Decision details

To agree the Council’s response to a consultation currently being carried out by the Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council.

To agree the Council’s response to the County Council’s consultation on the issues and options arising from the preparation of the new local development framework for minerals and waste.

The County Council has published for participation the first stage in the preparation of a new Minerals and Waste Local Development Framework.  Representations were required to be submitted by 15 July 2005.  The key issues for South Cambridgeshire arising from the consultation document are set out in a report available upon request from Democratic Services.  These primarily concern:

·                      The lack of a strategy for the provision of Waste Management facilities including site specific allocations ranging from household waste recycling centres (HWRC) to major waste management facilities to serve the Cambridge Area;

·                      Whether the Minerals & Waste Development Plan should identify sites for waste management in Northstowe and the urban extensions to Cambridge, if determined to be appropriate through the above strategy, to allow them to be tested at public examination rather than for them to remain as areas of search in the current Waste Local Plan, which would prolong uncertainty regarding provision and delay its achievement;

·                      Whether sites in the Green Belt should be included in the search; and

·                      The criteria relating to the possible relocation of the Milton Wastewater Treatment Works, which is important for the District, both as it will fundamentally influence the ability to release the site of the current works for housing and other development and also because a replacement site would most likely be within South Cambridgeshire.