Date: 28 June 2006 14:29
Subject: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Development Plan - Issues and Options
Please ask for: David Hill
Cambridgeshire County Council
Shire Hall
Cambridge CB3 0AP
Direct Dial: 01223 717630
Fax No: (01223) 718537
E-mail: mwplan@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Please ask for: Ann Barnes
Peterborough City Council
Bridge House, Town Bridge
Peterborough, PE1 1HB
Direct Dial: (01733) 453487
Fax No: (01733) 890348
E-mail:planningpolicy@peterborough.gov.uk
Dear Sir / Madam,
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Development Plan Progress
Thank you very much for your response to the Issues and Options Stage of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Development Plan.
We have recently collated representations on Issues and Options Paper 2 and apologise for the delay in notification of your response, this is a result of the high amount of interest, and the time it has taken to input the information into our data-base.
The total number of people who responded to this stage of the Plan was 1,568, making a total 5,814 individual points.
The next stage is for us to consider all of the responses to the consultation, and to take these into account in developing policies and selecting sites for a ‘Preferred Options Plan’. All of the sites that have been suggested, and any others identified through the options process, will be evaluated against a wide range of criteria, including taking into account representations, environmental factors, site availability for development, and how well they fit in with planning policy.
The Preferred Options Plan is the stage at which the Councils’, as minerals and waste planning authorities, say which land use planning policies and site specific allocations they ‘prefer’. This Plan will be available for scrutiny, and will include details of why an option is preferred, and why other options are not.
The Preferred Options Plan will be published in November 2006 (See timetable below). Unless you have requested otherwise, if you have made a representation you will automatically be advised when this Plan is published, and how to view it and make your views known within the statutory six week consultation period. I attach a brief outline of the overall plan process overleaf.
Once again thank you very much for your response. If you have any queries about the process please contact the officers whose details are at the top of the page.
| Yours faithfully Mark Vigor
Head of Strategic Planning
Cambridgeshire County Council |
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Yours faithfully Peter Heath-Brown
Planning Policy Manager
Peterborough City Council |
Minerals and Waste Plan Stages
M&WP Issues and Options
June / July 2005
Jan / April 2006
Public consultation*
Asked for views on issues / options in relation to planning policy matters and suggested sites for consideration within the Plan.
*WE HAVE REACHED THIS STAGE
M&WP Preferred Options Plan
Nov/Dec 2006 Six week public consultation*
The stage at which the Councils’ identify their ‘Preferred Options’ in terms of favoured land use planning policies and allocations for minerals and waste uses. Public views will be invited.
Submission to SoS
Sept/Oct 2007 Six week public consultation*
Following consideration of views on the Preferred Options, the Plan is revised and then published as a draft Plan. A copy of the Plan is sent to the Secretary of State for his consideration. Formal objections may be made at this stage.
Examination
May 2008 Public Inquiry*
When an independent Planning Inspector will consider unresolved objections. Detailed submissions can be made in writing or in person.
Inspector’s Report
Dec 2008
When the Planning Inspector publishes the result of the Inquiry. The Inspectors recommendations are binding.
Adoption
Feb 2009
Adoption of the Plan amended as required by the Inspector.