TREATMENT PLANT RELOCATION DECISION WELCOMED BY LIB DEMS

Further to the announcement today that the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Works will be allowed to move from its current site in the North East of the city, Cllr Katie Porrer, Planning, Transport and Infrastructure spokesperson for Cambridge Liberal Democrats commented:

“We welcome this decision. It offers some of the clarity we need for preparing the area’s wider plans for the future. It brings closer some of the additional homes our area badly needs if our valuable life-improving local economy is to prosper and people are to find decent places to live here. We have argued for this to happen for many years.

"Though we understand that campaigners against the new waste water plant will be disappointed, it is clearly preferable for homes and jobs to be provided in a sustainable way on the edge of the existing the urban area, close to workplaces, where there is good public transport and where new amenities can be shared with existing communities. Environmentally this must be in the overall interests of our area. 

"We now need the government to take bolder and faster action to remove other obstacles to this growth, such as through investment in the necessary water supplies of the future, ensuring necessary community infrastructure is built first and that biodiversity is not only restored but expanded. So while this is good news, we still need more positive supportive action from the government before we can see the full way forward.”