Decision Maker: Council - Local Plan Special Meeting, Council
Decision status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
LDF = Local Development Framework
AAP = Area Action Plan
DPD = Development Plan Document
See also South Cambridgeshire Local Development Framework (LDF)
Consultation With Local Authorities and Statutory Bodies
Council AGREED that Councillor Dr DR Bard, planning and economic development portfolio holder, should write to all parish council chairman informing them of the consultation process regarding the Local Development Framework.
Green Separation
Council AGREED that the policy on Green Separation at Longstanton should be discussed at the Council meeting on 18th November as part of the Northstowe Area Action Plan.
Housing Provision
Meeting Local Housing Needs
Council
AGREED to defer discussion on the definition of “local needs” to the Council meeting on 9th December, to ensure that affordable housing was built for the benefit of local residents.
Rural Settlements
Bar Hill
Council AGREED, with the support of the two local members, to re-designate Bar Hill from a Rural Centre, to a Minor Rural Centre.
Histon and Impington
A vote was taken and by 21 votes to 7, Council REJECTED the proposal to re-designate Histon and Impington from a Rural Centre to an In-fill Only settlement.
Phasing and Delivery
Council AGREED to add the words “and necessary infrastructure” to the end of the 2nd sentence in paragraph 3.2.
Monitoring
Council AGREED to amend the last sentence of paragraph 4.11 on page 572 to read:
“Villages are at the bottom of the sequence and no shortfall within or on the edge of Cambridge will be made up through new allocations in villages in South Cambridgeshire.”
Development Principles
Council AGREED to delete paragraph 3.7 relating to health impact assessment because there is no certainty that an individual website will continue for the whole of the life of the plan.
Green Belt
Council
AGREED to suspend a decision on the exact boundaries of the green belt at Willingham and at Sawston, pending a meeting involving representatives from the Council and the relevant parish councils.
House Size
Council
AGREED to defer this matter to Council’s meeting on 9th December 2005.
Horsiculture
Council
AGREED to defer this matter to Council’s meeting on 9th December 2005.
New Employment Development
A vote was taken and by 14 votes to 5, with 1 abstention, Council, in the interests of flexibility,
AGREED to remove the words “high technology” from final sector on the list of clusters included in policy ET/3.
Farm Diversification
It was AGREED to insert the word “business” in between the words “farm” and “plan” in the fifth paragraph of policy ET/10. It was also AGREED to change paragraph 6.25 to require the submission of a farm business plan.
Renewable Energy
Council
AGREED that a more detailed definition of “climate proofing” be included at the Council meeting on 9th December 2005.
The word “power” was inserted after the word “wind” on paragraph 8.11 on page 694.
Historic Landscapes
Council
AGREED that the Whole Way footpath should be included in the list of landscape features in paragraph 9.1 on page 715.
Concern was expressed regarding the decision not to designate the frontage Council
AGREED to defer to Council’s meeting on 9th December 2005 the designation as an Important Countryside Frontage of the frontage bounded by New Road, Station Road and The Doles at Over.
Site Specific Policies
Council
AGREED to defer a decision on the inclusion in the Local Development Framework of the construction of 250 dwellings at the Bayer Cropscience site in the parish of Hauxton to the meeting on 9th December.
Papworth Everard
Council
AGREED to defer this matter to the Council meeting on 9th December after the views of the parish council had been sought.
Conclusion
Council
AGREED
a) The responses to representation to the Pre-Submission Draft Development Plan Documents (DPDs) as contained in Appendices A, B and C.
b) The responses to representations to the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report and the Draft Final Sustainability Report as contained in Appendix I.
c) The responses to representations to the Monitoring Strategy in Appendix J.
d) The proposed changes to the draft DPDs as contained in Appendices A, B and C and incorporated into Appendices E, F and G, with the additional amendments detailed above, and that they be submitted to the Secretary of State in January 2006 after the inclusion of any amendments agreed at Council’s meeting on 9th December 2005.
e) To delegate further minor editing changes to the DPDs to the Planning Portfolio Holder where they involve matters of policy and to the Development Services Director where they are technical matters.
Report author: Development Services Director
Publication date: 17/11/2005
Date of decision: 15/11/2005
Decided at meeting: 15/11/2005 - Council - Local Plan Special Meeting
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