Next Tuesday will see South Cambs District Council identifying sites for development to meet the requirements of the Regional Spatial Strategy. Even though the RSS is a huge volume of bureacratic gobbledegook, it is nevertheless something we need to pay attention to.
Because of the building slow down and other recession reasons, big developments like Northstowe are not coming on stream as quickly as they should, therefore we have a shortfall in the numbers we originally put into the RSS and we need to find them.
We have to do this, because, as nature abhors a vacuum, if we don't, then a speculative developer could pop up and say "here's a site all ready that could take upwards of 12,000 houses." If the district planning committee then turned down those proposals, then the planner would be off to the Planning Inspector to appeal, quicker than you can say "eco-town, sneako-town" and the appeal might succeed.
So we have to do this. As the Americans say, eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
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