Leading figures in agriculture have said the industry will miss the expertise and fierce support of farming advocate Neil Parish, the Conservative MP who
An avenue of lime trees has been planted to commemorate the Duke of Edinburgh’s lasting conservation legacy.
It included planting trees and hedgerows and.
“I have consistently opposed this money-grabbing overdevelopment,” he said of the McCarthy and Stone when it went to a final planning committee in late 2013 after revisions had been made.
“There hasn’t been a significant change in this scheme; it is still simply too large and I think it should have been thrown out from day one.”
This was as many will remember Croylands, then a day care centre, in Cambridge Road, Ely, when it was owned by the county council
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After more than two years of applications, reports and re-submissions, councillors voted by a majority of eight votes to four to refuse McCarthy & Stone’s application.
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