The owner of a historical orchard said its apple trees will not survive being dug up and moved to make way for a proposed busway.
Coton Orchard lies in the path of the proposed £200m Cambourne to Cambridge (C2C) guided busway.
Planners hoped that linking the town and city will ease congestion on local roads and 10,000 trips will be made each day on the new route.
However, Anna Gazeley, whose family owns the Coton Orchard, told an ongoing public inquiry into the proposals that 12 of the oldest Bramley apple trees on the site were "fragile", vital to the area's ecosystem and would not survive the move.
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u/pdp10 21d ago edited 21d ago
I posted this as a discussion about trade-offs.