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Finish the Greenways
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We, the undersigned, call on the Greater Cambridge Partnership to complete the twelve-route Greenways network it adopted in 2017 — and the Chisholm Trail, the cross-city cycle spine it is also responsible for delivering.
In October 2016, a review commissioned by Cambridgeshire County Council set out twelve traffic-free cycle routes connecting Cambridge to the surrounding villages. Ten years on, one route — Horningsea — is finished. Not one of the bridges and underpasses the review proposed, at twelve places, has been built. Of the roughly 54 km of new path away from roads it recommended, about 6 km exists — the links that would have joined separate corridors into one connected network have not been built. £108m has now been committed to the programme — 30% more than was approved in 2020 — while the network it pays for has shrunk.
The same pattern has stalled the Chisholm Trail. First proposed by campaigner Jim Chisholm in 1998, its phase 1 opened in December 2021 — but phase 2, the section that actually closes the loop to Cambridge North, was projected to open alongside it and still has no construction date, five years on.
We ask the Joint Assembly to:
Commit to completing the network
Deliver the full network the 2016 review set out, using every power already available — including the compulsory purchase powers Cambridgeshire County Council already holds and has used routinely for roads and the Guided Busway, but never once for a greenway.
Publish a delivery date
For every remaining Greenway, with the Executive Board reporting publicly against it every quarter.
Complete phase 2 of the Chisholm Trail
Give it a construction date and deliver it — the section that finally closes the loop to Cambridge North has been projected, then silent, for years.
This network was recommended by an independent review, adopted as GCP's own policy, and has been consistently backed by strong majority support at every public consultation since. Ten years and £108m in, we ask the Joint Assembly to finish what it started — on the Greenways and the Chisholm Trail alike.
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Organised by Looking for Growth Cambridge. Addressed to the Greater Cambridge Partnership's Joint Assembly, the committee that oversees this programme. Under its own petitions protocol, 500 signatures means it must be formally presented at a meeting — with three minutes to address the committee directly — and the Chair has to report what happened back to the Executive Board, the body that actually approves the business cases.
Share the case
The more people who know twelve routes were promised and one was delivered, the harder that is to ignore.
Write to your MP, councillors and the Mayor
The people who can change this are elected. Telling them, in your own words, that you want the network finished is the single most direct thing you can do.
Enter your postcode to find your MP and local councillors via WriteToThem, the standard, free tool for contacting UK elected representatives. It won't let us write the letter for you — form letters get ignored, and WriteToThem blocks identical mass mailings — so write a few sentences in your own words. That's a feature, not a chore: a specific letter is the one that gets read.
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What to mention
- Name your nearest unfinished route and what's actually missing — a bridge, a piece of land, a funding decision. Find your route →
- Point to one specific ask from what would fix it — a statutory route order, using the compulsory purchase powers that already exist, or a single ring-fenced funding settlement.
- Ask for something concrete in reply: a published completion date, or their support for one of those asks.
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