The Planning Policy & Localism Portfolio Holder approved the updated Local Development Scheme attached to the report as Appendix A, and noted
(a) The inclusion of the revised timetable for the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan, so long as the Special meeting of Council on 13 March 2014 agreed it for submission to the Secretary of State, and
(b) the preparation, dependent as in (a) above, of Area Action Plans for Cambridge Northern Fringe East (in conjunction with Cambridge City Council), a new town at Waterbeach and a new village at Bourn Airfield.
The Northstowe and New Communities Portfolio Holder agreed that the Local Development Scheme be revised to show a single South Cambridgeshire Local Plan being prepared incorporating a review of the Core Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD), Site Specific Policies DPD and the Development Control Policies DPD to the timetable set out in Appendix 1. The Gypsies and Travellers DPD will no longer be prepared separately and any policies and proposals for gypsy and traveller accommodation will be included in the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan.
1. The New Communities Portfolio Holder agreed that a single South Cambridgeshire Development Plan be prepared incorporating a review of the Core Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD), Site Specific Policies DPD and the Development Control Policies DPD as a single document to the timetable set out in Appendix 1, Tables 1 and 4 and that the Gypsies and Travellers DPD will continue to be prepared separately (Appendix 1, Table 3).
2. That authority be delegated to the Corporate Manager (Planning and New Communities) to complete a new Local Development Scheme on this basis.
The New Communities Portfolio Holder to sign off the Scheme at a future date.