Press release from NEG responding to the budget and RIS2 publication and missed opportunity for Government to announce cancellation of the Ox-Cam Expressway. Pause does not equal Cancellation!

Our campaigning day in Westminster was a huge success. We met with a number of MPs from across the Arc and walked our petition past Parliament to Downing Street. The Prime Minister and all MPs can be in no doubt whatsoever that this proposed Expressway is not needed and not wanted

NEG announces events on 26th February. Handing in cancel the Ox-Cam Expressway Petitions into 10 Downing Street, and a “drop-in” event in Parliament for MPs & Peers to find out more about our campaign

NEG expresses surprise that no contact appears to have been made by Grant Shapps or his department with the Local Authorities along on the Ox-Cam Arc, despite the reported assertions that he had consulted widely about whether the target of 1 million houses across the Ox-Cam Arc could still be delivered if the Expressway were to be scrapped.

NEG has written to the Chancellor to urge him to cancel both the Ox-Cam Expressway and targets for one million houses across the Arc based on his budget’s priority for the environment & changes in Treasury rules to enable infrastructure investment in the regions

NEG has today written open letters to Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and Brexit parties asking for a statement on the parties’ position on the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway & target of one million new homes along the Arc.

NEG challenges all Oxford to Cambridge parliamentary candidates to support its campaign to STOP the Ox-Cam Expressway.