
For those of you interested in Cambridge’s local history…
I run the local history project Lost Cambridge.
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Someone snapped up the rights to build on fields north of Cambourne ages ago
This is from one of the submissions (I wrote a guide on how to explore this here) in the call for sites a few years ago. Above – a concept map for North Cambourne – east and west “Nice of the owners and developers to do a large public engagement exercise before drawing up their…

Cambourne’s population to rise to 55,000 people by 2050 according to East West Rail technical report 2023
Which could be an interesting one for the incumbent MP for South Cambridgeshire to debate with the voters at the next general election – only he’s staked his political career on opposing such large housing developments. You can see the table below – one which I threw in at the end of an earlier post…

Honey Hill and Hartree at the Strawberry Fair, Cambridge 2023
Developers for the proposed North East Cambridge site (where the sewage works currently is) were at the Strawberry Fair – and so were Save Honey Hill campaigners opposing them, as this year’s event reflected a rapidly-changing Cambridge If you want to get a feel for Cambridge’s radical edge, go to the Strawberry Fair. The first…

“Let us begin our process of renewal and growth where it always should have started – here, at home, among ourselves”
A rallying call from former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall (she has an interesting family tale about the origins of her double-surname) matches those coming from the communities and local government sectors about overhauling our internal institutions, how we are governed, and how we hold accountable those who do the governing. The context is national…
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