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Greater Cambridge Local Plan: updates following First Proposals

The Greater Cambridge Local Plan: updates following First Proposals includes the following:

  • October 2024: Evidence update – Greater Cambridge Office and Laboratory Employment Trajectory
  • September 2024: Evidence update – Greater Cambridge Growth Sectors Study: Life science and ICT locational, land and accommodation needs
  • February 2023: Greater Cambridge Local Plan: Development Strategy Update (Regulation 18: Preferred Options 2022)

October 2024: Evidence update – Greater Cambridge Office and Laboratory Employment Trajectory

In October 2024 Greater Cambridge Shared Planning published a trajectory on office and laboratory employment space commitments. This trajectory will be updated periodically. 

September 2024: Evidence update – Greater Cambridge Growth Sectors Study: Life science and ICT locational, land and accommodation needs 

In September 2024 Greater Cambridge Shared Planning published a study on the employment space requirements for the life science and ICT sectors that notably drive employment growth in Greater Cambridge. The study builds upon the employment evidence set out in the Employment & Housing Evidence Base Update 2023.

Both documents are available in the document library below.

February 2023: Greater Cambridge Local Plan: Development Strategy Update (Regulation 18: Preferred Options 2022)

The Greater Cambridge Local Plan: Development Strategy Update.

The Development Strategy Update was agreed by Cambridge City Council on 17 January 2023 and by South Cambridgeshire District Council on 6 February 2023.

 All associated documents are available in pdf format in the document library below. 

Development Strategy Update documents 

Documents relevant to the Development Strategy Update include: 

  1. New documents produced to support the Development Strategy Update, available in the document library below. 

  2. Previously published evidence documents supporting the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, available at Greater Cambridge Local Plan – First Proposals document library, November 2021 

  • Greater Cambridge Local Plan: First Proposals (Preferred Options 2021) 

  • Supporting documents: all shown 

  • Topic paper: Strategy topic paper, September 2021 

     Evidence base:  

  • all documents listed under Strategy 

  • Integrated Water Management Study - Outline Water Cycle Strategy (Stantec), August 2021  

  1. Responses to the First Proposals consultation, which can be viewed in full on the First Proposals website. We also asked for comments using an anonymous quick questionnaire, results are in the form of a spreadsheet, and drawn out some of the key results in our report on the consultation. Call for sites submissions can be found on the Call for Sites page.