{"id":359055,"date":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:17:07","slug":"businesses-urge-work-on-oxford-cambridge-railway-to-start-asap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359055\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses urge work on Oxford-Cambridge railway to start asap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com\/ugd\/f2c872_9a90300cfa874a9e81198be919b7dedd.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report by the Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board, external<\/a> has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to move more quickly to propel growth in the so-called &#8220;high-tech corridor&#8221; by speeding up the building of infrastructure and homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The board is backed by 46 organisations including universities, listed companies, and global investors such as AstraZeneca, GSK, Airbus, the Ellison Institute of Technology, Aveva, Bidwells, Leonardo, Silverstone and Darktrace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starting construction in this five-year Parliament would provide the certainty investors needed, said the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firms are worried it will take 18 months for the DCO to be approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have called on the government to fast-track the examination and decision phase and provide clear timelines to ensure construction begins sooner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board previously said the region could add <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq5jp7jw408o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">billions of pounds to the economy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report by the Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board, external has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to move more quickly to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-359055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}