I went with the other members of the planning committee of the district council to visit the Camgrain store on the A11 near Wilbraham. There was a planning committee meeting today to consider the application to extend the site so that it can take in over 300,000 tons of grain. It is a huge enterprise, with grain driers as tall as an office block, and great bunds of earth to shield the serried ranks of grain silos and the noise of the trucks loading and unloading. Some concerns about the impact on the traffic on the A11 with all the lorries coming in. We did eventually vote for the application, which will benefit the economy, and enable East Anglia farmers, including ones in Thriplow and Whittlesford who wrote to me about the proposal, to compete with the rest of the EU. Modern food standards require the sort of technology that the average small arable farmer can't afford, and this site offers a real economy of scale.
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