In December 2007, I heard from a future Arbury Park resident who was expecting to move in to her house in Chadwick Court sometime in September, but it was all inexplicably delayed, and she wasn't being told what was going on. Well, several weeks later, we had discovered that the delay was caused by InSpace building a very small part of the house on land they didn't own (duhhh!!). Agreement was reached with the land owner and a new planning application submitted at the beginning of January. This is still pending but should hopefully be approved in the near future.

The worst of this was the apparent lack of news being given to the affected future residents - these were people that were desperate to know what was going on, but just felt they were getting the run around. I fear that the situation has still not improved because I was recently contacted by one of those residents to see if I'd heard any news. I'm trying to find out who should be briefing the residents so I can find out first hand what is being done.

But it gets worse (I think).

At the time of the new planning application in January, Impington Parish Council were advised of a second application that would arrive sometime later (March or April perhaps) for a similar problem with houses at the end of Starr End. Check out this map to see these locations. The good news? We were assured by Places for People that no houses had been allocated to future residents so any delays in occupation would not affect anyone.

Well what do you think? I had an email today from someone who said they'd been waiting to move in to Starr End since September and did I know why there was a delay? So now it appears that houses have been allocated...despite assurances to the contrary.

So what is going on? The future residents aren't seemingly being told what's happening? The Parish Council don't appear to be getting the whole story? And nobody who can do anything about it seems to care what is going on.

I think it stinks. If you know anyone else who is affected by this situation, please ask them to get in touch with me via the feedback form on this web site...I want to try to get the whole picture and try to get some clarity to what is going on. I'll do what I can!