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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear
All,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Happy
New Year! </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It
starts with a bang! Final Consultation on a schedule of modifications on the
Cambridge/South Cambs Local Plan started today and will finish <b>5pm, Friday Feb 16.</b> </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
Cambridge Local Plan and South Cambridgeshire Local Plan were submitted for
examination in March 2014. The plans set out how the development needs in the
area will be met to 2031. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Why are the Councils carrying out consultation?</span></u></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Following
completion of examination hearings into the Cambridge Local Plan and South
Cambridgeshire Local Plan in July 2017, the plans have reached the next key
stage in the process. The Inspectors have now asked that consultation be
carried out on Main Modifications which may be necessary in order for the Local
Plans to be found ‘sound’, although this should not imply that they have come
to any firm conclusions on the soundness of the Plans with or without these
modifications.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
Councils are therefore consulting on the Main Modifications identified by the
Inspectors and the associated Sustainability Appraisal of the Main
Modifications. At the same time the Councils have published some Additional
(minor) Modifications, such as typographical errors and factual updates.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For details
of where you can view the consultation documents and how to submit comments see
attached or alternatively websites:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/mainmods" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.cambridge.gov.uk/mainmods</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> or </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.scambs.gov.uk/mainmods" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">www.scambs.gov.uk/mainmods</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">What can you make comments on?</span></u></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Main
Modifications Consultation Report explains the purpose of the consultation and
includes schedules of modifications for each Local Plan. The modifications
identify specific changes to the wording of the Local Plans submitted in March
2014 or to the associated Policies Maps; the modifications contained in the
consultation document need to be read alongside the Local Plans:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">          
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cambridge Local Plan: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/local-plan-review" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.cambridge.gov.uk/local-plan-review</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">          
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">South Cambridgeshire Local Plan: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.scambs.gov.uk/localplan" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.scambs.gov.uk/localplan</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This
consultation does not repeat </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN">the consultations already carried out </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN">on the
Proposed Submission Local Plans in Summer 2013 and the Proposed Modifications
Joint Consultation in December 2015.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> As a
result this consultation does not include modifications that have previously
been consulted upon, unless that modification has been further amended
subsequently. Where such amended modifications are included in this
consultation, <b>comments are only invited on the new parts of the
modifications (bold text) </b>and not earlier parts of modifications that have
previously been consulted on. The ‘provisional’ modification from 2015 to allocate
land south of Cambridge Biomedical Campus for employment development is
included in this consultation, with revisions.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Any
comments that go beyond commenting on the Main Modifications or the
accompanying Sustainability Appraisal will not be registered.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">What happens next?</span></u></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
Inspectors will consider all the registered comments and decide whether any
further hearings are required, or any issues need to be revisited. At the end
of the examination process they will present their final conclusions in their
Reports into the examination of each Local Plan. If the plans are found
‘sound’, with any necessary modifications, they would be able to be adopted by
the Councils.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We will
be in touch again shortly with more information about this and other dates for your
diaries,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Best
wishes,</span></p>



<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Wendy</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Wendy Blythe<br></div>Chair, FeCRA<br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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