Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP): an update

Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP): an update

Posted on Nov 19, 2024 by jsw  | Tags: Cambridge Waste Water Treatment, WWTP

Honey Hill by Andy Field

We’ve written in the past about our concerns regarding Anglian Water’s proposal to relocate the Cambridge WWTP from Milton to Honey Hill, which is in the Cambridge Green Belt.  We’ve previously responded to Anglian Water’s consultations, and in November we wrote to the Planning Inspectorate outlining our objections.  Last week we wrote to Steve Reed MP, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, responding to his letter inviting representations from interested parties to a Post Examination submission made by the Applicant.   You can read our letter here.  In our letter we maintain our strong objections to the relocation, and support the stance taken by the Save Honey Hill Group.  We also flag up the fact that, in May 2024, the then Government breached its own £250m Funding Cap on this project by allowing Homes England to award it a further £50m of capital funding from the Homes Infrastructure Fund.  This project will prove to be an ongoing drain on scarce national resources by a company which is failing to deliver effective leakage control or pollution control by its existing facilities, except at the existing main Cambridge WWT.

We’ve now written to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs following his letter of 16^th October in which he invited further representations from interested parties. You can read our response here.