Cambridge city councillors will determine six planning applications on 19th November – half of them for sites in Queen Edith’s and the other half for Trumpington. If you want to speak on the applications or listen to the debate, you will need to go into town, as they are being heard not locally at the South Area meeting, but at the Guildhall.

All three of the Queen Edith’s applications have objections to them and are controversial, so it is surprising that the meeting is not to take place in the area where people live. It is a regressive step to take local decision-making out of the community and require residents to go to the Council rather than the other way round, but possibly a sign of what we can expect now that the committee is chaired by a Labour councillor.

Here is an agenda, and a short summary of the applications in Queen Edith’s:

• 12/0956/CLUED – Cantabrigian RUFC, Sedley Taylor Road |Certificate of Lawfulness for the car park at the HRSFC sports pavilion to be used as such
• 12/1033/FUL – 100 Glebe Road |New house to replace existing garage
• 12/1020/FUL – 167 Queen Edith’s Way| Extension

For details of these applications use this link   http://idox.cambridge.gov.uk/online-applications/ and enter the reference number.

The meeting starts at 7.30 p.m. and will be in the Committee Rooms at the Guildhall. It is open to the public but you can only speak if you have made a written representation to the application on which you wish to speak. You also need to give notice to the Committee Manager by noon on the 16th November.

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