LFG_Cambridge

Cambridge should be the best small city in the world. Accelerate Growth. More Homes. Better Transport. Amazing Facilities. Cambridge chapter of @lfg_uk.

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

Next LFG Cambridge meetup - this Wed 24th June. Join us for a chat and drinks. We'll be discussing everything from EWR to start ups and what we can do to boost Cambridge. 🚀 https://t.co/eGrc6rS82N

[Chris Howell @ChrisHowellFCA]

£250 million on Cambridge South Station - you’d have thought they could have put a new 5G mast there for that money

[Chris Howell @ChrisHowellFCA]

The new Cambridge South Station cost £250m, the new Parla Norte station in Madrid - €16.5m. We must be able to get the cost of UK infrastructure down - the current situation is completely insane and totally unsustainable @paulbristow79 @lfg_uk https://t.co/ggxk8nAJFY

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Good morning!

Today, you have paid £383,407 because of Ed Miliband's failed energy policies. (So far)

British energy bills are among the HIGHEST in the world.

We are shipping BILLIONS to turn off wind farms, even though there is wind.

Are you happy to be picking up Ed's tab?

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Britain is in an Energy Emergency.

But the Government is FAILING TO ACT. They have no plan, no idea what to do, and they’re leaving us exposed.

So today we’re launching The LFG Emergency Energy Bill to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN

Here’s how it would get bills down IMMEDIATELY:

1️⃣ SCRAP all levies on energy bills. These stealth taxes on the British people are unnecessarily hiking up their bills by hundreds of pounds.

2️⃣ REOPEN THE NORTH SEA, and directly deploy the tax revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN.

3️⃣ Stop new CfD contracts and launch an investigation into the system that signed them off. Last year, billpayers paid £1.5 billion for big renewable corporations to THROW ENERGY AWAY. By 2030, it’ll be £8 billion. The existing settlement is a national scandal.

4️⃣ Scrap Clean Power 2030 targets. These needless constraints have pushed civil servants to procure wind at any cost – and at huge expense to the British people.

5️⃣ DITCH the duties of energy regulators, NESO and Ofgem, towards Net Zero goals, so their only focus is to MINIMISE ENERGY COSTS, subject to security of supply.

6️⃣ Hold auctions for connecting to the grid, and directly deploy the revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN

Our Emergency Energy Bill has cross-party support. It is ready to PASS IMMEDIATELY. It does what governments for the past 20 years didn’t – it takes RADICAL ACTION to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN.

There’s no excuse. Last week, the US suspended access to some of the world’s leading frontier AI models. Britain is vulnerable - and our energy prices are strangling our national security. We cannot afford to be at the mercy of other countries or events beyond our control any longer.

The Government needs to GET BILLS DOWN NOW or explain why they’re still letting this emergency destroy our future.

Force Westminster to ACT. Send our Bill to your local MP and sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Ed Miliband. GET BILLS DOWN, NOW!

[Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson]

NEW: Acquisition of Marshall airport site by Hill and Homes England announced - to deliver 10k homes.

Set to become Cambridge East. one of the UK’s largest urban extensions. 1

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

Cambridge LFG Chapter social meetup tomorrow, Wed 20th May. Come and help Cambridge deliver its potential. Sign up here: https://t.co/NBAtPDfvrX 🚀🚀🚀

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

✍️ The consultation on growing Cambridge finishes TONIGHT.

The Vegetable Lobby will do everything they can to constrain the growth of this proposal.

Opportunities, research output, and lower cost of living is on the line.

We can't let them win.

Create your response below. 👇

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

Our whole system of delivering transport infrastructure is completely broken. Secure the land for transport and new homes. Pay for the infrastructure with a development levy on the new homes and JFDI.

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

We look forward to delivery of the [checks notes] 'Project level Strategic Outline Business Case'. Suggestion - just ask AI to produce this report and focus on getting costs of mass transit down to the European average and actually building the transport. https://t.co/IukRIhcsxZ

[Paul Bristow @paulbristow79]

🚆 LIGHT RAIL IN CAMBRIDGE 🚆

Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) in #Cambridge, which includes Light Rail, is one step closer. 💪

This work by the Cambridge Growth Company & my Mayoral Authority helps my plan to get Cambridgeshire & Peterborough moving 💙

https://t.co/Fx1EclbRx8

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

The SOBC for the Ely Area Junction Upgrade was kicked off in 2018, and showed a very strong business case, despite our ludicrously expensive infrastructure costs. We still have no junction upgrade 8 years later.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

The Tunbridge Wells water scandal is a microcosm of Britain today.

We should be able to provide clean running water to everyone all year round.

@pursuitofprog in @CapX 👇

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

@DuncanStott Upgrading one rail junction near Ely. Over this time the cost estimates for the work increased from £25m to £500m. @paulbristow79 @LordPeterHendy https://t.co/cjpi6YqYk9

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

£m's of taxpayers money has been spent over many years on 'feasibility studies' all showing this is a good value project that will deliver growth (even at our extraordinary costs of doing anything on a railway) and still all we get is delay. Just do it. https://t.co/QPueT1HjCb

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

This is the human misery caused by failure to grow Cambridge to fulfill its potential. Many commutes from affordable family homes are even longer. People who could be researching cures for cancer or solving climate change are sitting in traffic jams. https://t.co/q1hTaeOrEF

[David Stillwell @david_stillwell]

Today I had a conversation with another Cambridge faculty who is buying a house 40 minutes away because they can't afford any closer. This policy is helping to destroy what makes Cambridge special. Can't have a collegiate community with a 40 minute commute.

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

It is a scandal https://t.co/ll7NRDvBGN

[David Stillwell @david_stillwell]

@ADectis I cycle past acres of fields on my way to work, some of which are within a mile of central Cambridge. Growing wheat close to the city centre, while the humans struggle under extortionate rents and mortgages, should be a scandal.

[David Stillwell @david_stillwell]

@ADectis I cycle past acres of fields on my way to work, some of which are within a mile of central Cambridge. Growing wheat close to the city centre, while the humans struggle under extortionate rents and mortgages, should be a scandal.

[David Stillwell @david_stillwell]

Today I had a conversation with another Cambridge faculty who is buying a house 40 minutes away because they can't afford any closer. This policy is helping to destroy what makes Cambridge special. Can't have a collegiate community with a 40 minute commute.

[Chris Howell @ChrisHowellFCA]

More asburd Cambridge NIMBYing. Education charity wants to build exemplar library. Locals threaten legal action after plans approved. The now apparently sacred Christ's Lane was only opened to the public in 2008 - previously covered by a hideous 60s block. https://t.co/kIgwJcbJvH

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

If you can only watch one speech this weekend, make it this one