Issue - meetings

Cabinet ENDORSED the Cambridgeshire developing Local Area Agreement (LAA) annual refresh, understanding that amendments would need to be made by Cambridgeshire Together (LAA Board) before its final submission on 31 March 2009.

Decision taken and published 12 March 2009.  Call-in period expires 19 March 2009 and decision can be implemented from 20 March 2009 if not called-in. 

Cabinet ENDORSED the Cambridgeshire developing Local Area Agreement (LAA) annual refresh, understanding that amendments would need to be made by Cambridgeshire Together (LAA Board) before its final submission on 31 March 2009.

The Leader introduced the Local Area Agreement (LAA) Annual Refresh and commended it to Cabinet.

The following comments were made:

·                      The reduced growth targets at NI 154 and 155 had been recommended to GO-East by Cambridgeshire Horizons to reflect the current situation, and had now been accepted by GO-East, but it was a temporary measure only and it was expected that the difference would be made up before the end of the Regional Spatial Strategy period in 2021;

·                      There had not been a previous target set for NI 159, so the new figures should reflect the recent Local Development Framework decisions;

·                      The Place Survey would add targets to many of the “to be confirmed” areas.

Cabinet acknowledged that the LAA would become more important from 1 April as the Comprehensive Area Agreement (CAA) regime took effect, but there were concerns expressed that the government’s required approach focussed too much energy on processes and setting targets and not enough on providing services to improve life in South Cambridgeshire.

Cabinet ENDORSED the Cambridgeshire developing Local Area Agreement (LAA) annual refresh, understanding that amendments would need to be made by Cambridgeshire Together (LAA Board) before its final submission on 31 March 2009.