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Representation by Christopher Buchdahl

Date submitted
19 July 2023
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

There is now a real risk that global warming may run faster than projected. The old site is actually far better protected from the risk of flooding and contamination/pollution of nearby ditches, many of which interlink all over both the north and south areas of Horningsea. North East Cambridge has already become overbuilt and congested and the last thing that is needed is a further 5,700 to 8,000 more habitations there, hence another reason not to move, especially as the now expected move of Marshalls from Cambridge will prove that site, closer to the centre of Cambridge, may provide a better answer to Cambridge's over expensive/housing shortage. This unwanted move will prove a vast net deficit carbon footprint overload with the loss of greenbelt and productive farmland as well as the loss of the last significant of chalk marl land left in Horningsea, given that the archaeology on Horningsea's Chalk marl was disrupted by Victorian coprolite mining more than anywhere else in the whole UK.