Today we offer a warm welcome to Rachel Maclean Minister of State for Housing and Planning.

Agenda

1. Welcome and introduction to the CDF

2. Summary presentation on the development context in the Cambridge region. Andy Moffat Planning Director, Savills.

3. Securing alignment of plans including the wider travel-to-work area , transport plans and utilities. 

4. The current issues of water resources and water neutrality.

5. Housing supply, plan-making and the NPPF consultation.

6. Environmental Factors in plan-making, including adaptations to Net Zero and the challenges of the existing housing stock.

7. Employment sites in plan-making and the opportunities and challenges in the Cambridgeshire region.

8. Resourcing the planning system , including young planners and planning performance agreements.

9. East Cambs Single Issue Review and the anomaly of a limited 5-year review but no new Plan process.

10. Government plans for large new settlements in the region and the creation of Development Corporations.