This is the last chance to have your say before the documents are sent to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government – at which point ministers will direct the Planning Inspectorate to open a public inquiry with public cross-examinations (mainly from developers and their representatives!)
Get thee down to a public event!
The consultation is now live via https://www.greatercambridgeplanning.org/local-plan and the list of public events on that page for September 2026 is:
- Tuesday 1 September, 2pm to 4pm: Arbury Community Centre, Campkin Rd, Cambridge, CB4 2LD
- Tuesday 1 September, 4pm to 7:30pm: Whittlesford Memorial Hall, Mill Ln, Whittlesford, CB22 4NE
- Wednesday 2 September, 4pm to 7pm: Marleigh Community Centre, The Hangar Building, 2 Jubilee Square, Cambridge, CB5 8BX
- Wednesday 2 September, 4pm to 7:30pm: Papworth Village Hall, Ermine St South, Papworth Everard, CB23 3RD
- Thursday 3 September, 2pm to 4pm: Gamlingay EcoHub, Stocks Lane, Gamlingay, SG19 3JR
- Thursday 3 September, 4pm to 7:30pm: Great Abington Primary School, 68 High Street, Great Abington, CB21 6AE
- Friday 4 September, 4pm to 7:30pm: The Old School Hall, St Barnabas Centre, Mill Rd, Cambridge, CB1 2BD
- Monday 7 September, 4pm to 7:30pm: Melbourn Hub, 30 High Street, Melbourn, SG8 6DZ
- Monday 7 September, 3:30pm to 6pm: Bar Hill Village Hall, The Spinney, Bar Hill, CB23 8SU
- Tuesday 8 September, 4pm to 7:30pm: The Salvation Army, 7 Station Road, Waterbeach, CB25 9HT
- Wednesday 9 September, 4:15pm to 7pm: Nightingale Pavilion, Nightingale Ave, Cambridge, CB1 8SQ
- Wednesday 9 September, 4pm to 7pm: Great Cambourne Cricket Pavilion, Back Lane, Great Cambourne, CB23 6DZ
- Friday 11 September, 10am to 5pm: The Cambridge Room, Grafton Centre, Fitzroy Street, Cambridge, CB1 1PS
“There is no need to register in advance to attend. However, if you are able to register via eventbrite, it will help us plan staffing and ensure we have enough resources available on the day.”
The events are also listed on the GCSP’s EventBrite page here for those of you registered with it
Are you planning on wading through the huge number of documents, or targeting the places and issues you are interested in?
I’m trying to help those of you interested in the latter with a new Future Cambridge page that collates the various blogposts I’ve published along with links to important reports and documents, and then grouping them into themes. For example I’m trying to pick out some of the issues that many of you have raised with me over the years/decades and highlighting the independent consultants’ reports that the councils have commissioned (at significant expense). These help form the evidence bases for their policies and make it harder for wealthy vested interests to overturn them – especially the property speculators whose primary interest is short-term profit, not the long term good of the communities left with the developments at the end.
- Wellbeing and Social Inclusion Topic Paper
- Infrastructure Topic Paper
- Jobs Topic Paper (incl Adult Education & Lifelong Learning)
- Skyline and Tall Buildings
Above – the list so far of the issues and reports I’ve covered in the supporting evidence
Further updates are being published by the GCSP Service on their LI Page here
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