interesting questions around the north of the city as well. And I think, you know, the AAP, the North of Peace, Cambridge Area Action Plan, obviously gives a lot more detail on kind of what the vision is for that site and how we hope to achieve that. And I think if you're interested in that subject, because we are going to be having a special webinar is very much focused on the North-East of Cambridge and so forth, I just really encourage you to come on to that. I believe it's the 25th of November. So do kind of have a look and see it. But, you know, it's ambitious. And I think I see sort of ambitious, interesting there as well. And we're at a really early stage here. And so this sort of feedback is really fantastic because what we're hoping you'll tell us is where should we kind of go next for some of this stuff? How can we deliver on some of those interesting or ambitious things and maybe, you know, avoid some of the fears and the worries about development that are also being expressed? These are not fully formed policies yet. We don't have all of the detail on the site-specific policies that we will have later on. So now is the time to kind of tell us what really would make a good policy on a specific site using your local knowledge as well. Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, and I think that the one thing to point out on what I'm going to do is I'm going to move to the next mentee session so people can start feeling into that. And then I'll stop doing all the questions too so we can actually double up a little bit here. So yeah, really good to see some of those thoughts coming through. And the next message, I think we've got one of some people in there already, what would make these sites into great basis? So basis again. So please put your thoughts into this board as well because as Hannah's mentioned, it's really important that we gather them at this stage of plan making. And some of the things around population growth, it's a really difficult one. And we do understand how divisive it can be. But a local plan isn't looking at just today, it's looking at the future and not just the people who live here today. They are very important. Our communities are hugely important. But we are also planning for people who are currently in primary school. We are planning for people who haven't even been born yet. And actually, that's a really difficult job to do. So we need to take the opportunity to say, actually, population growth, the way that humans migrate, human geography changes and happens without planning. Planning was put in place to have some development going around that. And actually, this is a really important part of doing it. And the one thing that also comes to mind is we do reiterate these plans regularly. The plans are reiterated on a five-year basis at absolute minimum. And there may be a view that actually that's not regularly enough in very swift moving and accelerated 21st century. But it's certainly something, there are challenges and we know that. But there's lots of good stuff coming through. And I think, please shout out, plan this for some of those comments. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask a few questions off now. There's a couple of questions on sewage and water supply. And I know that Stuart's already mentioned them quickly, but we will touch upon them because they are a core theme. There is a session next week, which goes into more detail. But do you want to pick up those questions quickly? Caroline or Stuart, one or two of you, you're quite close to that issue. I think Stuart was going to respond to that. Sorry about the sewage, Paul. Yeah, sewage and the water, I think just a touching on the integrated water assessment, I suppose, really. Yeah, I guess it was. Just a broader note that, so the integrated water assessment does identify with the current sewage plant that in North East Cambridge does need improving to address planned and future growth. So it's just the point, I guess, that doing nothing is not an option at that site. I don't know if Caroline wanted to talk more specifically about the Anglin Water Relocation at all, but that's a broader point. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm trying to try out some of these questions with some of the stuff that's coming through again. And yeah, I mean, there's a lot of stuff around community factors. And I think that nobody really has the true answer to this. We've got some interesting conversations coming through yesterday around COVID and the impacts of COVID on movement and the people's movement like working, but we're only 18 months into that. So we have to keep an eye on it. We will be doing some further economic work next over the next few months to inform the next stage of the plan. But we have to work on trends that may stick or may not stick. And there may well be future things that will really change the way that it moves. We need to be really cognizant of that. Flexible policies in some ways are a really great thing. And we'd love to be able to do more around that. Some of the work that we have to do, we'll need to challenge that too. Let me see. Let's have a look. Should the plan clarify, there is also an important existing employment cluster at Northeast Cambridge, not relying on the AAP? Hannah, I don't know if you're very cited on the AAP or Caroline actually, because you're quite cited on the AAP. Would you have to talk that question? Yeah, I mean, we have a number of existing quite large employment centres in and around Cambridge. The Cambridge Science Park and the John's Innovation Centre and so on in that Northeast part of Cambridge are obviously, obviously very important locations for employment, as are many others, West Cambridge, the Biomedical Campus, Granted Park, the Genome Campus, the Bayburn Research Park and so on. So this area has a lot of very successful economic locations, but certainly, Northeast Cambridge is one of those. But one of the benefits that the Northeast Cambridge development can bring is to provide more homes closer, you know, close to those jobs and enable more trips to be made locally. But it is, I think was said, the most sustainable location that came out from our transport modelling because it has such good public transport connectivity already with the station, the busway, new links up to water breach coming, cycling. You know, it really is a very accessible location for development. That's one of the reasons it comes out so faithfully in our evidence and in our studies. Thanks, Caroline. I've got a question around Camborn here. And I'm going to come to hand up to that one. I think Camborn looks like a massive housing estate now, apart from potential transformation of these restaurants. I just can't see leisure facilities, meeting needs in futures. Cambridge is the place to go for this. Who will want to live there, apart from cheaper housing costs compared to Cambridge? Yeah, super interesting about Camborn and actually somewhere where we have been focusing some of our engagement activities to try and understand more about the community who already live in Camborn and what their aspirations are for the future. And we've been doing some workshops with young people in Camborn. And it's really interesting how much demand they have for better facilities in Camborn. And a few really lovely kind of sound bites and things that came out of that. I mean, people say, well, actually, why isn't Camborn like the next Cambridge? Take the best bits of Cambridge and maybe East West Rail could deliver that in Camborn. So it would be interesting to see how that critical mass of people as both the existing communities and the new areas, whether they're ones that are already coming on stream, like West Camborn and indeed, Borne Airfield to the other side, how those start to mature. But I think the community representatives that we've spoken to in Camborn so far and we are having some more events there coming up in the consultation period have really expressed some optimism about seizing the opportunity of East West Rail to create much more business opportunities, much more leisure opportunities, allowing people to actually start more businesses in Camborn. There's a lot of people who'd like to start their own businesses and there's just no space for them there. So there's a lot of really interesting things coming out there. And also what people value about Camborn as a location that it has got a slightly slower pace of life. People really value the links into the countryside. And so some things there that we're gonna have to be careful not to lose alongside all the games that could come. Thanks, Hannah. I'm gonna come to another question here about employment sites. And I wonder if Caroline or potentially Stuart can talk to this. Are employment sites focused in the north, like the homes as a question? What I'm gonna do whilst that's being answered, I'm gonna move my screen on from the mentee now to bring up the rest of the sessions and the links to how you can get involved more fully and get your thoughts in. So who's picking up this employment question, please? Well, as I just mentioned, we have a number of significant clusters of employment around Greater Cambridge. There are significant employment opportunities in the north with more to come through places like, you know, North Stone, Water Beach, as well as more in North East Cambridge area. There are clearly significant employment parks in the south. And you saw through the spatial options that we looked at, that we did look at whether there were opportunities in the south around those employment locations. So, you know, but we have looked carefully to try and make sure that we are only putting development in locations where people don't need to use their car every day for movement because that is such a significant part of, you know, need to be a focus of our strategy given that real focus on climate change, which is, you know, an ever-increasing issue for us. You know, we've always aimed to reduce travel, but it's now crucial for the planet, let alone for us in this area. I mean, our transport evidence did look very carefully at a range of different locations and how development in those different locations would perform. It looked at the way that we might choose to travel in those different locations. So, you know, the percentage of trips that would be by car, the percentage of trips by public transport and by active means, by, you know, on your foot, on foot or using a cycle. And it really did point us very clearly to, you know, the most sustainable locations being in and on the edge of Cambridge. And Camborn came, you know, very close behind that. So, when you bring that all together, that has very much informed the strategy that we've put together here. But obviously, interested to hear your views. That's what this is all about. And I think it's important perhaps to say that this is an extra stage in plan making this time. We haven't gone straight from that early consultation through to a draft plan. We're having this conversation with you now around the preferred option. So, we've got the opportunity to hear views. And to, if we need to, we've still got the opportunity to adapt our strategy and our policies before we actually write up that full draft plan. So, we, you know, we are genuinely keen to hear from as many people as possible as we go through this consultation. Thanks very much, Caroline. And, you know, I'm aware that we're a couple of minutes over time. I do want to pick up any questions while I just talk through this last little bit. I'm absolutely happy to. But as you can see on my screen now, we are, you know, this is one of the series of webinars. We've had five, we've had two already. One is around how to engage with the plan, but substantive ones around development numbers. This is around start sites and spatial strategy. And, you know, the thing is, and we understand the theme that, you know, we've been here working on this plan for, you know, the past two years. We understand that there's, you know, there are concerns around the environmental issues around climate, around biodiversity, around the water. And that's why we've, you know, we've got two specific sessions on those coming up. So, you know, we will be able to talk a little bit more in detail of those. And we have got some of our consultants joining us. So, you'll be able to ask some of those questions. You know, we haven't hidden away from anything really. We have been very, very open in how we go about, you know, bringing this to the forefront. Because we are, you, we want to solve these problems or work towards solving these problems as well. It's part of, you know, we're a team of planners, you know, part of our world is really trying to make places better in all aspects. And so please do join us for those. I expect to see them as being really, really busy sessions. And my mark for you can grow my beard back a little bit by the time we get to the end of the month. And we do have one specifically on Northeast Cambridge and the local plan, the air action plan. I know there's a few questions coming through on that too. And a lot of those questions, I think we have already answered in previous sessions. So happy to point you in the direction of something FAQs, which gives them, you know, a lot more detail than I could potentially give you verbally over a screen. So we can point you in those directions too. But other than that, I think we're going to close the session off now. Anything that we haven't answered that's not already on FAQs, we will be recording this, the session's recorded. We will pick them up, we'll put them on FAQs. Don't feel like you're being ignored. Absolutely not. We want people to get involved. Spread the word. Please do. Please do get people to attend. Constations open till December. Please get involved through those routes. I think that's pretty much it. I think that there is a little, hopefully that QR code will work. As per my other one, didn't plan. I do get involved. And I'd really just really like to thank the panelists today for their contributions. And I'd like to thank you all for coming along. And so some really helpful feedback, some really helpful questions. It's really good to be talking to you about this now. And other than that, I would wish you all a really good Thursday, Friday, and a fantastic weekend. And we'll hope to see you next week. There are a lot of other sessions. There are some Zoom sessions for specific forums. There are also some in real life sessions that we're going to be going to as well. A lot of the team are trying to get to some sessions. We'll be at some youth clubs, we'll be at some schools, we'll be at some places. So you can come and say hello and say, welcome back outside of being locked up in office in some rooms for the last 18 months. But other than that, have a lovely week. Take care.