I certainly appauld Wisbech Councillors, who work very hard for their community.
I don’t normally get involved or comment about our neighbouring towns as ‘we’ have more than enough of our own issues and problems.
However to ‘spend’ again, somewhere in the region of £250,000 on yet more consultants, for the never ending ‘dream’ of Wisbech to March Railway link…..£250K of our money.
MP Barclay has been on the case for at least 12 years or more.
Then below the 2016 (correct 10 years ago) the Wisbech 2020 Vision…..
No one ‘appears’ to be taking any notice of the BCR (Benifit to Cost Ratio) which is poor at best.
Now not everything ‘needs’ to be based on a BCR, but it certainly goes a long way to obtaining funding……
Need I upset a few and say similar BCR for the Whittlesey Reief Road – These are the facts…I am sorry if you don’t like the argument…..
The difference from Wyndham Thomas and his team to todays argument is that they
had Loads of Money.
Mr. Wyndham Thomas Wyndham Thomas, who , oversaw the oversaw The Vision of Peterborough from a small Fenland city to a regional hub with a population of more than 120,000.
As director of the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) in the late 1950s, Wyndham had been a strong advocate for the “garden city” model of town planning and a supporter of the creation of more new towns to ease inner-city overcrowding. The Labour government of the mid-60s took this idea up as official policy, and in 1968 Wyndham was named general manager of the Peterborough Development Corporation.
In that position he helped to attract big companies to the city, including John Lewis, which took the largest unit in the new Queensgate shopping centre. He also presided over the planting of thousands of trees and the creation of a network of roads that connected the city to its satellite townships.
(Note – Local scribbler – Peter Baxter was a good acquaintance of Wyndham)
Wisbech 2020 Vision Wisbech Rail Update-02-2026
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