Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan Review
This page contains the latest information on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan Review.
Scoping consultation and call for sites (August 2026)
Regulation 45 Scoping consultation: minerals and waste plan document Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026
Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council are working jointly to prepare a new Minerals and Waste Local Plan for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to replace the current Plan which was adopted in July 2021. We would like to hear your views on what a new Minerals and Waste Plan should contain and how we should engage you as we prepare the Plan.
The current Minerals and Waste Local Plan was adopted by the Councils during July 2021. It sits alongside the Local Plans prepared by the city and district councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Together, the policies in these plans, and other supporting documents such as masterplans and design guides, are used by the relevant planning authorities to make planning decisions, guiding where future developments should be located.
A Scoping Consultation document and Draft Engagement Strategy have been published on the Cambridgeshire County Council website, and we would welcome your comments during the consultation period below.
A Call for Sites is being run alongside the Scoping Consultation, and operators and developers are encouraged to submit potential future minerals and waste sites for consideration for inclusion within the new Plan. Comments are also invited on the Proposed Site Assessment and Selection Methodology and the Cross Border Issues Paper.
The public consultation runs for 10 weeks and 1 day from Monday 3 August 2026 to Monday 12 October 2026.
For more information and to have your say, please click the button below which opens on the Cambridgeshire County Council website.
Minerals and waste timetable
The Minerals and Waste Timetable sets out the schedule on which the Plan is prepared. It is not a static document and is updated from time-to-time. Government Guidance requires the Council to keep a record of timetables, and these will be added below as they are published:
Data standards tables
Under the Planning Data (England) Regulations 2026 the Council is required to publish certain information in a table format. These tables can be found below:
Notice of intention to commence plan making
Regulation 44 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026 requires the Council to publish a notice of intention to commence minerals and waste plan document preparation.
As of Monday 3 August 2026, Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council hereby give notice of their intention to commence preparation of the minerals and waste plan document, called the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan. This plan will replace the existing Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Local Plan (2021) and will cover the area of County of Cambridgeshire and City of Peterborough.
The timetable for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan can be found above on this webpage.
This notice was prepared by Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council.
A copy of the above notice can be downloaded below:
Visit our Adopted Local Plan: development documents page for further information on the process of reviewing the joint Minerals and Waste Development Plan.