Decision details

Monitoring delivery of 1,000 extra new homes on rural exception sites

Decision Maker: Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly, Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

The Executive Board:

 

(a)        ENDORSED the approach to monitoring set out in paragraphs 11 to 23 of the report.

 

(b)        NOTED progress towards delivery as set out in paragraph 18 of the report.

 

(c)        AGREED that it treats as the same figure of 33,500, the housing supply (both through actual housing completions and through predicted completions from permissions, allocations and windfalls) required in the submitted Local Plans for Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council, and the commitment in the City Deal agreement.

 

(d)        AGREED to define the City Deal agreement on affordable housing as follows:

 

"All affordable homes (as defined by the National Planning Policy Framework) constructed on rural exception sites, and on sites not allocated for development in the local plans and outside of a defined settlement boundary.”

 

(e)        AGREED that due consideration be given to the housing needs of local people;

 

(f)         REQUIRED Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council to identify and record eligible planning permissions and completions, and the forecast and actual years in which they are built, as set out in Appendix 1 of the report (Figure 2), detailing also the cumulative total so that the delivery of the 1,000 additional homes can be identified.

Publication date: 02/09/2016

Date of decision: 01/09/2016

Decided at meeting: 01/09/2016 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board

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