Nobody adds up the water. Each estate is judged on its own.
Greater Cambridge
What we can show
The Environment Agency objected because demand from one scheme, alone and in combination with others, risked deteriorating protected waters. Those objections have held up more than 9,000 homes.
- Cambridge City Council: Environment Agency objection
- Cambridge Independent: objections holding up 9,000+ homes
How sprawl adds to this
Site-by-site assessment is how sprawl hides the total. Each estate looks small enough. Together they are a city's water demand judged as if the last permission never happened.
What a larger settlement can do
Concentration puts demand, reuse and new storage in one water plan. That is how we stop approving growth that has no water, and how we stop the next twenty estates being scored as if they stood alone.
The pattern is fewer, larger places with infrastructure first, not another estate on the edge of every village.
Water · How to stop urban sprawl · The numbers · All cumulative harms · Corrections
We can stop this
We want building concentrated in fewer, larger places with schools, health, water and transport built in — not another estate on the edge of every village.
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