Single Issue Review of the 2015 Local Plan 

The Council recently undertook a Single Issue Review of the East Cambridgeshire Local Plan 2015. The need to review the Local Plan was triggered by a number of factors including:

• the need to re-examine the appropriate housing requirement for the plan period
• to ensure the Local Plan remains up to date

The review was known as a ‘Single Issue Review’ because it focussed on one aspect of the Local Plan only. For the avoidance of doubt, the vast majority of the Local Plan 2015 was not amended.

This webpage first sets out a summary of the consultation stage that took place in 2022, including copies of representations we received. It then sets out all of the documents the Council submitted on 19 July 2022 to the Planning Inspectorate, so that an independent examination of the proposals could take place. 

The examination of the Single Issue Review of the Local Plan concluded on 5 October 2023, when the Inspector's Report was received.  East Cambridgeshire District Council formally accepted the recommendations on the Inspector at a meeting of Full Council on 19 October 2023 and proceeded to adopt the updated Local Plan.