C2C busway routes will not be compared, council decides
Campaigners say some 500 apple trees in a 100-year-old orchard will be removed.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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Campaigners say some 500 apple trees in a 100-year-old orchard will be removed.
Councillors vote to chop down trees in Coton Orchard for busway from Cambridge to Cambourne
Coton Orchard, near Cambridge, has around 1,000 trees producing 26 varieties of apples, as well as plums and pears, and is a designated habitat of principal importance.
Coton Orchard can literally boast a partridge in a pear tree – but the idyll is threatened by a busway scheme, which campaigners say is totally unnecessary