It’s in the Growth Committee Papers for 03 November and yes it is gone 2am in the morning. There are also other items that need scrutinising, including the digital connectivity prospectus. (It’s now 3am. Sorry!)
You can read the Growth Committee papers here – the report is appended to Item 7. Also see the latest on the Chatteris Reservoir at https://fensreservoir.co.uk/ by Anglian Water.
Above – summary diagram version of the 10 ways to make the CPCA area more water resilient.
Recommendations in the report:
Copied and pasted:
“The actions focus on things that can be done in the next 3-5 years and include a
mix of:
- Embedding water resilience in key CPCA plans and strategies, especially the
Spatial Development Strategy; - Engaging in water resources, drainage and flood risk planning processes;
- Convene and lead coordinated action;
- Supporting the delivery of critical water infrastructure;
- Investigating funding opportunities to support local community and business water
resilience; - Building water management skills;
- Supporting innovation;
- Advocating and influencing for national policy change, for example on building
standards and product water efficiency labelling; - Supporting activity that encourages water savings and reuse;
- Taking an active role in emergency preparedness.“
What’s missing are detailed case studies of the above.
What examples of these actions having an impact do we have?
Back to the report itself, the first ten pages summarise the main things but given the number of you who are knowledgeable and passionate about our rivers and chalk streams, the details in the spreadsheets contained in the overall report – another 60 pages, will be of strong interest.
Above – how well are we doing?
Digital connectivity prospectus
Connectivity remains an issue, and the report at item 12 may interest those of you living outside built up areas.
And finally, tourism – or visitors.
The business plan is
Above – Local Visitor Economy Partnership Business Plan, Item 10 Appendix A, p10
The whole LVEP workstream is highly dependent on transport. I didn’t get much sense un the papers that the work on improving transport is properly connected to the work on tourism and visitors.
A tourist information centre for Cambridge?
The old independently-run one in The Guildhall is now closed and is now in the Market due to the Civic Quarter project. At least someone was willing to take the risk on running one where local government had failed, as I noted in December 2024 here. How does the business plan look from your perspective? I thought ‘Tourist Information’ was a widely-recognised brand and concept. But hey – I’ll leave that one to people who work in the industry and people who go on holidays more than I do!
Above – some previous branding drafts.
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