Authority Monitoring Report
Monitoring is essential in order to establish what has been happening in Greater Cambridge; what is happening now, what may happen in the future and what needs to be done to achieve policies and targets.
Councils produce an Authority Monitoring Report every year, which reports on the previous monitoring year from 1 April to 31 March. It contains information about the performance of planning policies set out in the adopted Local Plan and Area Action Plans, and also provides a general portrait of social, economic and environmental conditions in the city.
The Authority Monitoring Report also assesses the Council’s progress in producing its Local Plan and Area Action Plans against the timetable set out in the Local Development Scheme. The annual publication of an Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) is a statutory requirement for all Local Authorities. The Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service produces a joint report for Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils.
We have now published the Authority Monitoring Report for 2023 to 2024. Older reports can be found in our Reports Archive.
- Greater Cambridge Authority Monitoring Report 2023 to 2024
- Authority Monitoring Report appendix 1 2023 to 2024
- Authority Monitoring Report appendix 2 2023 to 2024
Infrastructure Statements
We have produced a series of Infrastructure Funding Statements showing information relating to contributions secured, allocated, used and retained. These can viewed on our Developer contributions (Section 106) webpage.
Housing trajectory
A housing trajectory is used by Councils to calculate their housing land supply and also to demonstrate that anticipated housing delivery will meet or exceed their housing requirement.
We review the Greater Cambridge housing trajectory and housing land supply calculations annually and it is published in April. The housing trajectory is prepared jointly for Greater Cambridge, consistent with the approach set out in the adopted Local Plans 2018.
The Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Housing Land Supply Report (April 2025) concludes that we jointly have 5.5 years of housing land supply for the 2025-2030 period.
National planning policy and guidance sets out the circumstances where planning policies should be considered out of date when making decisions on planning applications, and this includes where the local planning authority cannot demonstrate a five-year housing land supply. On the basis of our housing land supply calculations for Greater Cambridge, this does not apply to Cambridge or South Cambridgeshire. This is relevant for any planning applications that are being considered.
Older reports can be found in our Reports Archive.
Housing Delivery Test
The Housing Delivery Test (HDT) is an annual assessment of actual housing delivery over the previous 3 years, measured against the housing requirement for the district for that same time period. It was introduced in 2018, and is conducted by the Department for Housing, Levelling Up and Communities (DHLUC) using information supplied to them by local authorities. National planning policy and guidance sets out the consequences of different results of the Housing Delivery Test.
The latest set of HDT results were published in December 2024. The result for Cambridge is 114%. The result for South Cambridgeshire is 153%.
There are therefore no consequences as to how we determine planning applications, resulting from the HDT results published in December 2024 for Cambridge or South Cambridgeshire.