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PROTESTS are flooding in about controversial plans to rekindle Cambridgeshire's Hanley Grange eco-town scheme........As the News has reported, the regional assembly's public consultation on housing in the county as a whole has drawn fierce criticism from residents and councillors alike.

Backlash over Hanley Grange plan resurfaces

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Home - Hanley Grange PROTESTS are flooding in about controversial plans to rekindle Cambridgeshire's Hanley Grange eco-town scheme.

Proposals to build the 14,500-home development near Hinxton were scrapped after a tidal wave of opposition from residents nearby.

But the township is back on the agenda as the East of England Regional Assembly carries out public consultation on the East of England Plan, a blueprint for development over the next two decades.

A website has been created by the planners for people to have their say on Hanley Grange - with a deadline of 5pm today (Tuesday, 24 November).

As the cut-off point loomed, comments were pouring in, virtually all of them expressing opposition to the idea.

Many highlighted the impact of the extra traffic that the township would produce on existing small communities.

Others raised fears about problems such as flooding, which would be caused by agricultural land being covered with houses and tarmac.

County councillor Tim Stone, who represents Duxford, has been helping to co-ordinate opposition to Hanley Grange, and he said he was pleased at the last-minute rush of protest.

By last night, nearly 200 comments had been sent in.

Mr Stone said: "Initially, people did not respond in large numbers, but that seems to be happening now.

"When Hanley Grange was scrapped, most people thought that was it, but it is clearly still on the horizon, and with further public consultation still to come next year, I fear it will come back again.

"My message to people is that we must keep on fighting it."

As the News has reported, the regional assembly's public consultation on housing in the county as a whole has drawn fierce criticism from residents and councillors alike.

Many have attacked the proposal for more than 90,000 homes to be built by 2031 as unsustainable, and Cambridgeshire County Council's cabinet was meeting today (Tuesday, 24 November) to discuss a report demanding that a lower limit of 67,000 is set.

People keen to register their comments as part of the current consultation can do so via eera-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/planning/rss to2031scenarios.

 

Read the article in the Cambridge Evening News here .

 
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