Latest development in the long running saga of the building development going on in Station Road.
Apart from concerns that the builders have chopped down too many trees, which I have asked planning enforcement to investigate, there is now some mix-up over what the two sites will be called, when the houses are built, people move in and life returns to normal, without lorries blocking the roads, vans churning up the grass into mud and some bright spark turning up at three am to load a tarmac machine onto a trailer.
It seems that both sites plumped for variations on "Knight", so one wants to call itself "Knight's Orchard" and the other "Knight's Walk". This has the potential for problems for both the emergency services and, on a more mundane level, the delivery companies (though I suppose people taking parcels back and forward to each other is one way of building up community cohesion on a new development).
South Cambs has sensibly invited the developers to come up with a compromise, and one of the sites may now go for "Templar's Close". You didn't know Whittlesford had such close links with mediaeval orders of chivalry did you? Well - there is Duxford Chapel just over the railway bridge next to the Red Lion, but that was founded by the Carmelites. Next thing we'll have tourists looking for directions to the Rosslyn Chapel.
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