Decision details

Cabinet RESOLVED that:

1. The responses to representations included in Appendices B, C and D to the Council report be agreed, including changes to the preferred sites and policies.

2. The updated housing land supply position results in a residual housing

shortfall of 1,120 dwellings

3. The capacity of the NW Cambridge Area Action Plan for the purposes of

the housing shortfall be 65 dwellings but that discussions continue to

explore the potential for provision to be up to 800 dwellings by 2016 in the

district

4. That the following preferred sites be recommended to be allocated in the

Site Specific Policies DPD examination Inspectors’ report (subject to the changes

set out in Appendix B and summarised in the report to Council):

i. 3 sites at Orchard Park, Cambridge, subject to the inclusion of a Grampian Condition to the effect that no residential development shall take place above the amount already approved until the A14 improvement programme relevant to the site has been completed.

ii. Land between Huntingdon Road and Histon Road

(Council’s revised boundary)

iii. Powell’s Garage, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford

iv. Ida Darwin Hospital, Fulbourn

5. The Leader of the Council be authorised to write to the Secretary of State to express the Cabinet’s dissatisfaction with the process South Cambridgeshire District Council has undertaken with regard to the current issue, that the Council has undertaken the process reluctantly, and that, through it, the Cabinet considers that public confidence in the robustness of the plan-making process has been eroded.