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Greater Cambridge Local Plan Development Strategy Update January 2023 Webinar
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right however everybody that's joined uh on our new local plan webinar um this webinar is produced to the latest stage uh in the preparation of the greater Cambridge local plan uh we try and do webinars each time there is a significant event in our plan making process you may recall and find on a website we did a number of webinars on the topics for the local plan uh where we consulted on the first proposals um around a year ago and this is an update having just published a report on the next steps for our plan that's currently being considered by members um we're going to go through uh our presentation to take you through the content of those reports to really describe what they're doing and what the next steps is for our local plan you should also find on the webinar there will be a q a where you can post questions to us and once we've completed the presentation we will try and answer some of your questions uh which you put to us live on the webinar and if not we'll also try and pick up some of the questions and add to our FAQs on the website as well so first of all I'm going to introduce myself and my team I'm John Dixon the planning policy manager for the greater Cambridge planning service I'll ask my team if they introduce themselves starting with Caroline hunt good afternoon everyone I'm Caroline handtime strategy and economy manager uh working with John on leading for the local plan and Stuart hi I'm Stuart Morris I'm a principal policy officer working in John and Caroline's team Jenny now we've lost Jenny at the moment uh Nancy hello my name is Nancy Kimberly and I'm a principal planning policy officer um we've got Simon as well on the call I'm assignment I'm the communications and engagement lead thank you uh Jenny unless you can pick up I'm going to move on Jenny is one of our principal officers who's worked on the report as well um right well we'll move straight on to the presentation but we won't ask the questions we go through feel free to add to the Q a so um first of all it's worth reminding everybody where we are in our plan making journey and the Journey's been going on for some time we started uh work on our local plan in 2019 uh this followed the adoption of the Castle's current plans which were adopted in 2018 at that time it was agreed that due councils of Cambridge and South Cambridge should work together and produce a single joint plan for the green to Cambridge area and we started that process in 2019 we're going out and talking with um stakeholders parishes consultees about the sort of issues that our plan should be addressing what were the things it needed to look at in Greater Cambridge and this led us to our first major public consultation on the first conversation in January February 2020 and that really focused on the issues that we felt were particularly relevant to the plant had started to shape those themes and look at the options we could use to address those and you'll recall you did a huge number of events uh in public going around the districts uh we held our big conversation event in the Cambridge Court exchange and this resulted in thousands of comments uh talking about how we should shape the local plan uh we then published um various bits of evidence on um where the plan was going uh and the key evidence that would inform it and this led to the next consultation which we held in November and December 2021 and this was called our first proposals and this plan consultation was able to say specifically what at that time we considered the needs were that the plan needs address so in terms of homes and jobs and infrastructure and so on um it identified proposals as to what sites the councils felt should be used to meet those development needs and a range of policies that will be used to guide how that development would take place it was accompanied by um a library of evidence which looked into the various topics the plan was addressing we tested the hundreds of sites suggestions that have been put to us at that point to guide that consultation all those documents are very much still present in the library on our local plan uh the web page again we got many thousands of comments from uh Parish castles resident Association consulties and many many members of the public and I get all those results are available to view on our website we reported the findings to members of both councils in the summer last year and we've been exploring those issues raised ever since when we reported those results we said um that we would come back to members in January and that we would bring back updated evidence regarding our needs for homes and jobs that we had committed to look at in order to explore issues like the impact of the covid pandemic and making sure you had the most up-to-date information and they would we would um provide more information on the direction we were taking with our strategy and that's the reports we're looking at today now this isn't a public consultation stage this is all about helping us with our journey and being transparent about how we are preparing the plan all the information we've prepared and the process we're going through will inform the draft plan that we are now going to prepare um The Next Step will be consultation on a draft plan in the Autumn this year and at that point will be the chance for people to comment on the eventual updated proposals and a full draft plan as to what needs we think exist how the shipping met and the policies that would guide them so that will be the next chance to really put in comments on the local plan the evidence we're talking about today now the plan making program is quite long they always take quite a long time they're very complex plans to produce that involve an awful lot of public consultation once the draft local plan has been consulted on this year again the councils will look very much into all the comments and respond to all issues received but we will move on to having a consultation on the plan that the councils want to adopt so the proposed submission plan now that's going to be we anticipate in 2024 there's a bit of a Time Gap there because um one of the issues we need to await the outcome of is the planning process that is underway looking at relocation of the Cambridge wastewater treatment works which we'll pick up more on later in the presentation so again that proposed submission stage there'll be a chance to comment and those comments will be considered uh through an examination when the go when the councils submit the plans just to the government to say they want to adopt them there's an examination where an independent inspector will explore the issues raised in those comments and it's the job of the inspector to produce a report and confirm whether the plan is sound and can be adopted by the castles so you can see we're significantly into the process but we've still got a fair way to go before we get to an actual adoption of a plan just to remind on the contents of that plan what is has become very clear through this process and the consultation we've done so far is the plan is taking a really strong shape around a series of big themes and those are climate change biodiversity and green space well-being and social inclusion and great places and those themes reflect um the priorities of the councils in and their objectives but also would be used to very much shape how we deliver the homes jobs and infrastructure that the area needs so whilst we're focusing very much today on I guess strategic issues around homes and jobs and the overall key sites it's important to remember there is still a wider plant or very much shape around those seams to make sure we look at all aspects of sustainability and how we develop the area this particular report that we're going to go through today um reports on the updated evidence that we've commissioned on the need for jobs and homes in the area we then explore the provision of employment and housing so the implications of that new evidence are the reports seek to confirm development strategy principles that would guide how those needs are met and then we really use this report to confirm some of the key building blocks for the plan in terms of the key sides and at that point I'll hand over to my colleague Caroline hunt who will take you through the remainder of the presentation on those on those sections thank you John um I'm hoping you're going to be able to hear me okay I seem to be having some connection difficulties today um but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you'll be able to hear me okay I'm also going to leave my camera off and to try and Max my broadbands for my for my sound um so when we prepare a local plan uh our starting point is the uh National planning policy framework produced by government that sets the context for all all plan making around the country um and it's very clear that councils have to have a clear understanding of their objectively assessed need for housing and other uses in in their area and to look to address those needs over the plan period unless they're a really significant adverse impacts of doing so that would outweigh the benefits of Meeting those needs so that's our starting point the first proposals um included evidence from specialist Consultants into the forecast jobs and homes needs uh in the area as as forecast at that at that point in time the data was ahead of the covid pandemic and we were really Keen to make sure we kept that to date so we we have looked to update that that evidence for this this stage and for the draft plan at the time of the first proposals we uh included a Target to meet housing needs in full and included the sites to meet them so you start with your needs and then you work out what your target should be and we also included a 10 buffer to give greater confidence that those needs would be met during the plan period because circumstances can can change but we were also very clear that those proposals were contingent on there being no unacceptable harm to the environment particularly the water environment because we were aware that was a significant issue in this area and I'll say more about that um shortly but looking first at the uh need for homes and jobs uh we started as as all plans do with understanding what the minimum number of homes that we need to plan for using government's standard method it is described as a minimum need um uh and you then have to look and see whether there are reasons why you would do something different than meet the standard method number of homes so the approach that was taken in our evidence was to identify the standard method number of homes but then to understand the number of jobs that would support and it was very clear at that point that the number of jobs supported by the standard method homes calculation was significantly less than the forecast number of jobs uh that would come forward um and there are consequences of of not meeting your needs in full and we'll we'll say a little bit about that that shortly too um so we also wanted to understand the number of homes that would be needed to actually support the forecast number of jobs uh so that's the approach we took in terms of the numbers that generated um we uh we have updated the standard method calculation which is very similar a few hundred uh difference only from the standard method that supported the first proposals um and you can see that the standard method uh updated in 2022 number of homes um supports of 37 000 supports just over 43 000 jobs um at the time of our first proposals the evidence was forecasting over 58 000 jobs coming forward in our plan period between 2020 and 2041 and it now forecasts that those the number of jobs likely to come to the area is now rather more from 8 000 more and now over 66 and a half thousand new jobs in in that period um and this very much looks at um uh understanding the impacts of covid so whilst covid had uh led to a fall in some population related jobs things like retail food and accommodation arts and Recreation and so on um fall during the pandemic and then and then arise um expected um to carry on through the plant the plan period but what was really notable is that there's been real resilience and actually continued strong growth in the investment LED and the entire knowledge intensive sectors that are really um really important in in the greater Cambridge area particularly things like ICT and Life Sciences we're all familiar with um things like AstraZeneca coming to the area having the welcome trust in in our area and so on so a really important area for the for those um and and we also have a few more years data than we had for our first estimates and they really do show that there's that strong demand uh still continuing in in the area even through the pandemic and so we think those forecast uh jobs are are likely to be uh the most reasonable figures for for us to use and that means that there's then an increase in the number of homes that we would need to provide to support those jobs um and uh that's an increase of over 7 000 on the first proposals now it's important to uh to to remember that we're not starting from scratch here we already have our 2018 adopted local plans that include a significant number of Sites Big sites that will continue to develop through our new plan period so the likes of northstone water beach near town now is uh with its permissions some of the Fringe sites still building out so Eddington in the Northwest for example um and and so on so we have over 37 000 homes already in our current Supply and uh and the first proposals identified over another eleven half thousand um more homes through through new sites and and assumed acceleration of delivery at northstone Water Beach based on our our evidence um so the if we were to meet these new needs in full that's around another 8 000 or so uh more homes that would need to be planned for to meet those needs in in full so thinking what's about the right approach for the draft local plan as I said the starting point is that National planning policy requires us to meet those needs in full if that's possible and appropriate but the next step will be for the councils to understand whether it is possible to do that in a sustain with a sustainable and deliverable plan that would meet those needs in full we know there are constraints around water supply and I will talk about that in a moment um housing delivery is also quite an important issue when you start to talk about um such um levels of of growth um and also it's important that we understand the consequences of not meeting our needs in full because if we don't and the economy continues to grow as forecast uh that could put added pressure on affordability of housing which we know is a really big issue in this area already and a more longer distance commuting from outside of Greater Cambridge with the climate impact that could have if it's not by sustainable mode so we need to make sure we understand in the round uh before we land on a particular Target for the plan so to be really clear there's no decision at this time on what the target for the plan should be that will be something for the draft plan later in the year so looking at water a little bit further um we know that water supply is a really important issue in this area the health of our chalk streams is a really key issue um members of those councils were absolutely clear that water supply and its environmental impacts was something that was really important as I say the first proposals will contingent on understanding that there would would be adequate water supply um and and it was a really important issue that came up in many many of the comments to our first proposals consultation um it is an important issue because water supply for great for greater Cambridge is extracted from the chalk aquifer that feeds those water courses um and we know that there are already issues so it's really important to understand how much and when and uh water supply there will be and when uh increased Supply will be available so for the first time a regional Water Resources plan has been prepared by Water Resources East that was published in draft for consultation in November and that consultation is still running until into February um and it proposes two sources of additional Supply to that will serve our area um a water transfer from Magnum Walters area to the north um by 2030 or maybe a bit earlier and also a new Reservoir in the fence um expected to be operating by 20 35 to 37 the regional plan says so we know there's more water supply coming um but what we don't know at this stage is what that looks like on a year by year basis over our our plan period And how that would compare to our first proposals um and indeed any additional growth that might need to be planned to meet these in the increased needs I I just talked you through greater level of detail will come in the Water Resource Management plan that Cambridge water will prepare the local water companies have to provide their own plans that set out in all detail how they will meet needs in their particular local area that was due out alongside the regional plan but has yet to be published so at this point we don't know what Supply there will be and at what point in our in our plan period so that's a key reason why we're not at this point able to um suggest a target for for the new plan uh and that's something we're absolutely going to need to look at in in detail once that uh that plan is is published for consultation but even once you've looked at water supply it's important that your plan is a deliverable plan there's no point in having a plan with uh with allocations to meet that need if if they simply no realistic prospects of them being being delivered and we know that they're likely to be constraints through the earlier middle part of the plan period but once the reservoir becomes operational that will provide significant quantums of water such that it's less we're not anticipating at this stage subject to that testing uh that it's likely to continue to put a constraint on the amount of development but the market itself May provide a constraint there will be limits to how much housing the market will deliver year on year in those last five or six years of the plan period so we commissioned some work from our our Consultants to explore whether they thought there was a prospect of delivering those higher needs um at the moment they're saying it's just not clear whether that's possible um even setting aside the water supply situation uh we're likely to need a stepped housing Target that increases as we go through the plan period um firstly once the plan is adopted and new sites can come forward that's the first um requirement before we can start to deliver higher levels of growth towards our Target and then we know that water supply is likely to also put um uh stages in in the plan once those different levels of um the types of water supply come forward so we expect there to be a stepped housing trajectory It also says our study also says that um uh there there may be a need for interventions into the market things like could the councils deliver more more housing um can government through any of its agencies assist with um helping to provide more housing than the market might do on on its own so lots of things for us still to understand as we start to develop the draft plan but what we are asking members to think about in this in this report um is the principles that would underpin the development of the creation of any development strategy so the first proposals included um some guiding principles to steer the sites included in in that consultation um and we think that they would provide a good a good starting point for considering any further sites that might be able to be supported by water and and delivered in the plan period and those principles included things like being located in areas where it would have the least climate impact we're active in public transport is a Natural Choice where green infrastructure can be delivered alongside new development and where job services and Facilities can be located there to where people live and that all the necessary utilities can be provided in a in a sustainable way and we think those are still good guiding principles for any further development so what we do know is that with the reservoir coming on stream towards the latter part of the plan period there will will be capacity for some new sites beyond our first proposals sorry beyond our current plans including some of the sites that were identified in our first proposals um and we we say we're saying to members that Northeast Cambridge um and Cambridge East as the most sustainable two sites within our uh within our first proposals within the area um can and and should be confirmed as part of the plan now um that's partly to enable us to um move forwards and develop though the work towards the draft plan policies but these are sites that also involve relocation of significant infrastructure so Northeast Cambridge is dependent on and predicated on the relocation of the water treatment works and that's something Albion water are taking forward through a development consent order process um and Marshall are looking to relocate the airport to Cranfield and they've also submitted a planning application so giving confidence now to uh that these sites were in the plan um we we think would help those infrastructure providers and landowners to continue to move forward with their proposals and Cambridge biomedical campus is a really important um uh site for Life Sciences um nationally and internationally as well as locally um and we think it's really important at this stage to confirm that policies for the biomedical campus will be included within within the draft plan um including so that our ongoing discussions with them around improving and creating a master plan to improve the environment and functioning of that of that area uh can continuously develop the draft plan at this stage we're not in a position to confirm whether a Greenback release should take place but we think further work is Justified to continue to look into that possibility so to summarize the uh reports and the recommendations to members are to uh to note the uh updated need for jobs and homes and confirm that in principle we should aim to meet them in full if possible uh we're not asking them just to reiterate to agree a target for the plan at this stage because we need to do more work to understand what an appropriate Target would be uh but we are asking members to agree uh the principles for guiding um any sites beyond our current plans including the first proposals and any additional sites and we are asking them to confirm the three key strategic sites that I've just mentioned um and in terms of the process uh the report was considered and agreed by Cambridge City council at its planning transport scrutiny committee last night and uh it has been considered by South camps scrutiny and overview committee uh last week and will be considered by its cabinet on the 6th of February uh and then just then to confirm the uh the next steps the draft plan that we're developing to bring back um an act of consultation later in the year that will confirm a housing Target it will have a strategy and the site to meet um meet those those needs was meant as as much of them as is appropriate and possible to do so we will have full policies for the sites included in the development strategy and the plan will also include policies for all the key themes that John mentioned at the outset around climate change biodiversity Etc and we will very much be out to public consultation on that draft plan uh to seek your views at that time thank you Thank You Caroline um I should advise at this point um we've been joined by an additional panelist um Stephen Kelly who is the uh director of the shared planning service he was waylaid earlier but he's not able to join us for a discussion um we have and thank you very much for this received a good number of questions now through the Q a and if you'd like to keep posting questions we'll do our best um to get through as many as possible but I think we'll we'll start at the top and try and pass some of these around the panelists so the first one uh really focuses on a list of infrastructures to go can you tell us if they'll be sufficient um electricity water gas schools doctors uh old people's homes and recreational facilities so perhaps I'll turn to Stephen for this first one on how do we plan to make sure there's enough infrastructure studies underway a that are exploring all of those issues including cultural assets and utilities of course one of the central threads is understanding uh through our engagement with those providers what the housing number is that everyone needs to plan for or the population more particularly in terms of jobs and homes that those providers need to plan for but if you go online and look at our the share planning Services web pages on on local plan you will see earlier studies that we've published at earlier phases of this process and some of the topic papers that hopefully give you some reassurance that we are continuing to explore and sense check both in the context of changing circumstances be it regulations or indeed the environmental conditions in the area but part of where we will expect to get to for the next situation of the plan is a clear understanding further understanding on some of those all right I should put my headphones on hopefully that's better is that better it's better uh sorry about that um uh but uh is a clearer position once we've determined a number uh for that population change on what the precise infrastructure requirements may be and and we will continue to keep that under review um having regard to deliverability challenges uh and the way the supply changes thank you and there's significant work going on isn't there Stephen as well looking at particularly things like the infrastructure and electricity grid um with investment particularly south of Cambridge as well so and there's a lot of work going on I think it's a fair a fair response um the next question is uh can we reduce cars in Cambridgeshire um Caroline would you like to pick that one up thank you um it's a really it's a really interesting question um what we're keen to do through the um through the local plan is to try and ensure that we locate development where where the that where there is really good options for people not to have to use their car on a regular basis um where there's good public transport where there's good opportunities for active transports you know cycling walking and and so on in terms of what the planning system can do to reduce the number of cars I think in terms of new development we can we can limit um the amount of trips created for new developments through things called trip budgets where we can control the amount of new uh new trips created by development as for existing car levels that that's a much wider um wider issue and a real challenge um something that for example the beta Cambridge partnership is very much looking at through some of its proposals um including most recently its proposals for making making connections to improve bus transport and and through through a congestion charge so I think there's a a range of different um different things that can be done what we can do as the local planning Authority is try to um ensure that we're not um exacerbating problems of congestion and that we're enabling people to move around sustainably um through the way that we plan development thank you the next two questions really focus on the work the councils do in terms of testing sites which are put to us so there's a question around Harry we're receiving additional sites and have we published information about new sites put to us into the consultation and then another question about are we doing an updated um housing and economic land availability assessment so that's the document title effectively for us testing uh the proposals that are put to us um when we uh did the first proposals we received uh a lot more sites information on sites um suggestions for things that you put in the plan that was I see our third call for sites so we did one uh back in 2019 where in fact we would go out and say uh in the public domain um have you got sites that we should be aware of that are available suitable and so on to consider as we're plan making it's really important to give that opportunity um up front uh to ensure we have the best information available um when we prepare the plan we then carried out effect the another call for sites through our first conversation and then once again at our first proposals uh alongside um the first proposals we'd already published our review of the I think it was seven or eight hundred sites that had been put to us up to that point um but we received uh I think I don't have to think in front of me I think there's about 40 brand new sites I had an input to us previously and further information or adjustments to the proposals on about 180 more slides now all the sites are put to us are mapped and available on our local plan website there's interactive map which you can zoom around and see the sites that have been put to us and the information that's put to us as well uh we do now need to do an update to our housing and economic Land Development assessment because it's a responsibility through plan making do we consider the ideas and proposals put to us before we come up with our plans so we are actually you know testing the additional sites put to us reviewing the new information that we put to us and to accompany the draft local plan there will be an updated version of that study now our Focus has to be at the moment um the review of that large number of sites that were put to us through the first proposals so there aren't further sites that are being that we're looking at at the moment we are really focused on getting through those proposals now it's not the end of the story um there will be opportunities again to put uh proposals to us through that draft plan consultation and usually through plan making proposals are put to us and information put to us right the way through that consultation process that I covered at the beginning but our focus at the moment is really looking at those proposals that are put to us um from the first proposals consultation um the next question is a question about uh a phrase um water neutrality so if drought is a real problem this region why isn't it a key aspect of our plan um that we need to be shaped by natural England's concept of water neutrality which is effectively not uh building more development unless Water Supplies isn't negative negatively affected now when we had our scrutiny meeting with Cambridge yesterday a similar question was asked and therefore I'm going to turn to Stephen Kelly who gave a very uh clear response to that one yesterday thanks Jonathan and I'll aim to be brief this is a massive topic and a huge area of ongoing work for the shared planning service and the and the councils more widely um we will explore the the concept of water neutrality but it isn't necessarily A A Panacea because um it it it requires an ability to be able to uh in areas where we have un uh engaged with those councils around water neutrality um the implementation of the effective implementation of a effectively improving the efficiency of existing developments in order to be able to permit further developments uh has some delivery challenges but just to offer some reassurance we we're absolutely live to this issue we are working with the environment agency and with them through defra uh on um on the challenges facing the area in terms of water supply and with the water industry in terms of the companies as to what can be what can be done and and I suspect you'll hear a lot more about this topic as we progress through the through the year thank you Stephen uh the next question is about Census Data can you explain if the recent census figures for this area came into the calculation related need otherwise how to calculate the number of jobs you expect to come forward between 2020 and 2041 I'm Stuart would you be able to pick this one up absolutely thanks Ron so yes we did take into account the Census Data so far as it was available noting that lots more census data is due to come out the key point I guess was to identify that base population 2020 is a key finding that there was more people in Cambridge particularly than had previously been estimated and that didn't then inform the population related sector growth looking for the future thank you the next question comes back to um the cover sites and the Healer document so given that significant increase the increased forecast for local housing needs and environmental constraints that already affects some of the emerging preferred site options will there be a further call the site's exercise to see where other sustainable development opportunities exist within the plant area so I'll pick this one up because this related to that previous question um we really need to focus on that large number of sites they've been put to us through the exercises at the moment but there will be opportunities to make comments on the draft plan including about site if you look at the the amount of data we've received on sites and the sheer number we've looked at and the area of coverage actually we have got a pretty comprehensive assessment of site opportunities across the area it doesn't mean there won't be further process of the process but our evidence based on this issue uh is comprehensive and we necessarily need to focus on the information at the moment we've received those three significant call for science exercises uh next question is about Road capacity uh do we have the road capacity the number of bus drivers to cope with the number of jobs and I'll turn to Caroline on that one first please uh thank you and I think I've covered that in part in my last comment around um we're really looking through the transport modeling that will support the local plan to make sure that there is appropriate capacity um for trips that will be made by whatever mode of of transport and we can through a trip budget limit the amount of trips by um by private car um I think the question around bus drivers is is well made we know you know that's an ongoing Challenge and something that I think um again greater Cambridge partnership we're looking at very much through um through the work they are doing as is the combined Authority who is Consulting on a bus strategy right now so I think it's a very live issue and there was a follow-up point in that question about um the carbon impact of development so to accompany the first proposals um we commissioned a significant study into um the climate change impacts our plan and how we could develop policies which would address mitigation and adaptation to climate change and that study very much influenced the policies we proposed in that consultation um it really showed in that study um there was a lot the councils could be doing in terms of uh building standards for example to make sure the carbon impact of the energy we use uh was addressed by making sure our buildings are really high quality but it also really showed that uh most of the carbon impacts were about transport and travel uh hence why we focused so strongly on those issues about the done strategy which Caroline mentioned in response to the the question earlier um the next question is why are we building on flood areas so perhaps Nancy would you be able to mention the work we do um to look at the sequential test and working with our stakeholders and so on to explore flood risk yeah thank you John and so as part of our evidence base we had Consultants develop a strategic flood risk assessment a level one study and as part of the identification of sites within the housing and economic land availability assessment we had a sort of sequential approach avoiding sites that have got fluvial flood risk and surface water flood risk as well so the sites that we identified in the first proposals are ones that have the least kind of sequentially likelihood of flooding and obviously as we move forward with the strategy and look further at the sites we'll continue with that process and if any of the sites have any sort of risk we might look further into a more detailed sort of level two strategic side risk assessment and we're also working closely with the environment agency on this as well thank you the next question is about relocation of the Cambridge wastewater treatment works um given the time it's taken to achieve and the rate of inflation how will any shortfall in available funding be met and will this have impact on the relocation um that's a tricky one I'm going to turn to Stephen Kelly for this one thank you uh John the answer really at the moment is we're not being advised that there is there is inevitably cost inflation in the in in that project uh it's not we haven't yet been advised that the project is unviable or undeliverable as a consequence and it will be for the promoters of the scheme anglian water to um justify and explain to an inspector how the funding in place for the project is sufficient to deliver the outcomes that they're they're seeking but um we haven't been advised that it's not yet a viable project or account of these inflationary pressures thank you um I'm going to turn back to Caroline for this one because it was covered to an extent in the presentation so water transfer does that mean a new pipe and from where Caroline uh yes we understand that is uh that it would be a new pipe uh coming from and in Walters area we think from Grafton water um uh as as part of improving yes that that that's intimate intermediate um provision of water supply thank you I'm going to turn back to you for this one Caroline um the plan period currently is to 2041. but do we need to reconsider that as the minimum plan period required by the government's planning guidance is 15 years it's 15 years on adoption so yes that is something we keep under review as we prepare on uh as we prepare the plan and any updates we may need to make to our local development scheme which is the timetable for preparing the plan uh the report to members does uh highlight that we know we will need to update that that scheme timetable um because the wastewater treatment was developmental consent order was it anticipated when we wrote that in summer last year to be submitted in the Autumn and it hasn't yet been submitted so we uh we know we will need to review that once the dco is is submitted but we will also need to keep the plan under under review I think it's close at the moment as to whether there'd be 15 years at the end and on adoption but yes that's absolutely something we keep under review thank you the next question is about housing affordability and and our affordable housing houses affordable so Cambridge house prices are staying High um those at Marley those those at NEC will not be as affordable to key workers such as cleaners refuse collectors teachers and so on um we're not building enough houses enough to affect the uh market price even of rented accommodation um Stephen if you've got a comment on this one I think so um I I think we're realistic in in this space in that um uh the ability to uh and I think the the the the narratives suggesting that building more houses will reduce the price of housing um are uh probably not uh entirely borne out by facts and circumstances in areas where that happens I think the counterfactual though is that we know that if we if we um maintain a significant imbalance between supply and demand recognizing uh the range of affordable housing products that that are coming forward and in fact Caroline's comments earlier on about deliverability and looking at uh not just Market housing for sale as the driver of of of the homes that we need for precisely the points that you highlight we know that if we do not um attempt to try and address some of those issues that Supply demand imbalance is going to accelerate and continue to accelerate um house price um uh inflation whether that's rental values and competition as competition inevitably drives that up and one of the consequences for that will be as you highlight teachers care assistance even scientists and so on will end up being priced out of Greater Cambridge and we'll have to commute in from elsewhere which has consequent impacts not only on their well-being but also on the carbon footprint of the growth that takes place and that's not something members want to support so with realists but I think we have to ask a question about if we don't um if we don't meet that need um the very clear economic model is that is that prices will continue to be inflated above the national average and and that's undesirable for for a number of those reasons thank you thank you Stephen um we're getting a lot of questions in we'll do our best to pick up some of those in the fact that we don't get through today on the website but we'll probably go slightly quicker um if the chalk streams are drying up it's a clear sign of development needs to be paused um can we stop development when our natural world is telling us to stop well I'll pick this one up very briefly I think the whole purpose of us being cautious around the availability of water and seeking to understand and the issues arising from the water plants really shows that we do take the issue very seriously there are significant steps being taken to uh explore and address the water issues including to reduce the abstraction coming out of our chalk crack versus the Vita chalk stream so agree it's very important and we need to carefully understand it but also we do have responsibility to plan to meet social economic and other needs as well it's a real difficult balance but I'd like to reassure we do take the water issue extremely seriously um then there's a question I think looking at Market absorption so one of the issues picked up in the presentation was about um if can we deliver them of homes and the question really is about should we be modifying our spatial strategy um for a greater distribution in order to help deliver homes Caroline if you want to pick that one up Caroline's dropped off the call Stephen yes should I just cover this um yeah I mean we have we have received this in representations from um a number of site promoters effectively saying um that the way to increase housing delivery would be to increase the dispersal dispersal of homes Across The Villages and um into those areas where we're not currently focusing the spatial strategy on future growth the consequences for that however is that although you achieve increased deliverability We Believe marginal increases in uh delivery of of additional housing um you exacerbate the climate challenges that the the plan or strategy for growth faces and you reduce the opportunity to integrate and create new communities with critical mass to deliver the right infrastructure whether it's health care or or education infrastructure in in in accessible walkable locations as well as the opportunity to efficiently connect those new places for growth such as our major strategy teaching sites to to places like the city with public transport or sustainable public transport options and that I'm by that I mean financially sustainable as well as environmentally um efficient and and transformational so um it is a it is a spatial option it's it's fair to say it is a special option we're highlighting in the principles that the Committees have so far considered in the last few days and um endorsed uh that our principles are focusing based upon the feedback we've had through the local plan consultations to date around concerns about place that people have highlighted in terms of the character of areas changing through such incremental change but also those environmental and infrastructure and place credentials uh that that point towards the new settlements and the kind of more concentrated growth strategy that we that we have but it's an it's an option that will no doubt be debated uh as part of one of the spatial options as we continue through this Journey thank you I'm going to look for questions we haven't really covered yet so one of the questions is about are we going to be working with neighboring authorities about meeting needs so Caroline I know you're back are you able to pick that one up uh yes I'll do my best I can't actually read any of the questions but that was short and straightforward so uh yes we through the duty to cooperate uh have to um have an obligation to engage with with our neighbors and with key stakeholders absolutely something we do as a part of good plan making anyway so um at each stage of plan making and in and and regularly in between we are engaging with with our neighbors uh to explore issues of um shed shed cross-boundary interest both as we prepare our plan and indeed as they prepare theirs so it's an ongoing issue the report does say that we will want to need to engage with our neighbors if uh if our work shows that we're not able to meet our need in full that's a step we're required to go through um through National policy so it's a very much an ongoing normal part of plan making thank you um there's a question that asks about um effectively are we planning for to meet the needs of gypsum Travelers and whilst it's not a part of this report uh when we plan for housing we need to address the needs across the board really of all um types and tenures of homes that are needed and that does include planning for Gypsies and travelers uh we are still seeking to update our evidence of that and we'll be seeking to explore in the plan how those needs should be met so whilst it's not a key part of the current documents in front of us it Still Remains an important issue that will be addressed by the plan um East-West rail what are we doing about that how's that affecting our plan Stephen we in the first proposals we identified further growth at Camborne in the context of um uh the potential for a new station there uh the East West rail company uh have um after the governance announcement in the Autumn about continued commitment to that project are in the process of I think reviewing their position but have contacted the councils to indicate that they want to re-engage around the East West rail proposals in the in 2023 we will obviously do so but at this stage in time thinking around the new uh timetable which is which is in many respects out of date from the unachievable in terms of their published solution we'll need to understand how East-West rail if it is a continuing piece of infrastructure interacts in during the current plan period so it's a conversation that we expect to harden up in terms of in time for further conversations in all the further published plan in the um summer next this year thank you so we're due to finish in one minute and it's fair to say we've got more issues come in that we can answer including a number of comments about water so we will try and have a look at those I hope you answered most of your points on that for well try and address any other issues through the fact I guess one more question was related to how we progressing work on Green Space so green space and biodiversity significant part of our consultation Stuart can you pick this one up briefly absolutely thanks John so we identified um 14 strategic green infrastructure initiatives as we called them for space for people and wildlife in the first proposals We are continuing to develop that work so we've commissioned some extra evidence from Consultants to identify uh standards and specific projects that we can put in the plan and identify particular things and also engaging with the relevant Partners to make sure that projects coming forward could be deliverable thank you stupid I'm going to draw the webinar to a close so we will endeavor to uh look at our FAQs on our website and add ad points uh by reviewing the questions we've received and having me able to answer if you have got any questions on our website you'll find our contact details including our our contact email address I've said this is very much not the end of the story for the local plan we look forward to doing a full public consultation uh later in the year we'll be the chance to raise issues and provide comments on all the issues we raise and um continue to engage and we'll have future webinars as well but I'd like to thank all the panelists that have been answering your questions today most of all thank you for the real a wide range of really good questions that you've put to us it's really good to see such engagement from a whole raft of people as we take the plan forward really grateful so thanks very much for joining um see you next time
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