Northstowe - the building site just down the road
The story so far: a new town with 10,000 homes for 25,000 people is to be built on our doorstep, mainly on the former Oakington airfield, effectively linking Oakington and Longstanton. Infrastructure building starts in early 2008 with the first houses later this year. The new town sits on the route of the newly agreed Mis-guided Busway, intended to relieve pressure on the A14 road by connecting Huntingdon and Cambridge
- www.northstowe.net and www.northstowe.co.uk; really interesting web sites for the new settlement
- Cambridgeshire Horizons is the body set up by the local authorities to manage the planning controls for this and other local delights. Here's a form to contact them (South Cambs District Councillor Dr David Bard (Sawston) has his finger on the pulse representing South Cambs on their Board). Three local councils convince the government that they can manage the planning of the site
- 2007 - Northstowe is to be even bigger than was originally proposed
- Gallagher Estates positive spin on building a "sustainable and innovative market town" on our doorstep. Here's a form to contact them with your views
- South Cambs District Council - safeguarding all our interests with the Northstowe Area Action Plan. Planning applications being considered by South Cambs District Council.
- Cambridgeshire County Council have a right of way project for Northstowe
- The mis-guided busway gets planning consent despite the proposals for a railway on the route by Cast Iron. Watch their propaganda movie on YouTube
- English Partnerships doing the financial deal on the site
- Google Satellite picture of the area before development