The owner of Coton Orchard has said veteran apple trees will not survive being dug up and moved to make way for the proposed Cambourne to Cambridge (C2C) Busway. Anna Gazeley said her father bought the orchard in 1996 after he had seen other orchards he knew from his childhood disappear.

She stressed to inspectors at the busway inquiry on Wednesday (October 22) the ecological importance of the orchard, and shared fears about the impact the development would have on the “fragile” trees.

A legal representative of Cambridgeshire County Council questioned the credibility of some of Ms Gazeley’s evidence, highlighting a reference in her submission they said had been “hallucinated by AI”.

The C2C Busway project has been put together by the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) . If it goes

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