Businesses have been identified as eligible by East Cambridgeshire District Council’s ratings list and will now be contacted via email and post.
To be eligible for this funding, a business must be in East Cambridgeshire and have been open as usual in the week before Government restrictions required them to close, either through tier-based restrictions or national restrictions.
For wet-led pubs, this is from November 2 and for all other businesses this is from December 21.
Businesses must have also been providing in-person services to customers from the premises and must have been registered as the occupier for business rates on December 26.
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4:23 PM January 21, 2021
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2:33 PM January 22, 2021
Impressions of some of the new homes to be built in Littleport as part of a 680 home development
- Credit: Carter Jonas
It is already Cambridgeshire’s biggest village and is set to grow even bigger after the announcement that a consortium of builders is about to begin work on 680 new homes.
A 70-acre field at Littleport that has planning permission for 680 homes has been sold to builders who hope to start construction on the first phase of housing this year.
New community centre and retail hub proposed for Littleport
- Credit: ECDC planning portal
Brockmans Gin considers opening distillery 19th January, 2021 by Nicola Carruthers
English brand Brockmans Gin has submitted a planning application to build a distillery on the site of founder Neil Everitt’s farm in Cambridgeshire.
Neil Everitt co-founded Brockmans in 2008
Earlier this month, a planning application was submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council for the development of a distillery on Everitt’s farm near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The farm, which originally produced fruit, has been in Everitt’s family for more than a century.
In a statement to
The proposed project would involve the refurbishment of disused farm buildings at the 55-acre site.
Watercourse condition and capacity
Insufficient SuDS (sustainable drainage system) for amenity and biodiversity
Shared maintenance of permeable paving
Havebury Housing Association submitted their plans for the Brick Lane housing last June but has met with widespread opposition.
Havebury says all 55 homes will be affordable, promising a split of shared ownership and rented.
They claim the six-acre site is ideal to help meet the needs of a district that has a big waiting list for housing.
The housing association quotes correspondence with Kim Langley, of East Cambridgeshire District Council.
Havebury says that confirms the housing need for East Cambridgeshire and Mepal specifically as at June 2019 was 530 applicants in total on the housing register.