South Cambs leader avoids commitment to East West Rail route preference
The council is working on a response to East West Rail s consultation on the proposed new railway line
Leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council, Lib Dem Cllr Bridget Smith (Image: Cambridge News)
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The leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council would not commit to backing a specific route for East West Rail when questioned at a cabinet meeting on Monday (May 24).
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Wednesday, 28th April 2021, 9:36 am
Bedford Council’s planning committee on Monday heard how Fujifilm, which employs half of its 300-strong UK workforce in town, had been looking at other areas, including neighbouring Milton Keynes, for its new ‘landmark’ building.
Council officers see Fujifilm, which describes itself as the world’s largest photographic and imaging company, as vital to the town’s future as a magnet to attract other big name companies to the borough.
Planning officer Alastair Wren’s report to the committee said: “The company have been based in Bedford since 1983 and have been located in their current UK headquarters building on St Martins Way to the rear of this site since 2007.”
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Having spent 10 years following a course of austerity there is a now genuine attempt by the government to ‘level up’. Over the past four months it has announced a regional investment bank, a range of targeted capital initiatives to support deprived areas, and the freeport initiative. It is has also shown an understanding of the needs of towns and the importance of skill training, insufficiently defined in previous programmes. It has reviewed the Treasury Green Book assumptions in order to adapt them to the levelling up policy.