🧵 from #NorthCambridge event the day after the #OxCamArc event.

Community societies are struggling to survive - the dissolution of the 70+ year old Cambs Association for Local History being one. cambridgetownowl.com/2026/10/06/c... #OxCamArc #NorthCambridge

The frontline community workers in #NorthCambridge told me of a city that is ***very different*** to the one that Bidwells & property people described at the #OxCamArc event I was at yesterday 😳 Disconnect between wealthy, affluent & connected vs rest of city looks more like a chasm than a gap.

#BrokenBrexitBritain - someone removed the live bus times board. No poster replacement. This on the current busway (they want to build 3 more!). That was after yesterday’s ghost-buses. Puts #OxCamArc into perspective

NEW BLOGPOST: “What does good growth look like?” cambridgetownowl.com/2026/10/06/w... More than a few corporates are asking the same Q. Here was one event in Cambridge on the #OxCamArc

NEW BLOGPOST: "Communications between developers and local residents, and from central-government-sponsored institutions and local government has lots of room for improvement" cambridgetownowl.com/2026/10/06/w... Today at the #OxCamArc

#OxCamArc “Enabling Growth” - re OxCamArc “This is the first time it is being driven not by housing, but by businesses & growth” Naomi Green of England’s Economic Heartland (sub-national transport org of Dept for Transport).

Next up: Delivering good growth, at #OxCamArc - central govt panellists
MHCLH, Homes England, plus Peter Freeman of CamDevCorp)

#OxCamArc Stephen Kelly (GCSP) says Bedford & Northampton should be incorporated in government plans - I agree cambridgetownowl.com/2025/09/09/c...

“I’ve been here for ten years” Stephen Kelly of Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service. (I’m old enough to remember Cambridge in the 1980s… 🙃)
He arrived after the draft local plan was declared unsound by planning inspectors (4 years of heavy lifting later & 2018 plan was signed off) #OxCamArc

“Oxford is constrained by tight boundaries, floodplains, lack of infrastructure, second most unequal city in U.K., …we need the powers to grow” Tom Bridgman of @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social #OxCamArc

…I have issues with comparisons to cities in the USA cambridgetownowl.com/2026/10/03/o... #OxCamArc

#OxCamArc opening presentation talking about 150,000 homes in Greater Cambridge - citing the Public First study. Which I picked holes in recently cambridgetownowl.com/2026/10/02/p...

At: “Delivering good growth across the Oxford to Cambridge Corridor”

www.bidwells.co.uk/insights-rep... #OxCamArc <- Will be posting to this hashtag