Consultation Update

The next round of public consultations on the emerging Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan will run from Monday 15 February to Monday 29 March 2010. 
If you have responded to a previous version of the Plan, your response will not be carried over in this consultation. If you wish to make your view heard, please respond to this version of the Plan. 

The venues, dates and times of the consultation events are outlined in the table below.

Where are we in the process?

Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council have been preparing the Plan since 2005, and have undertaken several public consultations. The Councils have now decided what policies and allocations they want to adopt, and have reached the ‘Submission Stage’.

This stage is called the Submission Stage, because once the responses from the upcoming consultation have been collated, the Plan and a summary of the responses will be submitted to the Secretary of State, and arrangements for two Public Examinations into the Plan will be triggered. The Plan is expected to be completed by early 2012.

What is the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan?

We are facing a number of challenges in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough as a result of future housing growth and the impacts of climate change. Such growth needs mineral to be supplied, and waste management facilities to manage waste, for existing and new communities. The Plan identifies sites for mineral extraction and waste management, and gives land use planning policies to guide development.

What is the process for responding?

 
You will have six weeks, from 15 February to 29 March 2010, in which to make your views on the soundness of the Plan known. These will then be sent to the Government so that a Planning Inspector can consider them when he is undertaking the Examinations into the Plan.