Coton View 🍃💚🍃

Wassailing wasn’t just singing. It was a winter blessing for orchards, where people toasted trees with cider and hung bits of bread for the robins. A good harvest began with a good song. #FolkloreThursday Art: Pauling Baynes

@AnnHawkins @paulbristow79 *against the GCP

@markrwilliamson @CambsCC And don’t forget the financial exposure of the GCP schemes running over budget and the significant cash flow deficits. Borrowings not having been accounted for in the County’s capital strategy as the accountable body.

@Sam_in_Cam Judge Mark Bishop called CCC “rigid and blinkered” in the St Ives Busway HSE ruling. The same mindset underpins all their decisions. CSET gas pipeline. C2C overlaps with the Madingley Hill reservoir and EWR. Huge cash deficits. Yet CCC pushes on, ignoring sensible alternatives 🚍

Sent this of effect of ash dieback at Madingley Wood. Not one of the reserves managed by @wildlifebcn in the report below.

Pausing to admire a tree inked on firelit sky.

‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told ⁦⁦@guardian⁩ Charlie West theguardian.com/environment/20…

@greenarteries @markrwilliamson @MonicaHone @CambridgeIndy @GreaterCambs @CambsCC Where once there was grass now there’s red tarmac. When once there were wonderful established cherry trees, now there’s close to nothing. Think of this, Coton orchard and more… killing trees and green space Is the reason why GCP exists.

In @thetimes @LiddleRod calls these “stories of vanishingly small importance” happening “in every town or city,” where “the beauty of our surroundings” is quietly eroded. The @CambsCC bonkers busway is one of them. The Inquiry has wrapped and now we face months of waiting – but we can’t let the decision be made in the shadows. Speaking up matters. Please keep watching thetimes.com/article/1c8ccd…

Honoured to be among the first to plant @nationaltrust’s Sycamore Gap #TreesOfHope 🌳 🪏 🐝 @BBCNews bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We’re excited to welcome the Tree of Hope from @nationaltrust, going into Coton’s soil as Tree Week begins and the busway Inquiry ends. Planting hope for tomorrow 🌳🐝

The Cambourne to Cambridge busway public inquiry has closed. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thank you @paulbristow79 🌳🚌❌ facebook.com/share/p/1JrGn8…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝟐𝐂 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 🥇 m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

@BonkersBusway @SaveRotaryWood Forgotten we did that 🎶 🐝 And this wonderful piece from @LizcottonCotton 🍐🐦 Can’t say we haven’t tried everything to #SaveCotonOrchard

@BonkersBusway The trees that are “too short” for animals to graze under, “too close” to be a traditional orchard, the meadow that is “species poor”, the non-fruit trees that don’t even exist and the grass that is “over mown” 🐝

𝐂𝟐𝐂 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐰𝐨: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐂𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞, 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 🥊 Well done, Prof H — grace under fire. Shameful tactics from @CambsCC’s KC 🔗facebook.com/share/17BZaDyq…

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 £𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 🔐 C2C Inquiry Coton villagers take the stand 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 🔗 m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

@BonkersBusway Very proud of the village I call home, grateful for all of our neighbours in Cambridgeshire and beyond 🐝