Creating a vision for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc

The CLA agrees a regional strategy is needed to deliver a vision such as the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.

The CLA is supportive of a Spatial Framework, to sit alongside the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), as being the best way to achieve this. The Spatial Framework consultation documents, however, fail to identify the rural economy at all, which we believe is a serious omission.

The CLA would like the role and potential of the economy in the rural area of the Arc to be quantified in the Spatial Framework and the impacts on rural communities to be recognised.