Forest city plan for Cambridge revealed by architect
Plans for a new ‘forest city’ that can house up to a million people in affordable homes are “rational and considered,” says the architect leading the project. Businessmen Shiv Malik and Joseph Reeve have revealed plans to be built on agricultural land between Newmarket and Haverhill in Suffolk, east of Cambridge. No formal plans have been submitted.
Architect Steve McAdam who is on the board of directors said that it “seems to be a very good place to locate a population growth,” while Nick Timothy, the Conservative MP for West Suffolk had previously called the proposals “ridiculous.”
The forest city plan includes 400,000 homes over 45,000 acres, and 12,000 acres set aside for a new forest.
McAdam had worked previously on the King’s Cross redevelopment and London Olympics and post-Olympics ‘masterplans.’ The forest city plans came from “a very different avenue, a much more disruptive process,” he said, compared with a typical new town proposal.
“It’s not in any local plan, there’s no government agency sponsoring it, it’s not as though a bunch of developers are behind it or volume house builders,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
“They say they are the generation that is worse off than their parents and they don’t think it should be like that,” he said in reference to around 1,200 young people who signed an online petition on the project’s website showing their support for the scheme.
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