Agenda item

The report from Cambridgeshire County Council, and Appendix B (Order plan), are attached to the electronic version of the agenda on the Council’s website and included in the printed copy of the agenda. Appendix A and Appendices C to I are attached to the electronic version of the agenda only.

The Committee agreed that

1.     South Cambridgeshire District Council, as Local Planning Authority, should indicate to Cambridgeshire County Council that the Order should be made;

2.     an Order be made, under Section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990,  to divert part of the Public Footpath No.1 Hauxton, as requested by the applicant; and

3.     the final route be inspected by Cambridgeshire County Council as Local Highways Authority and certified as satisfactory before the Order comes into effect.

The Committee considered a report on the proposed diversion of part of Public Footpath No.1 in Hauxton. Members noted that the diversion was needed in order to

enable development of the former Bayer Crop Science site.

Cambridgeshire County Council had prepared the report in its capacity of agent for South Cambridgeshire District Council in processing public path orders under Section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. This agency agreement had been agreed between the two Authorities in February 2007.

The Committee agreed that

1.     South Cambridgeshire District Council, as Local Planning Authority, indicate to Cambridgeshire County Council that the Order be made;

2.     an Order be made, under Section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990,  to divert part of the Public Footpath No.1 Hauxton, as requested by the applicant; and

3.     the final route be inspected by Cambridgeshire County Council, as Local Highways Authority, and certified as satisfactory before the Order comes into effect.