On 24 January 2023, Huntingdonshire District Council's Cabinet agreed to the preparation of a full update to the adopted Local Plan which will set out a plan for how the district will grow over future decades.
Below is a list of the consultations which we have held so far for the Local Plan to 2046, the links will take you to our online portal so that you can view and what people said.
Consultation on a Statement of Community Involvement and Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report ran from 1 February to 15 March 2023.
Consultation on the Land Availability Assessment Methodology and Settlement Hierarchy Methodology ran from 29 March to 10 May 2023.
The Call for Sites ran from 29 March to 7 June 2023. Further details can be found on the Call for Sites webpage.
The Issues Engagement Papers consultations ran from 26 April to 5 July 2023. There were 3 options to help people respond, comments on the consultations can be viewed by visiting the links below:
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The Issues Engagement Paper - an in-depth look at the issues including detailed questions to encourage comprehensive responses
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The Issues Summary Paper - a quick look at the headline issues, with one or two open questions to get opinions
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The Issues Easy Read Version - a simplified document with tick box questions.
The following documents were consulted on between 18 September 2024 and 27 November 2024:
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Further Issues and Options - Set out options for what may be included in the new local plan. It also asks some questions about what is important to you.
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Land Availability Assessments - Assessed sites that were put forward by landowners, developers, agents and interested third parties to see if they are potentially suitable or unsuitable for development.
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Sustainability Appraisal - Assessed our strategies, options, sites and future policies against a series of sustainability objectives.
The following documents were consulted on between 23 April 2025 for 6 weeks until Wednesday 4 June 2025:
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Additional Sites Land Availability Assessments – Assessed 68 additional sites that were submitted to us between 1 August 2024 and 31 January 2025 to see if they are potentially suitable or unsuitable for development.
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Additional Sites Sustainability Appraisals – Assessed the sustainability of the additional sites submitted. Each site is assessed against 16 sustainability objectives based on the climate emergency, environmental, social and economic themes