PETERBOROUGH is on the verge of redevelopment unseen since the Development Corporation changed the face of the city forever in the 1970s and 80s.
Within a decade the city centre will be unrecognisable, with plans promising more than £1bn of investment already on the table.
Not to mention the thousands of homes destined to be built in the city in the same period.
But new plans revealed to
day for Stanground appear just as far reaching - and potentially controversial: a huge warehouse complex creating 5,400 jobs with its own rail freight interchange linked to the Peterborough to Felixstowe line.
Letters are set to go out today to thousands of residents of the area as part of a consultation exercise before any blueprints are drawn up.
There is bound to be opposition, and it will be interesting to see what part people power plays in the final outcome of the proposals.
Serious issues are raised. Yes, bringing jobs to the city is very important, but at what cost to the people of Stanground?
There will clearly be traffic implications, not to mention the impact on the environment - with fears of flooding and threat to wildfowl habitat - and the visual impact of seven large steel clad buildings.
The Evening Telegraph does not profess to have the answers, but it is vitally important those who have the final say do.
We have heard
it all beforePREDICTABLE. That appears to be the overall view on last night's so-called documentary The Poles are Coming, which looked at the issue of east European immigration in Peterborough.
Overcrowded residential areas . . . schools full to capacity . . .health services stretched to the limit . . . all issues raised many times in the ET.
It told the people of Peterborough nothing they did not already know.
But it will have done little to enhance the perception of the city to outsiders.
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