Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Planning Services regarding South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Issues and Options Report for a Gypsy and Traveller Development Planning Document.

Authorised the Head of Planning Services to respond to South Cambridgeshire District Council along the lines set out in the report.

Consideration was given to a report by the Head of Planning Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) which described the key elements of an issues and options report for a Gypsy and Traveller Development Plan Document produced by South Cambridgeshire District Council as part of its Local Development Framework.

In discussing the contents of the report, Members emphasised that South Cambridgeshire should meet the needs of gypsies and travellers within its area by allocating sufficient sites and not seek to disperse the site allocations to neighbouring authorities.  Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

  that the Head of Planning Services be authorised to respond to South Cambridgeshire District Council along the lines set out in the report now submitted.