Submit your objection to government 7th March
You can support the cause by putting your objections in writing to the Secretary of State for Transport via transportinfrastructure@dft.gov.uk or c/o Transport Infrastructure Planning Unit, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR.
Doing this will help to show the government the strength of support for our alternative and against the plans put forward by the council.
To do this you should:
Send your response before 7 March.
State who is making the objection.
Include your postal address (even if responding by email).
State the grounds of your objection. We would recommend that you include any of the following but written in your own words:
Title of letter/email = Objection to Transport and Work Act Order to the Department for Transport (DfT) for a new busway to the southeast of Cambridge Cambridge
I… (Name) of …. Postal Address …. am writing to make a formal objection to the “Application for a Transport and Work Act Order to the Department for Transport (DfT) for a new busway to the southeast of Cambridge”, as submitted by the Cambridge Greater Partnership on 9 January 2025. The grounds for this objection are the following:
The construction of 5 miles of new road through open countryside is unecessary to deliver improvements in transport. Similar transport and economic benefits can be achieved by building a version of the scheme first proposed by the applicant in 2018. This would involve building sections of bus lane adjacent to the A1307 and 1 mile of new road (busway).
This alternative would avoid building two bridges over the River Granta chalk stream and putting Hobson's Conduit chalk stream into a culvert.
This alternative would avoid creating a scar in the Gog Magog Hills landscape, one of the most important landscapes in the Cambridge area.
This alternative would avoid building a new road through a countryside park, to the detriment of its future users and nature.
This alternative would avoid severing fields close to villages making them vulnerable to future development and further harm to the countryside.
This alternative would better serve the planned expansion of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and serve more of the Campus.
Cycle routes in this area are already under construction and include the Linton Greenway which will connect Cambridge to Babraham, Granta Park and Linton; and the Sawston Greenway that will connect Cambridge to Sawston. Stapleford and Shelford are already served by the DNA cycle path.
[If you live in Stapleford, Great Shelford or Sawston you might also give your view on how likely you (or your fellow villagers) might be to use the proposed 5 mile busway. Our councils say the main reason they have chosen that route is to serve the villages but the bus stops are on the edge of the villages uphill.]
To read the documents submitted with the application, click here.
Together, we can get a better solution that improves transport and the economy without destroying the countryside. Thank you for standing with us at this critical moment.
Better Ways for Busways