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Ox-Cam Arc

In December 2024, CPRE groups in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, along with national CPRE, agreed a joint policy on the Ox-Cam Arc.

In her speech in January 2025, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, indicated…

The OxCam Arc is a large multi-regional project with lots of bodies involved in its development. In this explainer, CPRE Bedfordshire delves into who’s who, decodes all those abbreviations and outlines the roles they play https://www.cprebeds.org.uk/stories/whos-who-in-the-oxford-cambridge-arc/

CPRE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is concerned about the recent announcement of proposals to establish a Pan Regional Partnership for the Oxford to Cambridge Arc. Read the Stop the Arc (STARC) group’s response to the Pan Regional Partnership https://stopthearc.org/news-updates/2023/1/24/new-government-support-for-the-oxford-cambridge-arc

Our response has been prepared through collaboration between our national charity and the five local CPRE groups within the Arc area: Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

This response document is in three parts:

• CPRE’s overall critique of the Oxford-Cambridge…

More than 90% of survey respondents across five counties of the ‘Ox-Cam Arc’ (Beds, Bucks, Cambs & Peterborough, Northants and Oxon) have told campaigners they reject government plans for the region.