NIC Publishes Final Cambridge Oxford ‘Arc' Paper

Today's entry reports on the final report into the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor.

The National Infrastructure Commission was charged with producing a report into capturing the potential of the 'brain belt' running from Cambridge to Oxford via Milton Keynes.

It produced an interim report (reported in this blog post) exactly a year before producing its final report last week. The final report can be found here, but here, as always, is a summary and analysis.

The main finding of the report is that housebuilding needs to double to realise the potential of the corridor, enabled by both a new road (the Oxford-Cambridge Expressway) and railway (East-West Rail), to open by 2030.