Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

The proposals include:

• All vehicles moving in and out of a proposed Sustainable Travel Zone (STZ) would pay a flat daily charge between 7am and 7pm on weekdays. Proposed charge for private cars is £5 a day. The zone would not be fully introduced until 2027/28.
• The zone charge will cover the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, home to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Royal Papworth Hospital and the Rosie Maternity Hospital.
• The zone charge aims to improve public spaces in Cambridge, making them more ‘people-centric’.
• Discounts, exemptions and reimbursements for some, including those on low incomes and blue badge holders.
• Money generated by the zone would be used to provide better buses and other improvement to the transport network.
• New bus routes, additional orbital and express services to key sites across the city, and a huge increase in services for villages and towns across the travel to work area.
• Buses supported by flexible services known as Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) – which you can book and picks you up from near your home.
• Flat fares to make public transport cheap and accessible for all; with passengers paying £1 to travel in the city and £2 in the travel to work area. Changes proposed for early 2023.

I understand the vehicle was moved a short while later….

Anglian Water and Cambridge Water announced in October 2022 that
they are proposing to build a large new reservoir (a little smaller than
Grafham Water) in an area north of Chatteris and east of the A141.
• The reservoir is needed to enable sufficient water supplies for future
growth in the region in the face of a changing climate and to avoid
damage to the natural environment.
• A non-statutory public consultation is currently underway to seek views on
the proposed reservoir which closes on 21st December 2022. A link to the
consultation can be found here: https://www.fensreservoir.co.uk/