Press

Contact

For comments and interviews and to request information about the campaign so far, please contact the Stop the Arc press office at:

• Nick Burton (STARC) 07930 556012

• Roger Carey (Buckinghamshire Environment Action Group, BEAG) 07973 873245

Recent Press Releases

• New railway’s green claims gravely misleading, claims campaign group

  14 November 2024 (PDF)

• Letter to the National Audit Office
  3 March 2024 (PDF)

• Infrastructure pledge wins Mid Bedfordshire votes
  20 October 2023 (PDF)

• Campaign group attacked by Bedford Lib Dem
  28 April 2023 (PDF)

Background

The Stop the Arc Group (STARC) is a continuation of the No Expressway Group (NEG) that was established in 2018 to raise awareness of the Oxford-Cambridge Expressway across the Arc.

Cancellation of the Expressway in March 2021 left all other plans for the Ox-Cam Arc in place. NEG decided on a name change to reflect a new emphasis for its campaign.

The Stop the Arc Group is NOT against development of the five counties of the Arc but IS against the SCALE of development proposed.

We are not affiliated with any political party and are run on a not-for-profit basis.

We receive donations from our individual supporters but no funds from any group with commercial, political or other interests in the Arc proposals.

We have not found a single community in favour of the Arc proposals.