Planning Committee

The purpose of the committee is to influence the planning of new developments and the design of new communities, so that they are as attractive as possible as places for people to live and work

A list of members of the Committee is here

 

We celebrate the Past, respect the Present, and seek to influence the Future

  

CB1

CB1 is the name given to the extensive development near the station. It is the largest development project ever planned for Cambridge (estimated cost £850 million), and is the City's most important gateway. For up-to-date information click here, and here for a plan of the site.

Work is starting on a new station platform.
  

Localism and planning

Localism Seminar - CambridgePPF  

The Planning System is being reformed.

How will such changes affect Cambridge and surrounding communities?

How can we prepare and benefit from the 'new way of thinking' when the Localism Bill is finalised in spring next year?

Click here for material from the workshop on 14 July 2011

  

Preparing for old age

News that now more than a quarter of children aged 16 and under can expect to live to see their 100th birthday makes it the more urgent for developers to think about the design of houses to enable older people to stay longer in their own homes. See the report from our workshop in September 2010.

  

shaping

Fringe developments


Trumpington Meadows - about 1200 homes
Clay Farm and Glebe Farm - up to 2600 homes
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Bell School - about 350 homes
Northwest Cambridge - 3000 homes
NIAB - about 1800 homes
Orchard Park - increase from 950 to 1200 homes
Cambridge East
Northstowe - 10,000 homes

In addition, approval has been given for 950 additional homes at Cambourne, of which 30% are to be affordable.

In the autumn of 2008 the Cambridge Association of Architects published an excellent account of the major developments in and around Cambridge.

       

Click here for a more recent map.

 

       

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.

Cambridge Past, Present & Future

www.cambridgeppf.org