Daniel Zeichner MP discusses the Government’s purchase of the airport site with Julian Clover on Cambridge Radio
You can listen to their conversation here
“We are a global city – people look to us from all over the world, and it’s a slight embarrassment that when they arrive at Cambridge Station they are confronted with a 40 minute bus journey where everything stops”
Daniel Zeichner MP to Julian Clover, 04 June 2026
He also called for an upgrade to the A&E at Addenbrooke’s as one of his three ‘wishes’ including housing and transport.
Talking of transport, Cambridge Bus Users have their AGM coming up next month
They are finalising dates so if you are interested in improved bus journeys and services, get in touch with them.
It’s striking that it needs direct central government intervention to make all of these things happen rather – but perhaps understandable given the failures of previous governments
Also we have been here before.
Above – ILN 09 July 1966 in the British Newspaper Archive – which I have transcribed here.
“As home of much of Britain’s finest architecture both old and new, Cambridge deserves the best in planning. Is it getting it?” Asked the ILN
Controversial statement re new architecture judging by the number of buildings in the 20 years after WWII that have since been demolished – including at least two secondary schools, a swimming pool, two major office blocks, and more than a few council houses!
Above – some excerpts from A Guide to Cambridge New Architecture (1972)
A warning against subtopia
In 1955 Ian Nairn wrote about the negative aspects of suburban expansion of recent decades.
Above – Introduction: Outrage Against Subtopia (1955) by Ian Nairn
Nairn’s follow-up book from 1956 – the counter attack, also makes for interesting reading
…which is why I like the concept of St Neots and their Big Listen.
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