“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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