Recent Updates

EWR consultation deadline was Saturday 25th !

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East West Rail 2024 consultation ends !

Their route is via a Cambourne North station,,,, going parallel to the A428 and crossing over near Highfields Caldecote and then as an embanked line down between Toft and Comberton (near the layby) past Little Eversden, to the south west of the Royston Lane A603 It goes over A603 with a viaduct before heading to the south of Haslingfield, tunnelled through Chapel Hill to join the Kings Cross line near Harston.

There was an information point at Comberton Library and an in-person consultation event in  Comberton, Comberton Village Hall, 10 January 2025, 2pm – 7pm

Responses needed to be in by 25th January 2025

Go to their website for much more information and an on-line virtual consultation website (which has little to nothing on Comberton!

More bits relevant to Comberton are here

SCDC Planning Meeting rejects the Retirement ‘village’ planning application! !

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A unanimous rejection from SCDC Shared Planning committee on 15th January !

Well done to Cllr Jessica Marshall  who spoke on behalf of Comberton Parish Council and to Cllr Claire Michel who spoke as a Comberton Resident on behalf of Comberton.

The link to the SCDC YouTube recording of the Planning Meeting should be here.

Local Cambridge News had a stark headline …

Retirement development branded ‘senior ghetto’ blocked from being built

Read their article here.

The SCDC Planning Chair praised  the level of support rejecting the application from both residents and responsible bodies and of  the depth of the response from CPC.

So many thanks to those who responded to the application with considered objections and to those who contributed to the CPC official response.

Hopefully any appeal  – if any is made – will be also be rejected and we won’t be faced with this vista in future years…

The current Parish Council topic is here …..