Tag: Great Haddon

Stop Great Haddon Battle Joined as Stobart Pullout Rumours Spread

07:07 Tuesday 4th October 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: Banners opposing a development which would provide up to 5,000 new homes and around 9,000 jobs have been put up ahead of an important meeting. The Government’s inspector is coming to Peterborough to discuss the Great Haddon development. Olive Main is from the Norman Cross Action Group. Good morning Olive.
OLIVE MAIN: Good morning.
PAUL STAINTON: Now .. tsk .. you put banners up. You’re angry. There are 9,000 jobs at stake here Olive. What’s the problem? Continue reading “Stop Great Haddon Battle Joined as Stobart Pullout Rumours Spread”

Richard Jones from Barker Storey Matthews on Development in Peterborough

07:08 Friday 24th June 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: Peterborough apparently needs more warehouses. It’s the view of a leading city businessman, who says he’s having enquiries from as far away as Felixstowe for warehouse space right here in Peterborough. Last month we revealed that Eddie Stobart, of coursem will be the first business to open a distribution centre in Great Haddon, this big development just to the South of Hampton. But the city’s MP Stewart Jackson said he wanted more  high-skilled jobs coming to Peterborough, and fewer warehouses. Richard Jones is the man who wants more warehouses, says we could do with a lot more warehouses, from Barker Storey Matthews. Morning Richard.
RICHARD JONES: Morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: So Stewart Jackson doesn’t know what he’s talking about, does he? Continue reading “Richard Jones from Barker Storey Matthews on Development in Peterborough”

Cereste Celebrates Licence to Build

08:24 Wednesday 12th January 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

PAUL STAINTON: The blueprint for Peterborough’s future development has moved a step closer to being finalised. The Government has approved the Council’s vision of 25,500 homes, and 24,600 new jobs in the city by 2026. It includes the proposed 5,000 home development at Great Haddon, and makes provision for the Magna Park rail freight exchange plan for Stanground. Marco Cereste, Leader of Peterborough City Council with us this morning. Morning Marco. Continue reading “Cereste Celebrates Licence to Build”

Shailesh Vara on Great Haddon

Peterborough City Council has submitted planning applications for Great Haddon, in essence a new town of over five thousand homes to the south of Peterborough. A number of significant concerns have been raised about what will become one of the county’s largest new developments.
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Yaxley Up in Arms About Great Haddon

Peterborough City Council plans another large housing development at Great Haddon. The village of Yaxley, just across the border in Cambridgeshire, believes that this will considerable worsen the quality of life for existing residents, and they see nothing coming forward to contradict the belief that Peterborough, with its apparent obsession with expansion, is a bad neighbour to have.
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