The company already distils its gin in this country using traditional methods and 100-year-old copper stills.
Historic image of the farm near Wilburton where old barns are to be converted to a gin distillery
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“It uniquely balances traditional gin aromas of juniper and coriander with top notes of citrus, blueberries and blackberries to provide a vibrant, intensely smooth taste experience truly like no other,” says the company.
Brockman turns over £10m a year and its gin is for sale in most leading supermarkets – and has a world-wide market.
“We have grown from an idea in the mind of our founders to a multinational, multi-award winning, progressive company with sales in over 50 markets,” says the planning statement.
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4:39 PM January 6, 2021
Last January, East Cambs District Council launched its new Think Zero scheme as well as an ideas forum where residents can share their tips on how the council can reach their zero carbon emissions target by 2050. Councillor Anna Bailey, leader of East Cambs Council, is also pictured.
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East Cambridgeshire District Council is relaunching its Ideas Forum to give residents a chance to submit their thoughts on how the council could reduce their carbon emissions.
The relaunch allows residents to submit their ideas ahead of the creation of the council’s second annual Climate Change Action Plan.
Applicants put forward this photograph to illustrate the cabins planned for new school at Wilburton
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Described as “education ready”, a school for children with autism could open in 2021 and housed in four wooden cabins at Wilburton
Fiona D’Arcy has put in a planning application to East Cambridgeshire District Council to site the cabins at Twentypence Road on a 2.5-acre field.
She says the field was previously used by The Phoenix School as a playing field. The former independent school was based at Willow Tree cottage nearby and the field used for a variety of activities. The school closed in 2018 and Willow Tree cottage was sold with a change to residential use in August 2020,” she says.
According to the council, in 2012 the region’s three homeless hostels were “bursting”.
There were 200 households considered to be in desperate need and 30 households in bed and breakfast accommodation, costing the local authority £750,000 a year.
But months after implementing a new strategy, the council’s team had emptied one of the hostels, reduced the priority list to single figures, slashed the cost of B&B placements to zero and handed a £250,000 saving back to the council.
Eight years after the new strategy was introduced, the housing department is preventing and relieving 350 households from becoming homeless every year.
The department has also gone from spending £1 million a year on B&B provision to having a spend of zero.
Ashberry Homes have submitted plans to build 52 homes in Fordham.
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Plans to build 52 new homes in an East Cambridgeshire village have been submitted.
Ashberry Homes wants to build one to four-bedroom homes on land off Soham Road, Fordham, with 21 properties made as affordable housing.
Plans have been passed to East Cambridgeshire District Council, which also includes ideas to provide nearly one acre of green space.
A new access road would be created off Soham Road, as Ashberry Homes aims to contribute to local infrastructure, including £37,000 towards improvements to the roundabout linking the A142 Fordham Road and the A1123.