Friends of the Cam have submitted an objection to the plan to build a fixed dedicated bus route from Cambridge (Grange Road) to Cambourne, via Coton, destroying a traditional orchard of national importance in the process. The County Council have applied for a Transport and Works Act Order; the next likely step is for the Department of Transport to set up a Public Inquiry, although it is within its power to disallow the project. The reasons for our objection are set out below.

Friends of the Cam are mounting an exhibition of the state of the river Cam, and what we can do about it, between 1st and 16th February. If you are near Cambridge Central Library, come and see us in the main foyer, and find out what we do.

The Public Inquiry on the relocation of Milton waste water treatment plant has concluded. In the Inquiry, Save Honey Hill exposed the weakness of Anglian Water's case, and Friends of the Cam submitted objections to the unnecessary and damaging development. The Planning Inspector was due to report to the Secretary of State by July 2024, but the Government has yet to announce its decision. The latest deadline of 12 January 2025 has now been abandoned, and an anouncement is said to be made in April, 2025, to take account of new planning legislation. 

Friends of the Cam campaign for an unpolluted river, against over-abstraction from it, and the unsustainable growth in buildings and infrastructure that impact on both. Designating short stretches of rivers may lead to some very limited local improvement of water quality, at the expense of water quality elsewhere. Friends of the Cam opposed the DBA application in the consultation for reasons given below.