Supplementary planning documents

Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) add further detail to the policies in the Local Plan. They can be used to provide further guidance for development on specific sites, or on particular issues, such as design.

These documents can be a material consideration in planning decisions but are not part of the development plan.

• Affordable housing SPD
• Biodiversity SPD
• Cambridge Biomedical Campus SPD
• Cambridge Neighbourhoods Design Code for Arbury, King's Hedges and parts of West Chesterton SPD
• Cambridgeshire flood and water SPD
• Eastern Gate SPD
• Greater Cambridge sustainable design and construction SPD
• Health Impact Assessment SPD
• Making space for people SPD
• Old Press/Mill Lane SPD
• Planning Obligations Strategy SPD
• Public art SPD

Development frameworks and briefs

Development frameworks and briefs are usually prepared to guide development on larger sites in the city.

They enable stakeholders to be aware of any key issues and to become involved in dealing with them, before planning applications are submitted. They help to avoid delays during the formal consideration of planning applications and provide a degree of certainty for the financing and programming of developments.

These documents can be a material consideration in planning decisions but are not part of the development plan.

• Grafton Area of Major Change: Masterplan and Guidance SPD
• Land north of Cherry Hinton SPD
• Mill Road Depot Planning and Development Brief SPD
• Mitcham's Corner Development Framework SPD
• New museums site development framework SPD
• Ridgeons site SPD

Planning guidance

Planning guidance documents may include an initial assessment to help inform a strategy or outline the steps that an applicant might need to follow to address a particular matter.

These documents can be a material consideration in planning decisions but are not part of the development plan.

• Foodstore provision in north west Cambridge
• Open Space and Recreation Strategy
• Park Street car park planning guidance

The following guidance notes have now been replaced with contents in the Local Plan 2018:

• Cambridge skyline guidance – in policy 60 and appendix F
• Protection of public houses – in policy 76 and appendices C and K
• Roof extension guidance – in appendix E
• Shopfront guidance – in appendix H