Information relating to planning applications at Redman Close, Ely and ECTC
Request received 1 September 2026
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I wish to request information relating to a housing development and a proposed housing development at Redman Close, Ely.
The relevant Planning references are 20/01006/FUM and 25/00717/F3M. In both cases the applicant is East Cambs Trading Company Limited, which I understand to be a Company wholly owned by your Council.
Please, pursuant to this request, provide the following information and documentation:-
1. I note that your Council’s Chief Executive, Emma Grima, is the sole Director of Palace Green Homes Limited, a Company which, as with East Cambs Trading Company Limited, has the same registered office address as your Council. The website of Palace Green Homes Limited describes East Cambs Trading Company as “the Company behind Palace Green Homes”. What is the meaning, in legal terms of this statement ? Please advise and describe the nature of the commercial relationship between these two Companies.
2. I note that Palace Green Homes Limited has, in every year since its formation, filed accounts for a dormant Company, the most recent being for the financial year ending 30th April 2025. Please advise how, in such circumstances, this Company is able to carry on the trade or business of property development as extensively described on its website and in other sources of information.
3. The published Business Plan of East Cambs Trading Company for 2026/27, under the section headed “MOD Phase 3” states “The Company has entered into a land-swap contract with the NHS as part of its enabling works for the new Princess of Wales hospital” going on to then describe the land so exchanged. Please provide of copy of this contract.
4. Within this same Business Plan, under “Arbour Square, Ely - ( Phase 2 ) New Build” reference is made to the history of planning revisions for the site the subject of application referenced 20/01006/FUM. It is then stated “In 2025/26 ECTC signed contracts with Havebury Housing Partnership to secure the site as 100% affordable housing for Social Rent.” Please provide a copy of:-
- the contracts in question
- all correspondence and related documentation passing between East Cambs Trading Company, your Council, and Havebury Housing Partnership, in relation to the properties or units, and intended properties or units, the subject of application 20’01006/FUM
5. Please advise whether there have been communications between East Cambs Trading Company, your Council, and Havebury Housing Partnership, in relation to the letting or management of the intended properties or units, the subject of Planning application referenced 25/00717/F3M. If so, please provide copies of all correspondence and documentation passing between these parties, to include any contracts or draft contracts prepared.
6. Please provide a copy of your Council’s current guidance for Social Housing allocations pursuant to Part 6 of the Housing Act 1996 together with any earlier superseded versions which may have been in force from 1st January 2025 to date.
7. Please also provide copies of correspondence, meeting minutes, and other relevant documentation relating to consideration and making of decision by your Council, Palace Green Homes, and/or East Cambs Trading Company, of the intended breakdown of the properties or units, and intended properties or units, within both Planning references 20 /01006 and 25/00717/F3M. Such disclosure should cover the identifying of, and rationale for, the properties and/or units selected or earmarked as between those to be offered for sale, and those to be offered as Affordable Housing - to include in the case of Affordable Housing, those to be let and managed as Social Housing.