About us.
The Forum brings together those with development and landowning interest in the Cambridge region, in order to provide a clear, consistent and well-informed voice, providing leadership and advice on issues relating to the delivery of growth and development potential in the Cambridge region.
Our objectives are to:
Offer information and views to planning authorities and to the Local Enterprise Partnerships
Become a focus for developers’ input to the Cambridge City Deal
Provide practical information regarding the constraints on development delivery and to pursue practical action to seek resolutions
Give high-level strategic advice in support of those giving leadership to strategic development planning.
Identify issues with the delivery of planning, infrastructure and transportation to the region from a practical perspective. To make practical suggestions to the various stakeholders that can result in improvements in the level of service and timescales.
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The team.
Andrew Lansley
Chair
Andrew is a former Cabinet minister, MP for South Cambridgeshire between 1997 and 2015 and now an active member in the House of Lords.
Sally Low
Secretariat
Sally Low is the Founder and Managing Director of LOW, who runs the CDF Secretariat. Sally has extensive experience of managing large and complex policy based communications projects across the EU, including for the British Chambers of Commerce where she was Director of Policy and External Affairs