Do plans for "New Town" signal end to Cambridgeshires green belt.
Hereward | 20.09.2007 21:29 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Cambridge
Gordon Brown plans to build 3 million new homes in the coming years. It seems Cambridgeshire is going to be one of the first counties to be on the recieving end of these plans, but at what cost?
In order to solve the social housing problem currently facing England the Labour government has plans on a grand design. With 3 million new homes to be built where exactly are the government planning on putting them?
It would seem Cambridgeshires green belt is about to find out. On October the 9th a government inspector will be arriving at Haddenham in East Cambridgeshire to review plans for the building of 8,000 new homes on 1,686 acres of green belt. This project is expected to take 20 years and see Multiplex, the builders of Wembley Stadium net the cool sum of more than one thousand million pounds.
It would seem though the villages of Haddenham are not prepared to see this happen without a fight. A day of action on October the 9th has been called for and the local population have raised their own "Army".
In what is being termed the biggest threat to East Cambridgeshire since it's existance will the government listen to the local people? Only time will tell.
You can sign a petition against the proposed plans at:
http//petitions.pm.gov.uk/SAYNO2MEREHAM
And contact the Say No To Mereham campaign at:
Julie Parr on 01353 741380.
It would seem Cambridgeshires green belt is about to find out. On October the 9th a government inspector will be arriving at Haddenham in East Cambridgeshire to review plans for the building of 8,000 new homes on 1,686 acres of green belt. This project is expected to take 20 years and see Multiplex, the builders of Wembley Stadium net the cool sum of more than one thousand million pounds.
It would seem though the villages of Haddenham are not prepared to see this happen without a fight. A day of action on October the 9th has been called for and the local population have raised their own "Army".
In what is being termed the biggest threat to East Cambridgeshire since it's existance will the government listen to the local people? Only time will tell.
You can sign a petition against the proposed plans at:
http//petitions.pm.gov.uk/SAYNO2MEREHAM
And contact the Say No To Mereham campaign at:
Julie Parr on 01353 741380.
Hereward
Additions
The WAGON protest group.
20.09.2007 21:52
The protest group against the new settlement can be reached here:
http://www.wilburton.org.uk/Mereham/
http://www.wilburton.org.uk/Mereham/
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