Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Planning Services regarding suggested preferred options for inclusion in the Core Strategy Development Plan Document.

Approved the preferred option for affordable housing targets and contributions of 40% of more for inclusion in the Council’s Core Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD) as a basis for public consultation.

Further to Minute No.05/11, consideration was given to a report by the Head of Planning Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) containing a preferred option for affordable housing targets and contributions for inclusion in the Council’s Core Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD).  Members were reminded that the Core Strategy would establish a spatial vision for the District and criteria-based policies to guide the development and use of land and would form a framework for a range of documents.

Having considered the option proposed and in noting that a target figure of 40% or more for the total number of affordable dwellings in future housing developments was in line with the Cambridgeshire Structure Plan, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

that Council be recommended to approve the proposed preferred approach for affordable housing targets as outlined in the appendix to the report now submitted as a basis for public consultation.