Pages 12-13 of the Little Book:
The Cambridge-Oxford-London Golden Triangle is a global powerhouse in life sciences. Cambridge alone leads the world in research intensity.
The OxCam Arc is back on the agenda, focussed on a new east-west railway with as many as 18 new towns along its route. However, that’s a long way off. Right now Cambridge is under intense pressure to expand its research infrastructure and housing. That pressure is heading our way. Witness what is already happening immediately across the county boundary at the Wellcome Genome Campus.
Our close proximity to Cambridge has advantages: a vibrant city, healthy jobs market, excellent sixth form schools, and easy access to Addenbrookes Hospital and biomedical campus (soon to have its own railway station).
The challenge for the north of Uttlesford will be retaining access to Addenbrookes, always remembering that we are in Essex and thus a different health authority area that happens to be focussing its attention on a new hospital in Harlow.
Perhaps we should be campaigning to move this most north westerly part of Essex back into Cambridgeshire, as it was until 1894.
WHAT WE HAVE WRITTEN PREVIOUSLY –
Cambridge dragon