Date published: 2006/06/20
The Cambridge Evening News says:
Residents are demanding that plans to relocate sewage works to greenbelt land are thrown out.
The group of residents from Horningsea and Fen Ditton are campaigning against Cambridgeshire County Council plans to relocate Milton sewage works to Honey Hill - a picturesque "green lung" tucked behind Horningsea.
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The sewage works in Milton are within an area known as the northern fringe - an area earmarked for regeneration to meet Government-imposed housing quotas.The Local Plan has made provision for the construction of 2,300 homes in the area - 600 of which would be built on the current sewage works in Milton.
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Anglian Water said it would cost £130-£160 million to relocate the sewage works.
What a surprise. The NIMBYs of Cambridge want the sewage works moved from their backyard and the NIMBYs of Horningsea and Fen Ditton do not want it moved to their backyard. And you have to have entire sympathy with the latter. Why should they have their lives blighted (with no recompense) so that the rich residents of Cambridge can dump their sewage on someone else. And the estimated cost equates to around a thousand pounds for every resident of Cambridge. Obviously they expect someone else to pick up the bill (most likely the new residents of that area of Cambridge), but how many people in Cambridge would be willing to pay a thousand pounds in order for this move to happen? Hardly any, perhaps the few who would directly benefit through increased house prices.
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