About us.

 

The Forum brings together those with development and landowning interest in the Cambridge region, in order to provide a clear, consistent and well-informed voice, providing leadership and advice on issues relating to the delivery of growth and development potential in the Cambridge region.

Our objectives are to:

  • Offer information and views to planning authorities and to the Local Enterprise Partnerships

  • Become a focus for developers’ input to the Cambridge City Deal

  • Provide practical information regarding the constraints on development delivery and to pursue practical action to seek resolutions

  • Give high-level strategic advice in support of those giving leadership to strategic development planning.

  • Identify issues with the delivery of planning, infrastructure and transportation to the region from a practical perspective.  To make practical suggestions to the various stakeholders that can result in improvements in the level of service and timescales.

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Our Team.

  • Andrew Lansley

    Chair

    Andrew is a former Cabinet minister, MP for South Cambridgeshire between 1997 and 2015 and now an active member in the House of Lords.

  • Sally Low

    Secretariat

    Sally Low is the Founder and Managing Director of LOW, who runs the CDF Secretariat. Sally has extensive experience of managing large and complex policy based communications projects across the EU, including for the British Chambers of Commerce where she was Director of Policy and External Affairs

  • Emma Chaplin

    Emma Chaplin

    Secretariat

    Emma Chaplin is an Account Executive, Campaigns, focusing on strategic communications and EU policy at LOW Associates. Emma has experience managing media campaigns, having previously interned at IIRR, an non-profit organisation working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Emma graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in English Literature.

  • Joseph Oliver

    Joseph Oliver

    Secretariat

    Joseph is a Communications Intern at LOW Associate, supporting the teams working on the European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP), SME Assembly, and the Cambridgeshire Development Forum. Joseph graduated from a BA in Geography from King’s College London in 2023, and is currently completing his MSc in Media and Communications Governance at the London School of Economics.