17:22 Tuesday 21st October 2014
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
CHRIS MANN: Almost 1,400 people have signed a petition saying they don’t want a road to be built through a nature reserve in Godmanchester. There’s no plan on the table to do this yet, but with over 10,000 homes planned for the area in the next twenty years or so, a new link road and bridge is needed somewhere in the area of Godmanchester. The Wildlife Trust which runs Ouse Valley Living Landscape, wants to make sure it doesn’t go through the reserve. Martin Baker is the Wildlife Trust Conservation Manager for Cambridgeshire. He presented that petition to Cambridgeshire County Council’s Environment and Economic Committee today. I’ll be talking to the chairman of that in just a moment or two, but Martin earlier on gave me his view of how it had gone.
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MARTIN BAKER: … proposal is road east of Huntingdon, between Huntingdon and Hemingford Abbotts, to link Hertford and Godmanchester, but mainly to serve a proposed massive new development at RAF Wyton. And the route shown by the County Council on their plan going between Huntingon and Hemingford Abbotts will have to pass through historic river valley landscape, which has the Wildlife Trust’s nearest nature reserve at Godmanchester, but also the ancient flower-rich meadows and a Site of Special Scientific Interest at (UNCLEAR) Common. And overall a very peaceful tranquil and one of the best bits and highest environment quality areas of the Ouse Valley.
CHRIS MANN: So tell us how the meeting went.
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