Planning Committee
OK is not OK At Cambridge Past, Present & Future, we're not anti-development. The CPPF Planning Committee's role is to influence the design of new communities, so that they are as attractive as possible as places for people to live and work. Its Heritage Working Group looks at existing areas and smaller projects, and seeks to maintain and enhance the quality of the conservation areas. For the Heritage Working Group's web page please click here. We campaign for quality: OK is not OK. Cambridge deserves much better than that. |
We want to see
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Forthcoming workshops (21 September 2010) It is predicted that in 15 years time 1 person in 5 will be over 65. How should new dwellings and communities be designed to prepare for that? How will they be paid for? |
Past workshops
Conservation Areas (June 2010) Rivers in towns (April 2010) Tall buildings in Cambridge (March 2010) Development of the East of England (September 2009) |
Submissions Letter dated 8 July 2010 to Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on proposals for planning and local governance Regional spatial strategy - November 2009 County Council Transport Commission - April 2009 |
Consultations Improvements to Cherry Hinton Hall Cambridge "Eastern Gate" - ends 17 September 2010 New shops to serve Cambridge’s north - west - ends 18 October 2010 DEFRA consultation on the natural environment - ends 30 October 2010 Open space and recreation facilities - expected early 2011 |
November 2009
Fringe developments
Trumpington Meadows - about 1200 homes
Northwest Cambridge - 3000 homes
In the autumn of 2008 the Cambridge Association of Architects published an excellent account of the major developments in and around Cambridge. To see this, click here.
Although central government has now relaxed its direction of how rapidly the region expands, and is leaving it to the local authorities to decide, it is likely that an ambitious building programme in the greater Cambridge area will continue. There is a serious shortage of homes -- there are 10,000 names on the waiting list in Cambridge and South Cambs, and people who at present are forced to live far from their work want to move to move closer to it so that they do not need to use their car.
A report by the Centre for Cities observes that Cambridge is a key economic driver for the wider region and an asset for the UK as a whole, attracting investment in knowledge intensive industries that otherwise might not have come to the UK at all. According to the Greater Cambridge Partnership, Greater Cambridge creates output to the value of £12bn, employs 360,000 people and includes 1,400 businesses in high tech sectors.
Updated 24.8.10