NEWS: MK Citizen July 10th, 2019
Milton Keynes Council has signed secrecy agreement over new Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Expressway road.
The MK Citizen has reported “Cllr Martin Gowans, the council’s Labour cabinet member for planning and transport, in response to a question from Cllr Jenkins (Cons), confirmed that the council has signed a non-disclosure agreement with the Highways Agency.”
Cllr Jenkins raised this question as a result of the No Expressway Group’s reports from the Brill meeting that Bucks County Council and AVDC had refused to sign NDA’s with Highways England.
They go on to report that “Next Tuesday (July 16), Cllr Gowans is due to make a delegated decision to change the council’s position from “strongly supports” the Expressway in the East West Rail “corridor”.
The new policy would be to maintain the council’s support for the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway, but to make it conditional. They want to see any environmental impacts mitigated, and to include public transport and cycling improvements within the corridor.
They want to work closely with Highways England while out of the gaze of public or councillor scrutiny to “influence route and design options.””
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No Expressway Group believes there is no need for an Oxford-Cambridge Expressway, nor the over-inflated housing targets associated with it, and we will actively campaign against it and support other organisations with the same objectives.
Our environment is a national asset which is critical for everyone’s health and well-being. We must not let it be destroyed.
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