The Cambridge City Fringes Joint Committee Order 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 1st July 2009, establishes a joint committee for the parts of the administrative areas of the city of Cambridge and district of South Cambridgeshire known as the Cambridge City Fringes. The constituent authorities are Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council.

Article 3 of the Order constitutes the joint committee as the local planning authority for parts of the city of Cambridge and the district of South Cambridgeshire for the purposes of Part 2 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. Together with article 4 it provides for the joint committee to exercise the functions of a local planning authority in relation to the preparation, submission and revision of a joint local development scheme and the local development documents specified in that scheme. Article 4(2) modifies section 15 of that Act so as to require the joint committee to submit their local development scheme to the Secretary of State not later than 1st January 2010.

Articles 5 to 11 deal with membership and voting rights, disqualification, tenure of office, sub-committees, meetings and proceedings, secondments and expenses.

The Schedule to the Order makes further provision as to meetings and proceedings of the joint committee and enables the joint committee to make standing orders for the regulation of its proceedings.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen, and the impact on the public sector is minimal.