[Members] December Update - Greenways seminar; Histon, Milton, Cambourne to Cambridge schemes ; Consultations: CB1, Hobson's Brook, Driftway, Ditton Meadows; Spaces & Streets

Tue Dec 12 16:31:11 GMT 2017

*Update - December 12 *

*Dear All,*

*Greenways*

FeCRA organised a successful seminar for those involved in the Greater
Cambridge Partnership Greenways Project to explore issues together
informally. Mill Road Community TV recorded the seminar for us see
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfNi__I8Dl92Aj7QQw0RKMA

Please like and share, as this encourages more community filming. Donations
to FeCRA toward the cost of filming are appreciated.

The Greater Cambridge Partnership have also posted details about the
seminar on their website. https://www.greatercambridge.
org.uk/news/making-the-greenways-green/

Francis Burkitt, Chair of the GCP Board commented his inbox was normally
full of hate mail but the Greenways were different, people wanted them and
they could be a good way of bringing aspects of the countryside into the
city.

*Histon Road update*

Officer recommendations at November’s GCP Executive Board: no bus lane in
residential area. They are now advocating bus priority via traffic signals
with focus on improved cycling and pedestrian infrastructure for modal
change.  Plans to be presented to Board in March 2018. Histon Road (and
other projects) have benefitted from observing procedures at Milton Road
and from a major rethink by the interim Transport Director, Chris Tunstall,
who unfortunately leaves in February

*Milton Road update*

‘Final Concept’ plans were approved by GCP Board, July 2017.  Residents are
disappointed that the bus lane remains which they will continue to campaign
to shorten.  There is no hope of total removal and the plans now await a MR
LLF update in January 2018 prior to GCP decision 21st March 2018. Final
design approval by the Exec Board will be 11th October 2018. Following a
final consultation. Forecast completion date of MR remodelling is 2021.
See:

https://www.greatercambridge.org.uk/transport/transport-
projects/milton-road/

*Cambourne to Cambridge A428 Consultation update*

Concerns have been raised about bias in this consultation. At a packed LLF
in Coton attended by Director of Transport Chris Tunstall and GCP Chief
Exec Rachel Stoppard they agreed mistakes had been made and that in order
to fulfil statutory legal criteria the options out to consultation would
need to include a credible on-road option in addition to the off-road route
option through the Coton Corridor and West Fields. An LLF technical group
will work together with the GCP on their ‘option B’ to achieve this.

*New CB1 buildings proposed for Cambridge*

Two new buildings proposed for CB1. A hostel with 400 beds and a
multi-story car park with 210 car park spaces and aprt-hotel which will
stand behind the Ibis Hotel in Station Square. Brookgate is submitting a
new planning application early next year .Have your say and give feedback
to Bidwells who are submitting the application on behalf of Brookgate early
next year laura.fisher at bidwells.co.uk

http://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/cambridge/concerns-over-
new-cb1-buildings-1-5311104

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/what-
angers-people-cb1-station-13999444

*Consultation on proposed lighting on the Driftway, Newnham* *ends Dec 19*

There is funding for this access to Lammas Land, and it would link with the
Coe Fen footpath/cycle way where there are already solar studs. There are,
however, sensitive environmental issues to consider, especially the impact
on wildlife as it is adjacent to a nature reserve.

At the Greenways seminar Landscape Architect Tom Turner argued Cambridge’s
medieval landscapes - Coe Fen, Sheeps Green where people still graze their
cattle are unique urban history, like the best art of the Fitzwilliam.
Should these medieval open spaces be listed?

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LightingimprovementsDriftway

*Hobson's Brook corridor 10-year vision consultation **ends Jan 9, 2018,*

https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/sites/default/files/draft-
hobsons-brook-corridor-10-year-vision.pdf

The ‘Vision’ will also be used as an evidence base to inform future local
plan creation and inform decisions regarding planning applications
affecting the brook..

*Ditton Meadows Fence Enclosure-** consultation ends Dec 21; **Wed Jan 10,
6.00 - 7.30pm Chisholm Trail and Abbey Chesterton bridge LLF Barnwell
Baptist Church *The Local Liaison Forum is an open meeting.

Gonville and Caius College, the owners of Ditton Meadows are insisting on a
fence as a planning condition for the Chisholm Trail. The meadows are
currently open to the public, and this seems to contradict a key argument
for the Trail that it would give people more access to open space amenity

Residents are concerned that enclosing the Meadows and fencing off cattle
like this as a “landowner deal” sets a precedent for other Greenways and
open spaces. Water vole habitats on Coldhams Commons have already been
destroyed - a criminal offence which is now under investigation.

FeCRA raised the need for sensitive landscaping on the Chisholm Trail with
the Planning Inspector

http://www.fecra.org.uk/docs/Dear%20Planning%20Inspector.pdf

Local Blogger Richard Taylor has also drawn attention to the extent and
ugliness of the fencing,

https://twitter.com/RTaylorUK/status/939562464664047618

https://twitter.com/rtayloruk/status/939561174554894342?
refsrc=email&s=11http://planning.

*Would this be acceptable for Grantchester Meadows, Sheeps Green and
Midsummer Common*?

Once the Meadows are enclosed the public loses access to large areas of the
meadows.* The path is the only right of way.* It is shocking that all these
details are only emerging via the planning process; this is a civic
project, we should all have been able to see and contribute to these plans
during development.

You can submit representations on the planning application at
http://planning.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/swift/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.
DisplayUrl?theApnID=C/5005/16/CC/C4&theTabNo=3 … <https://t.co/tCFhYjpIdr>

*See also: *

http://idox.cambridge.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?
activeTab=summary&keyVal=P0MXYWDX0A700

http://idox.cambridge.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?
activeTab=summary&keyVal=P0MYFQDX0A700

*Key contacts:*

*Emma.Fitch at cambridgeshire.gov.uk <Emma.Fitch at cambridgeshire.gov.uk>
Business Manager, County Planning*

Tel 01223 715531

*Gonville & Caius* Dr Pippa Rogerson Master pjr1000 at cam.ac.uk/

*Gonville & Caius Senior Bursar*: Dr David Secher
senior.bursar at cai.cam.ac.uk/

Chris Tunstall chris.tunstall at cambridgeshire.gov.uk Director of Transport,
GCP

Lewis Herbert  lewis.herbert at cambridge.gov.uk  Leader of Cambridge City
Council, GCP Board

Emma Fitch the planning officer at the County Council says

‘*any comments that are sent in will be placed on the planning file and
will be considered with all the statutory consultees.*

*Cambridge’s spaces and streets: Keeping Cambridge special workshop *

*Sat, Jan 13 **9.00am to 1.00pm, Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
Wilberforce Road,*

Cambridge, Past, Present and Future* say ‘*Come and chat to us about how
Cambridge can address the challenge of having more people moving around the
city in ways that enhance the quality of life and preserve its heritage’.

The workshop
<https://cambridgeppf.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e537165317aa3c7dd85ef2b8b&id=b8d00ca9cc&e=1d0ada8b51>
will include short presentations covering issues such as Cambridge’s green
spaces, sharing spaces, improving interchanges and street design. The
workshop is free to attend but booking in advance is required. Donations on
the day will be appreciated. Book here.
<https://cambridgeppf.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e537165317aa3c7dd85ef2b8b&id=26a54a18d2&e=1d0ada8b51>

*Wishing you a very Happy Christmas, on behalf of all of us on the FeCRA
Committee*

*Best wishes,*

*Wendy*

Wendy Blythe

Chair, FeCRA
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