The changing West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its implications for East Anglia
Join Rob Larter's talk on May 21st 6.30-8.30, German Lutheran Church, Shaftsbury Road, CB2: Booking on Eventbrite here.
News and Events
Cam River Rights Festival
Save the date: Saturday 21st June. Friends of the Cam will be holding its 5th River Rights Festival at which we will be rededicating the rights of the river. We will have live songs, music, poetry and short talks, and as the Cambridge Folk Festival and Strawberry Fair have both been cancelled this year, this is the summer festival fixture in the city!
Challenging the Cambridge Growth Company
The Federation of Cambridge Residents' Associations (FeCRA) has invited Peter Freeman, Chair of the Government’s new ‘Cambridge Growth Company’, to explain what his vision for the growth of Cambridge means for its infrastructure, water and housing, and this is an opportunity for us to question him directly. Places are free, and booking is on Eventbrite here.
Challenging the Growth Machine in Cambridge
The Financial Times' 'long read' ‘Can Cambridge be a model for kick-starting the British economy?' featured Friends of the Cam steering group member Wendy Blythe stressing the problems that the growth proposals will cause for the river and local communties.
Challenging the Fixed Bus Way through Coton Orchard
Friends of the Cam submitted an objection to the plan to build a fixed dedicated bus route from Cambridge (Grange Road) to Cambourne, via Coton, destroying a traditional orchard of national importance in the process. The Department of Transport have now announced a Public Inquiry, and Friends of the Cam have registered as an interested party and will be making our objection. The reasons for this objection are set out below.
March for Clean Water, Sunday 3rd November
Friends of the Cam is a member of the coalition organising The March for Clean Water. We joined other groups from Cambridge and across the country on Sunday November 3rd to demand clean, plentiful and healthy water in our rivers and seas for all species, including humans, and to end the profit driven pollution which drives water companies.
Latest action demanding that Anglian Water stops polluting our rivers
On Friday 13 September, Friends of the Cam and XR staged an action against Anglian Water dumping sewage in local rivers, prompting the water company to state they had heard the message “loud and clear”. This was followed on the 14th by an afternoon of outreach and family fun on Jesus Green, demanding that Anglian Water #ActNow to stop polluting our rivers.
A Meeting of Rivers
Friends of the Cam is one of four groups working on the “Meeting of Rivers” programme. Its inaugural workshop was co-hosted by the Friends of the Cam on the 19th and 20th of September at St Lukes Church, Cambridge. A report was published in the Cambridge Independent here.
Friends of the Cam stand in solidarity with Friends of Paradise
A planning Inquiry Inspector overrode the unanimous decision of Cambridge City Council and the objections of thousands of residents to allow Queens’ College to develop in the garden of Owlstone Croft, up to the boundary of Paradise Nature Reserve. Friends of Paradise has applied to challenge this decision through a judicial review. Unfortunately, the Judge has refused Friends of Paradise a hearing for a Judicial Review.
Friends of the Cam stands in solidarity with Save Honey Hill
The Public Inquiry on the relocation of Milton waste water treatment plant has concluded. In the Inquiry, Save Honey Hill exposed the weakness of Anglian Water's case, and Friends of the Cam submitted objections to the unnecessary and damaging development. The Planning Inspector was due to report to the Secretary of State by July 2024, but the Government has yet to announce its decision. The latest deadline of 12 January 2025 has now been abandoned, and an anouncement is said to be made in April, 2025, to take account of new planning legislation.