As part of the process of reviewing its Local Plan for the next 20 years, East Cambridgeshire District Council recently issued a ‘call for sites’. This is an invitation to landowners, developers and others to suggest sites which may be suitable for development – for housing, employment or any other uses.
A full list of the sites which were submitted has now been published on the council’s local plan review webpage (see under Call For Sites Report).
Important note: this list is simply a list of the sites that have been submitted by landowners and developers. It does not in any way suggest that the council supports development on these sites, or would give permission for this to happen.
The next stage is for council officers to review all these suggested sites, and to make recommendations about which should be considered for development and which should not. This will happen over the coming months, and a further round of public consultation on the next draft of the local plan will take place in November and December.
Interesting! What is Community Led Development? I am keenly following development opportunities in Sutton as I would love to open a nursery here but whatever would be suitable usually has too much value as housing.
Hi, Lucie. ‘Community Led Development’ is the ‘community land trusts’ that the district council has been encouraging across the district, the most advanced example of which is at Stretham. It’s where a landowner allocates all or part of a site to a trust which is then responsible for developing and maintaining it into the future. You can find out more at http://www.eastcambs.gov.uk/housing/community-land-trusts