From Tim Wetherfield, Urban Growth Project Manager
23 August 2012
Developers are often asked to make payments to the City Council to address the impact of their developments on Cambridge. These developer (or Section 106) contributions are used to provide or improve local amenities such as play areas, parks and open spaces, sports facilities and community centres.
The City Council has agreed to devolve to Area Committees decisions on which new local projects will be funded from particular types of developer contributions. To help inform these decisions, the City Council is holding public meetings in each area to seek views on current facilities and how these could be improved to help meet changing local needs, within the amounts of money available to spend in each area.
The West/Central Area Workshop will be held on Thursday 13 September 2012 at 7.30pm at Castle Methodist Church Hall.
Invitations are being sent out to Residents Associations and local community groups. Members of the public are also welcome to attend and take part. If you would like to, please phone 01223 457200 or email S106@cambridge.gov.uk.
Following the area workshop, we aim to report back to the area committee later in autumn 2012 on the workshop feedback and costed options for possible projects, so that the area committee can then prioritise which projects in the area to take forward.
For more information, see the Council’s website.