Sir, I don’t know where Michael Gove’s idea of putting an enormous carbuncle on Cambridge came from (reports, Jul 24 & 25). Far from being a new “urban quarter”, his proposals for 250,000 houses — about 550,000 people — would be overbearing on a city of 146,000. It would destroy the concept of Cambridge as a relatively small historic city. Since the end of the Second World War there have been numerous studies of Cambridge, each of which has ruled out major expansion of the city. Yet the local councils, unlike those in some other areas of England, have paved the way for significant quantities of new homes to support the growth in jobs. Now the prime minister announces (“We are building homes families want”,
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Political trade-offs in tackling climate change
July 25 2023, 12.01am BST