When the big infrastructure falls through, the homes just move to the next field.
Cambridge
What we can show
The draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan was recast after the government decided not to fund the sewage works relocation. Growth that was tied to that kit is being reshuffled onto other sites.
How sprawl adds to this
When the one piece of city-scale kit falls through, the homes do not stop. They scatter to the next available field. That is sprawl as a fallback, not as a plan.
What a larger settlement can and cannot do
A larger planned settlement elsewhere does not fund Cambridge's relocation. What it can do is stop that reshuffle becoming twenty village-edge estates, each too small to replace the works that was dropped.
What this page does not claim
Concentration does not reopen the unfunded Cambridge works. Nothing here replaces that project.
The pattern is fewer, larger places with infrastructure first, not another estate on the edge of every village.
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