I’ve stuck my neck out several years ago in supporting Nick Clark the then leader of Cambs CC in his promoting of a ‘New’ crossing at Kings Dyke, alas I like Nick C, got the chop by the electorate, he tried UKIP and is now hoping to return to the Conservatives.
Many/Most think a magic wand can be waved – and behold a Bridge appears….now realise that this is a long drawn out, complex and financially demanding project.
I’ve tried contacting our would be ‘Councillors’ standing for election and still can not make any contact with them!
Dave Connor (Con) being the present County Councillor to update WTC at times on where the progress is going.
To see the ‘BIG PICTURE’ there is a vast amount of information and material on the Cambs CC website View It Here It contains many other reports.
It is my understanding that there are still on-going ‘issues’ of ‘Land Ownership’ – it is all very well some Council official stating this ‘is not a problem’ and that they have the option of a compulsory purchase order – why are they ‘CCC’ dragging their heals over this issue.
Surely they have given the obstinate landowner more than enough time for negotiating a mutual agreement or will we end up again with more delays.
The tendering process is out and I wrote some weeks ago that there were 6 interested companies.
I quote from the CCC Website:
A tender inviting companies to bid for this multi-million pound project will go out in March 2017. After a 10 week period, officers will evaluate the bids and then make an announcement when a contractor is chosen. The successful bidder will work with County Council officers to draw up detailed designs for the bridge and bypass prior to the start of works.
The Compulsory Purchase Orders necessary to buy the land needed for the scheme are also being prepared and these orders will go out soon. The Orders will advertise the County Council’s intentions to buy the land for the statutory notification period.
The debate last week on TV for the would be ‘Mayor’ of the combined authority touched on many subjects but the word ‘infrastructure’ was touched on several times.
It is not so long ago a local Whittlesey Town Councillor started using the word quite a lot, when I asked him what the definition of ‘infrastructure’ was – he couldn’t tell me – I then asked him whether he could spell the word infrastructure – and was met with silence.
