Planning
Water in Greater Cambridge – Letter to Ministers
Water supply in Greater Cambridge area is an issue that continues to cause concern and hit headlines. It is an issue that the Government seems to be ignoring given announcement of £615m Life Sciences Package. The announcement included statements on making changes to planning rules to get more lab space built. In light of this […]
Bourn Airfield Gains Outline Planning Approval at Committee
Bourn Airfield has moved to the next stage of its controversial journey in becoming a new village in South Cambridgeshire when it gained outline planning permission at the Extraordinary Planning Committee meeting held on 19th February 2021.
Bourn Airfield Outline Planning Application Going To Committee
Bourn Airfield, the former World War II airfield sandwiched between Highfields Caldecote and Cambourne was granted outline planning permission at the South Cambridgeshire Planning Committee meeting held on Friday 19th February 2021.
Countryside Properties Gag attempts on Bourn Airfield Development
The allocation of Bourn Airfield in the 2014 draft Local Plan met with a lot of opposition, from the neighbouring parishes and me. There were several reasons as already stated in a number of my previous blog articles. The Planning Inspector subsequently found the plan sound, and the Council adopted it in October 2018. Despite […]
Local Plan Adopted by South Cambridgeshire Councillors
The much awaited South Cambridgeshire Local Plan finally got to be presented to Full Council at its meeting on Thursday 27th September 2018. This was a date that for me came with very mixed emotions, given the events that led up to that point in time. I had spent considerable time thinking about what I […]
Villages Getting More Influence over Design of New Developments
Eight South Cambridgeshire villages are getting more of a say in the look and feel of new developments in their communities, as part of a ground-breaking planning initiative.