Agenda, decisions and minutes

To receive any declarations of interest from Members on matters arising in this agenda.

None 

To authorise the Chairman to sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 8 March 2005 as a correct record. 

The Minutes of the last meeting held on 8 March 2005 were accepted as a correct record with the following amendment:

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 Energy. Amend first sentence of second paragraph to read ‘It was suggested that the policies for Cambridge East should require a higher target than 10% of energy requirements to be provided by renewable energy’.  

The following Appendices are enclosed separately:

Appendix A                  The Draft Cambridge East Area Action Plan

Appendix B                  The Draft Proposals Map

Appendix C                  The Draft Concept Plan 

A – INTRODUCTION and B – VISION

Council AGREED the content of Sections A and B, subject to amendments.

C THE SITE AND ITS SETTING

Council AGREED the content of Sections C1, C2, C3 and C4 subject to amendments.

D THE URBAN QUARTER AT CAMBRIDGE EAST

Council AGREED the content of Sections D1, D2 and D3 subject to amendments.

D4 Housing

Council AGREED the content of Section D4, subject to amendments.

D6 Community Facilities, Leisure, Arts and Culture including Community Development.

Council AGREED the content of Sections D5 and D6, subject to amendments.

D7 Transport

Council AGREED the content of section D7 subject to amendments.

D8 Landscape

Council AGREED the content of Section D8 subject to amendment.

D9 Biodiversity

Council AGREED the content of Section D9 subject to amendment.

D10 Archaeology and Heritage

Council AGREED the content of Section D10

D11 Meeting Recreational Needs

Council AGREED the content of Section 11 subject to amendment.

D12 Land Drainage, Water Conservation, Foul Drainage and Sewage Disposal.

Council AGREED the content of Section 12

D13 Telecommunications

D14 Natural Environment

Council AGREED the content of Sections D13 and D14

D15 An Exemplar in Sustainability

D16 Waste

Council AGREED the content of Sections D15 and D16.

E DELIVERING CAMBRIDGE EAST

E1 Phasing and Implementation

Council AGREED the content of Section E1 subject to amendments

E2 Planning Obligations and Conditions

Council AGREED the content of Section E2 subject to amendments.

The Principal Planning Policy Officer (Housing) introduced the Cambridge East Area Action Plan (AAP) Draft Plan.  

Members were reminded that the plan was being prepared jointly between South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) and Cambridge City Council as the new urban quarter included land in both Council’s areas and therefore both Councils needed to agree the Plan.     

The Cambridge City Council’s Environment Scrutiny Committee (CCCESC) had met on 22^nd March 2005 and had agreed the responses to representations and approach to drafting the Area Action Plan considered by this Council on 8^th March.

The Cambridge East Member Reference Group (CEMRG) had met on 5^th April 2005 to consider the emerging key chapters of the AAP and had proposed some amendments.  In addition, the CCCESC had met on 12^th April 2005 and had agreed the Member Reference Group comments and suggested some further changes to the draft AAP. 

The proposed changes to the draft AAP resulting from both meetings were tabled and would be considered during the meeting.

A final meeting of Council on 9^th May 2005 had been programmed to deal with any amendments that needed to be considered as a result of any of the previous meetings or as a result of the sustainability appraisal, and agree the plan for publication.

The Draft Plan

It was noted that the heading to paragraph 12 of the covering report at Agenda Item 3 should read ‘Approach to drafting the draft Cambridge East Area Action Plan.’

A INTRODUCTION

The CCCESC had suggested the addition of a new paragraph to the end of the Introduction (A.10) as follows:

A.10     ‘The Area Action Plan concerns itself with a number of practical issues concerning the future governance of Cambridge East, which lies partly within Cambridge and partly within South Cambridgeshire, but does not address wider governance issues which are not proper subjects for consideration in a planning policy document’. 

This was AGREED

B VISION

The Principal Planning Policy Officer (Housing)noted that under Policy CE/2 Development Principles – The Urban Quarter of Cambridge East paragraph a, the number of dwellings had been changed from 12, 000 (as in the Preferred Options report) to a range of 10,000 to 12,000.  It was recommended that it was more appropriate to suggest a range in view of Members’ decision that there should be no playing fields in the Green Corridor, as more work needed to be carried out on the likely capacity of the proposed site, which now needed to incorporate all playing fields to serve the development within the built up area.

The CEMRG had proposed a change to Policy CE2 – Development Principles Paragraph k as follows:

‘A flexible design, making efficient use of energy and other natural resources, built to be an exemplar of sustainable living with low carbon…’

This was AGREED.

The CEMRG had proposed a change to Policy CE/2 – Development Principles Paragraph s as follows:

‘ …which is highly accessible and permeable to all its residents  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.