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Re: It's jolly quiet around here

From Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk>
Newsgroups cam.misc
Subject Re: It's jolly quiet around here
Date 2024-07-30 15:54 +0100
Organization Roland Perry
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In message <3al*r8DQz@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, at 12:25:59 on Mon, 
29 Jul 2024, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> remarked:
>Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>> They keep fiddling with the route, which appears to be to make it pass
>> the most new housing developments, thus surely (don't call me...) ought
>> to warrant a contribution from the housing developers?
>
>Yebbut until they settle on the route they don't know which housing
>developers.

Diverting it via Cambourne, which has the knock-on effect of most of the 
NIMBY revolt from there to Foxton, is all about new housing on existing 
sites. Yes, they hope other station stops will eventually become 
Cambourne-clones.

>I think the new station at Winslow has some kind of tie-in with new housing.
>There are also noises about Calvert:
>https://www.urbanandcivic.com/portfolio/strategic-sites/calvert/
>although there's no stations on HS2 or EWR or even good road connections so
>at present it's just an isolated field.
>
>For the route from Bedford to Cambridge, there's developers poised
>for Tempsford:
>https://www.urbanandcivic.com/portfolio/strategic-sites/tempsford/
>(which is already on the ECML and A1 so doesn't depend on EWR as such)
>
>and Cambourne North:
>https://www.savills.co.uk/landing-pages/promotion/cambourne-north.aspx
>
>but all these are mostly developer crayonista-ing at this point.
>None of them have got very far yet AFAIK.
>
>Theo

-- 
Roland Perry

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It's jolly quiet around here Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> - 2024-07-24 11:00 +0100
  Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-07-24 12:38 +0100
    Re: It's jolly quiet around here Keith Willshaw <keithwillshaw@gmail.com> - 2024-07-27 17:05 +0100
  Re: It's jolly quiet around here Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-07-24 12:52 +0100
  Re: It's jolly quiet around here Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-07-25 17:38 +0100
    Re: It's jolly quiet around here Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-07-25 17:57 +0100
      Re: It's jolly quiet around here Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-07-25 21:23 +0100
        Re: It's jolly quiet around here Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-07-25 21:55 +0100
          Re: It's jolly quiet around here Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-07-28 13:06 +0100
            Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-07-28 14:44 +0100
              Re: It's jolly quiet around here Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-07-28 16:30 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-07-28 16:47 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-07-29 12:25 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-29 18:22 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-07-30 15:54 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-08-02 11:58 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-08-02 13:53 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-08-02 14:47 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-08-03 09:44 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-08-03 10:27 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-03 12:26 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-08-03 12:59 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-03 13:24 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-08-03 18:38 +0100
                Re: It's jolly quiet around here Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-08-03 18:35 +0100
  Re: It's jolly quiet around here Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-07-29 19:09 +0100

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