Closing dates (2007) are 3rd May for any evidence of protected species on Vicar's Brook and Hobson's Brook or environmental evidence; ... and don't forget to show up at the Guildhall Cambridge from 10am on 13th June 2007 for when the Public Inquiry resumes.

Monday, 2 April 2007

New Petition to Number 10 Downing Street

Today we submitted a petition to the Prime Minister Tony Blair via Number 10 Downing Street Petitions

Our petition reads:

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to support us in
our campaign to save the mature trees from being uprooted and
historic cottages from demolition on Fitzwilliam Road in
Cambridge"

More details:

"We can show how the developer of the land on Fitzwilliam Road
can build an equal number of homes without uprooting our mature
trees or destroying our historic cottages that contribute to
residential amenity in the historic and outstandingly beautiful
City of Cambridge. We call on the Prime Minister to prevent the
trees and cottages being destroyed on Fitzwilliam Road in
Cambridge and more widely to support our campaign of insisting
no citizen of this country should be forced to choose between
(1) our natural and heritage environment and (2) new housing
where we can and should have both."

We have been told that there is a queue for the petitions to be considered and accepted or rejected and that they are not currently meeting their targets of reviewing petitions within five days. If you would like to support this petition please email us your contact details and I will email you as soon as the petition goes live. Feel free in the meantime to sign the earlier petition, it will do no harm. But I'd urge everyone to sign the 10 Downing Street Petition when it goes up and forward it to all their friends so the Prime Minister gets the message loud and clear, enough is enough, we're determined to have some say in planning decisions around us.
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Anonymous said...

We've heard nothing back from the PM's office about our petition. We understand due to the number of petitions being submitted they are falling way behind. I'm sure they hope to catch up before the elections! So the petition is not yet up. I don't think there is any point of a service like this unless petitions are dealt with within 24 hours.

6 April 2007 at 09:28

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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Building well designed and sustainable developments requires public participation to get right, and this includes the right to have our views taken into consideration properly and not just dealt with as a formality in planning decisions. We abhor the fact many large developments and commercial concerns override wider public interest including protection of our environment and historic buildings. We uphold the right of public participation in planning and call on our elected representatives to do the same.