Witchford Neighbourhood Plan

Latest update: 20 March 2025 Modified Plan adopted

On 20 March 2025, East Cambridgeshire District Council formally made the modified Witchford Neighbourhood Plan part of the development plan for East Cambridgeshire.

The plan is to be formally known as the Witchford Neighbourhood Plan 2019-2031 (as modified 2025).

This updated plan has, in simple terms, added a new 'climate change' chapter to what was its previous neighbourhood plan adopted in 2020.

Key documents

Witchford Neighbourhood Plan 2019-2031 as modified March 2025.pdf (PDF, 6.88MB) (PDF, 6.88MB)

Witchford Final Landscape Appraisal Report (reduced).pdf (PDF, 6.88MB) (PDF, 6.88MB)

Witchford modified NP examiner's report March 25.pdf (PDF, 823.95KB) (PDF, 823.95KB)

Background

In November 2024, Witchford Parish Council formally submitted the proposed Witchford Modified Plan to East Cambridgeshire District Council for independent examination and a final round of public and statutory consultation. After the consultation stage, the proposed modified neighbourhood plan and other supporting material were considered by an independent examiner, David Kaiserman BA DipTP MRTPI. The examiner issued his report in March 2025.

As the proposed modifications did not involve any alteration to the policies contained in the neighbourhood plan as adopted in March 2020, these were not part of the examination. The previously adopted Witchford Neighbourhood Plan was formally made by East Cambridgeshire District Council on 21 May 2020, following a successful referendum on 19 March 2020.