In March 2016, George Osborne described the initiative to turn the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor into a single, knowledge-intensive cluster that competes on a global scale. Our understanding for the underlying intention of any project relating to Housing or Infrastructure within this corridor, is to facilitate A New Connectivity, for what we would coin to be an already existing ‘Intellectual Regiopolis’.

We believe that this area is already saturated with villages, towns and cities, with ‘The Countryside’ under threat from a web of secondary roads and piecemeal development. The projected growth patterns for this corridor demands of any new infrastructure to be fully coordinated, inter-linking and intensifying existing settlement. We propose hereby, to

1. Promote Regiopolitan Thinking.

2. Promote Urban Intensification, counteracting Sprawl.

3. Address the Housing crisis with High-Density, Mixed Use.

4. Promote Transport-oriented Development.

5. Reinstate and further Develop East – West (ideally Circular) Rail Connections.

Ultimately, it would protect what remains left to enjoy of the English Countryside.