Decision details

The Greater Cambridge housing trajectory is used by the Councils to calculate their housing land supply and to show anticipated housing delivery against their housing requirement in the adopted Local Plans. The housing trajectory and housing land supply calculations are required to be updated annually. The new five year period starts on 1 April 2026, and therefore calculations for this period (2026-2031) need to be agreed and published.

An alternative option would be to not publish the Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Housing Land Supply Report. However, national planning policy and guidance requires all local planning authorities with an adopted plan of more than five years old to identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to deliver a minimum of five years’ worth of housing against their local housing need (from the standard method). A new housing trajectory is required to establish the Greater Cambridge housing land supply for the purposes of making planning decisions.

A link to the webpage can be found here: Monitoring delivery and land use in Greater Cambridge

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Transport approved:

a.    the Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Housing Land Supply Report to be published on the Councils’ shared planning service website.

b.    to delegate any further minor editing changes to the Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Housing Land Supply Report to the Joint Director for Planning where they are technical matters.