Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Planning Services on progress of Regional Planning Guidance for the East of England and Associated Studies.

  Supported the findings of the Stansted/M11 development options study and the Milton Keynes study and noted the adoption of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Structure Plan 2003, a programme for delivering the Regional Planning Guidance for the East of England (RPG 14) and proposals for a Greater Peterborough Sub - Region.

Further to Minute No. 03/19 and by way of a report by the Head of Planning Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) Members were acquainted with progress on and the future timetable for the publication of the Regional Planning Guidance for the East of England (RPG 14) and a range of other studies impacting on the Eastern Region.

In so doing, Members’ attention was drawn to the findings of the Stansted/M11 corridor development options study and the Milton Keynes study which would contribute to the RPG and influence the final settlement pattern.  Whilst expressing reservations about the areas of overlap inherent in some of the study areas and having been advised that the Peterborough and Fens Sub Area had been renamed the Greater Peterborough Sub-Region Members noted that the final version of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Structure Plan had been adopted on 21st October 2003.  Accordingly, it was

RESOLVED

  (a)  that the findings of the Stansted/M11 Development Options Study and the Milton Keynes Study be supported;

  (b)  that the adoption of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Structure Plan 2003 be noted;

  (c)  that the programme for delivering the Regional Planning Guidance for the East of England (RPG 14) be noted; and

  (d)  that the Council’s position with regard to proposals for the Greater Peterborough Sub-Region be reserved at the present time to ascertain its capacity for delivering growth in the region.