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News about the campaign to #SaveCotonOrchard and #Farms across Madingley Hill in #Cambridgeshire from being thrown under a Bonkers Busway

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Nov 17

No #soil, no food. No #trees, no oxygen. No #water, no life. Help #SaveCotonOrchard and #StandWithMadingleyHill farms to #DefendNature 🌳 🐝 🚌 ❌ ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 2d

Biodiversity loss for County Wildlife Site, net gain for the Council 🌳🪚🟰💰🗞️ www.facebook.com/share/p/1WLu... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 10d

Back-of-the-envelope calc: the £18m County has blown on experts and fees (so far) to defend the C2C bonkers busway route could have covered Arthur Rank Hospice’s annual funding for nearly 22 years (today’s prices, or 12–16 years once you allow for inflation) Priorities❓

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 12d

𝐂𝟐𝐂 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟖: 𝐆𝐂𝐏’𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐞 🌳🚌❌
At the C2C Inquiry this week, Miranda Fyfe showed the GCP’s busway for what it is: costly, pointless, and indefensible 🔗 m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 20d

The Inquiry runs till 21 November, the Inspectors will give their opinion to the Secretary of State for Transport and she’ll decide on whether to grant the order and let County compulsory purchase the land and cleave Madingley Hill and Coton Orchard in two. Likely find out in 2026.

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 20d

Report by @itvnews.bsky.social on the public inquiry into the £200m Cambourne to Cambridge (terminating in Grange Rd) busway 🌳🚌 ❌ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 20d

BBC News reporting on Cambourne to Cambridge Busway Public Inquiry #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 27d

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Your Last Chance to Help Save Coton Orchard Wildlife Site

A Public Inquiry into the controversial bus road is about to start. Can you help? For nearly a decade, conservationists and the local community have been making the case that it is unnecessary to dest...

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Sep 10

While plotting a new wildflower meadow in Coton Orchard today, OTV Ben found a Rosy Knot-horn moth (Oncocera semirubella). Nationally Scarce B and of conservation concern. Luckily its larval food plants – bird’s-foot trefoil & clover – are thriving here 🔍🐝 Reason 263 to #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Sep 7

Please Pay Attention, Else Next Spring Falls Silent fb.watch/BZgdwzvzj3/?

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Sep 2

No, only reluctantly on X to help #SaveCotonOrchard, preferring mostly to be out under the real
blue sky 🐝

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Aug 29

A moment in Coton…

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Aug 26

What a day❗️Huge thanks to the organisers of the Coton Village Fete for all their hard work and to everyone who joined in the fun 🌻🐝 With proceeds shared with @cambridgeppf.bsky.social fighting fund #CotonAction

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Aug 22

Collecting fruit for the village fête today, a volunteer recalled donning a picking bag here as a child. 50 years on, these same trees still yield their harvest but if the bonkers busway cuts through, our children may never taste their gift 🍎

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Aug 20

Watched Lois and Ben release the moths from their traps in Coton Orchard… what a disgrace it would be if our County Council are given the power to throw this place under a busway 🔍 🐝

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Aug 15

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟭.𝟲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀: Today we joined Rob, whose family has farmed on Madingley Hill for generations, to see the most objected to stretch of the GCP Cambourne to Cambridge busway 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 📺 youtu.be/FzSYWo6QlYM?...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟭.𝟲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Aug 10

Last @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount of 2025, this one in the Coton allotments 🦋

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you Derry & Ylana for showing us around @darwincollegecam.bsky.social garden & orchard today 🍏🐝

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Council plan to route a busway off road across Madingley Hill won’t just fell hundreds of trees, severe hedgerows and nature corridors but also gut farms as one fourth generation farmer tells us, this may be their last harvest if a TWAO is granted #NoFarmsNoFood ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 29

We greatly admire your patience and perseverance Rob.

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks for the heads up. Will look but any more experienced eyes you can send our way would be great! 🤓

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 28

What can we do? As we plod through our Proof of Evidence for the C2C public inquiry, it’s painfully clear that short-term private profit still trumps nature — even in a city renowned for housing some of the world’s brightest minds 🫤

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 26

A lovely morning in Coton Orchard with CLO for our @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount 2025 ⏱️ Sunshine, showers… 133 butterflies across 12 species. Gatekeepers the clear winner. We started with a moth trap with Camb Moth Group, finds still being identified 🔍🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

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CPRE, the countryside charity @cprecountryside.bsky.social · Jul 7

🍏 Coton Orchard is a beautiful example of food production on the edges of our towns and cities. But it’s threatened by a new busway route.

We need better public transport, but not at the cost of precious orchards.

Learn more: www.cpre.org.uk/coton-orchar...

Coton Orchard case study

We are CPRE, the countryside charity. Learn how we're working for a beautiful and thriving countryside that's accessible to everyone - and how to get involved.

www.cpre.org.uk

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Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 12

You can’t offset the roots of a century. You can’t recreate the hum of a traditional orchard. No metric of ‘net gain’ makes this expendable. Surely this is something worth saving❓ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · Jul 10

Halcyon days with @bluebarrelcider.bsky.social #SaveCotonOrchard #Cider 🍎