“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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Several Ely school children were privileged to meet and talk to the Duke.
HRH was also happy to meet with a few local well-wishers who were of course happy to meet the Prince.
A maple tree was planted to commemorate the special event.
The Duke also unveiled a carved commemorative stone - a tonne of Cumbrian green slate - which had been inscribed by Sutton calligrapher Tom Perkins.
Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Julie Spence, said: I would like to convey to Her Majesty The Queen, the deep sympathy felt by the whole of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough on hearing the sad news of the death of HRH Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh.
With new lockdown rules and regulations proving to be a hurdle for live ringside sales already this year, Highland cattle breeders will have the opportunity to sell stock at more than one auction in the coming weeks. As well as United Auctions’ live breed sale taking place on March 8 at the Moleigh-based mart, just outside Oban, the Highland Cattle Society’s official annual spring sale – usually held in February – will be run entirely online this year on March 1, with the help of the online livestock marketplace, SellMyLivestock. “There is only one official Highland Cattle Society sale online, which is running separately to the pedigree Highland sale, at Oban, ran by United Auctions,” commented Jim Paice, president of the Highland Cattle Society.