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Commenting on Government Plans to Regulate Banks and Reign in Personal Debt
In white paper to be published next week the UK Government is reportedly going to announce new plans to regulate the banking sector. A key feature will be increasing the amount of capital banks are required to hold, in particular the minimum amount of liquid capital banks are required to hold will be increased. From […]
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Cash Injection for More Affordable Housing Prompts Restart of Arbury Park Building Work
Some homes at Arbury Park are very close to the busy A14 dual carriageway. There are proposals both to widen the road and to build homes even closer to it. Building work has restarted at Arbury Park in North Cambridge; this has been prompted by a relaxation of the rules intended to ensure that the […]
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Strategy for Locating New Homes in Cambridgeshire
On the 7th of April 2009 I observed a meeting of the “Joint Cambridgeshire Regional Spatial Strategy Review Panel”. County Councillors, Cambridge City Councillors along with District Councillors from Huntingdonshire, East Cambridgeshire, and South Cambridgeshire discussed the high-level strategy for locating new homes in the region. Councillors received a presentation from consultants and discussed what […]
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North West Cambridge Development
Plans for a proposed development which will comprise 2500 homes, a similar number of student residences as well as University buildings between Huntington Road, opposite Girton College though to Madingley Road, joining up with the observatory site on Madingley rise took a step forward today. A draft Northwest Cambridge Area Action Plan (AAP) draft, and […]
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NIAB Site – Between Histon Road and Huntington Road
The NIAB site has outline planning permission for development and will be built on. I believe there is still an opportunity as detailed plans are developed in advance of a full planning application to make sure that what is built is what is needed and that development does not adversely affect existing residents particularly in […]
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Cambridge City Development Map
I have created a Google map showing areas of proposed significant development around the city of Cambridge. 47,500 new homes are planned to be built in and around Cambridge by 2016. What the below maps don’t show is the very high density of the proposed new developments, a very large number of people will be […]