The £37.8M contract includes work to begin construction and enabling work for the new station on behalf of partners Essex County Council and Chelmsford
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“This is our chance to end the cronyism and the wastefulness of James Palmer and the Conservatives.
“Palmer has achieved so little in four years, but his spending has spiralled; his office costs are over £5 million per year, not £850,000 as he promised.
“He has handed over £12 million to consultants for the imaginary tunnels of his CAM Metro project and he has given taxpayer-funded jobs to four former Tory councillors.
“And now James Palmer has lost £45 million of government housing funding from his own party, meaning hundreds of families from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough stand to lose the chance of a new home.