New Climate Change & Environment Strategy & Action Plan for Cambs

All local councils in the County should be receiving a letter from Cambridgeshire County Council notifying them of a forthcoming consultation on the Council’s Climate Change and Environment Strategy and Action Plan.

The Strategy outlines how the County Council will: reduce the carbon footprint of the Council and the County; help our communities adapt to the change already happening; and enhance nature and the benefits it provides. The County Council is keen to understand what local councils and their communities think of the targets and actions they have set themselves and how you can work with them to bring forward some of the changes that are needed to the way we live and work.

The full letter from Sheryl French, Project Director, Mobilising Local Energy Investment, to local councils can be found here.

The consultation will be available online from 20 December 2019 to 31 January 2020, where you will find a copy of the Strategy documents and the questionnaire, through which you can provide feedback. The consultation will be hosted on ConsultCambs website: https://consultcambs.uk.engagementhq.com/climate-strategy

Please ensure your local council considers the Strategy documents and gives a response. The more local councils give their input, the more resilient and fit for purpose the resulting strategy will be.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan: Proposed Submission Plan Consultation – 15 November 2019 to 09 January 2020 

Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council (we) are preparing a joint Minerals and Waste Local Plan (MWLP) which will replace the current adopted joint plans.

This new MWLP looks forward to cover the period to 2036, and considers the land use planning policies and allocations that are needed to guide minerals and waste management development over this period in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It also considers the provision we need to make in order to ensure that there is a continuity in the supply of mineral to support planned growth; as well as sufficient capacity to manage all types of waste which will be arising from development, and existing and new communities.  

We are writing to inform you that we are consulting on the Proposed Submission version of the joint Minerals and Waste Local Plan, and that between the dates set out below you can make representations on this document.
This consultation is undertaken under Regulation 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012.

 The consultation starts 9:00am on 15 November 2019 and closes at 11:59pm on 09 January 2020. 

The Proposed Submission Plan, along with a number of supporting documents, including a Sustainability Appraisal and a Proposed Submission Policies Map, are available to view online at cambridgeshire.gov.uk/mwlp or peterborough.gov.uk/mwlp.

Details of how to make representations, including accompanying guidance, can also be found online.
The Proposed Submission Plan and supporting documents are also available to view at the following offices:

Cambridgeshire County Council                    and,        Peterborough City
Council Shire Hall (Reception)                                      Town Hall (Reception)
Castle Hill                                                                      Bridge Street
Cambridge                                                                     Peterborough
CB3 0AP                                                                        PE1 1HF