Representation by Miriam Christensen
- Date submitted
- 19 July 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The plans are for building on Green Belt which should be strongly protected, for an unnecessary massive carbon footprint in building and decommissioning the existing site at an unnecessary massive monetary cost of tax payers money. Particularly when the existing sewage works has had investment relatively recently to future proof for many decades to come, the planners themselves have even said there is no operational need for the planned new sewage plant. I also don’t think the full scale of the economic and environmental impart of the potential decommissioning of the existing site has been taken into account. ? There would be heavy construction traffic for years, effecting residents, commuters passing through and school communities in terms air pollution and noise for both at the new site as well as for the decommissioning of the existing site. As well as severe disruption to transport links due to building and excavating works of the surrounding new site area for pipework etc. Many families and commuters cycle or walk along the surrounding routes that would be the main access point for Lorries to and from the new and existing site in the whole unnecessarily very disruptive process. The air pollution including odour of the potential new site will negatively impact the health and wellbeing of surrounding villages, including schools and commuters. There is a primary school nearby which would not fair well with the odour pollution and secondary school kids that cycle past the potential new site to commute also. Transport to and from North of the site from Waterbeach direction will have knock on effects on villages lying North of the Honey Hill site, commuters come from places such as Landbeach, Stretham and Ely, where they avoid the already heavy traffic at peak times on the A10 towards central Cambridge or to go Eastbound on the the A14 by travelling through Horningsea and High Ditch road. So it would cause extra congestion along the A10, leading to more pollution from a higher volume of standstill/stationary traffic in peak times. Overall an ill planned plan, which doesn't have tax payers, residents of Cambridge, economic or environmental best interests at heart.