Decision Maker: Cabinet, Council
Decision status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Council RECOMMENDED TO CABINET that:
1. The responses to representations included in Appendices B, C and D to the 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 (subject to the changes
set out in Appendix B and summarised in this report):
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
Publication date: 12/03/2009
Date of decision: 10/03/2009
Decided at meeting: 10/03/2009 - Council - Local Plan Special Meeting
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