At tonight’s meeting of East Cambridgeshire District Council, the council agreed to add the Ely crossing to the list of major schemes that might receive funding from the district’s ‘Community Infrastructure Levy’ – the newly-introduced pot of money the council receives as a result of development in its patch.

I made the point that the Ely crossing, while it might alleviate traffic at the station, would create new traffic problems elsewhere – in several other streets in Ely, for example, at the A10, and of course in Sutton itself, where it is likely that HCV traffic will increase as a result of the scheme.  These problems will also need solutions, and I have therefore told the council that it should be aware of the need to add these to the ‘Community Infrastructure Levy’ list of significant schemes requiring funding in the future.