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Grim vision (letter)

Hanley Grange, coupled with the planned second runway at Stansted and another planned new town at Elsenham in Uttlesford, would render the whole area between Bishop's Stortford and Cambridge unrecognisable. It would create a nightmarish vision of our familiar towns and villages along the M11 north of Bishop's Stortford, such as Newport, Saffron Walden, Great Chesterford, Whittlesford, and Shelford being transformed into urban conurbations having more in common with Hounslow, Slough and Reading, with their endless business parks, warehouses and concrete sprawl straddled along the M4 corridor west of Heathrow Airport.

Vote slams eco-town

HUNDREDS of people turned out at a public meeting held to discuss proposals for a controversial eco-town.
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Eco town would damage bio tech industry

Biotech companies are threatening to quit Cambridge and move overseas if a proposed 927 acre eco-town goes ahead. The findings of a new survey - published by Life Sciences consultancy, Cambridge Healthcare & Biotech - are starkly at odds with claims from the promoters of the proposed development. The perceived needs of the Cambridge technology and biotech clusters have featured prominently in the promotional material for the Hanley Grange development.

East Cambs offers its help

Despite its poor public transport links, flooding concerns and potential to add to existing traffic congestion in the county, Hanley Grange was shortlisted by Government as one of 15 potential eco-towns earlier this year.
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Why eco-towns will destroy the environment

One of the things Britain needs like a hole in the head is more traffic, and yet this is exactly what these new towns will generate.A dozen new scattered communities means several dozen new A-roads and motorway spurs to service them. More people on the trains, more of everything, in fact.

If you spread people more thinly, logic dictates that they will need to travel more.