From: "John Reynolds" To: "Girton Website" ; "Dry Drayton News" ; "Bar Hill News" ; "Bar Hill Parish Council" ; "Bar Hill website" ; "Binnie Harvey-Boxworth" ; "Dry Drayton Web Site" ; "Girton Parish Council" ; "Girton Parish News" ; "Irish Nick-Dry Drayton" ; "Lolworth Parish Council" Subject: Government gives county more time to consider public views Date: 12 August 2007 13:15 Government gives county more time to consider public views Planning chiefs have been granted more time to look at the hundreds of views made by the public on major proposals to deal with the County's waste and mineral extraction. Around 1,400 responses were made to a massive public consultation on the complex issue of where to build new waste and recycling facilities as well as quarries and mineral extraction measures. Cambridgeshire County Council planners were set to submit plans to the Secretary of State in September, however, an overwhelming public response led to the Council asking for an extension to the timescale allowing them to hold an extra public consultation. The additional time will allow planners to examine suggestions of new sites for Recycling Centres and Water Treatment works in and around Cambridge. A further public consultation will be held in September or October next year with a view to submitting it to the Secretary of State in Autumn 2009. With more than 47,000 new homes planned to be built in and around Cambridgeshire it is vital that the facilities needed to cope with the rubbish generated and their construction are properly planned. In particular officers will be working on: * demonstrating that the proposed relocation of the Waste Water Treatment Works from near Milton to Honey Hill in Fen Ditton is technically and financially deliverable * identifying the pros and cons of moving the Waste Water Treatment Works by considering the implications of the 'do nothing' option * providing an assessment of the additional sites suggested for location of Recycling Centres, the relocation of the Waste Water Treatment Works and mineral extraction in the county Cambridgeshire County Council, together with Peterborough City Council, reviewed the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan when the Government invited all authorities to review the timetables for preparing their plans. The proposals have already been through two informal public consultations, and more recently an extended formal consultation on preferred options. The extra public consultation planned for 2008 would include the findings from the investigations into the public's suggestions. Cambridgeshire County Councillor John Reynolds, Lead Member for Planning and Regional Matters, said: "I am pleased we have acceptance to this new timetable which will give us more time to undertake the essential research necessary to make sure that any proposals coming forward to the Council and then to the inspector are robust." Letters are currently being sent to all stakeholders, including the parish councils, explaining that the extension to the timetable has been agreed. John Reynolds -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.13/946 - Release Date: 10/08/2007 15:50