
Cambridge News – “Campaigners concern at government hope to ‘accelerate’ Cambridge sewage works plans under new housing vision”
BBC Cambridgeshire: Save Honey Hill interviewed on the Chris Mann show
We were very graciously invited onto the Chris Mann show and interviewed by Louise Hulland about the Planning Inspector’s report into Anglian Water’s DCO application and its failings.
The interview was on Thursday 18th May at 17:10 (the show is from 14:00-18:00)
Listen below. The interview is at 3:10 to 3:14
Cambridge Independent – Anglian Water submits Honey Hill sewage works proposal to Planning Inspectorate
Cambridge Independent – Anglian Water submits Honey Hill sewage works proposal to Planning Inspectorate
BBC News: “Horningsea sewage plant plan branded ridiculous by residents”
The BBC have written about the attempt to relocate the sewage works to green belt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64664781
Anglian Water submits plans for new Honey Hill sewage plant near Cambridge
Great article from Alex Spencer of the Cambridge Independent about Anglian Water’s application to relocate the sewage works.
Last Stand on Honey Hill – A review
Last Stand on Honey Hill by Liz Cotton at The Junction on 19th November 2022
Following on from her very successful stint at the Edinburgh Fringe earlier this year, Save Honey Hill’s very own comedy songstress, Liz Cotton, finally brought her show, Last Stand on Honey Hill, to the Cambridge Junction on Saturday night.
With her marriage on the rocks and her children flying the nest, Liz has used a well-honed skill of writing comic songs to help her cope with all life can throw at her, including a billion pound private water company wanting to plonk its new sewage works on her doorstep.
Fortunately for the Save Honey Hill campaign, Liz took umbrage with these plans and decided to hang her new show around her escapades with some of the Save Honey Hill campaigners who she came to know during the course of writing campaign songs and putting together a campaign choir (The Crap Community Choir).
Saturday night’s show was a sell out and for good reason. Liz’s reputation obviously preceded her and she did not disappoint – people had come from as far away as London. I must confess, I didn’t really know what to expect. Liz had warned us that her show was most definitely for adults only as it included very adult language. But I could not have foreseen how clever and accomplished her writing skills are that her saucy and yes, at times very adult themes and language, were simply hysterically funny and not the slightest bit offensive. Certainly for me, there was more than a hint of recognition in her song titled “Why Don’t You Know What To Do?” as she reeled off a myriad of examples of how her husband, Phil, ‘annoys’ her.
After briefly covering personal and family trials and tribulations, Liz proceeded to bring the audience up to speed with the ridiculous plans Anglian Water have for Honey Hill, ramming home with the use of video and photos, the beauty of the Fens landscape with resident wildlife, that’s being targeted by Anglian Water as the new location for its industrial plant. Through the power of laughter, comedy and Liz’s adorable cat, Purdy, we were all reminded of why we have spent the last couple of years fighting this heinous plan and I for one am incredibly grateful to Liz for the injection of fun in what could otherwise have been a thoroughly miserable time fighting for our Green Belt.
At the end of the show, members of the It’s Crap Community Choir were on hand to join Liz on stage to debut a new number, Honey Hill Honey. They were greeted with rapturous applause and I even spied some younger members of the audience clapping and nodding approvingly with more than a hint of respect for these oldies getting down and strutting their stuff in the name of protest.
Finally, it did not go unnoticed that aforementioned, Phil (Liz’s long suffering [??] husband), was standing proudly at the back of the venue as we all headed to the bar at the end of the show. Clearly their marriage has had a happy ending and hopefully so too will the Save Honey Hill Campaign!

IT’S CRAP in the news
IT’S CRAP by The Save Honey Hill Community Choir has been covered by many local newspapers and shared widely on Twitter and Facebook since its release two weeks ago. It’s even been played on Cambridge105‘s Strummers and Dreamers show.
Our comedy protest song is against the unnecessary relocation of Cambridge’s sewage works to Honey Hill, a beautiful, unspoilt site in Cambridge’s Green Belt. The climate impact of demolishing one functioning sewage plant and building another, just 1.5 km away will be enormous.
The song was written by local resident Liz Cotton and was recorded in the village church. The music video is part of the Save Honey Hill campaign, active on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Anglian Water will be submitting its application later this year to the government’s Planning Inspectorate.
Newspapers
Cambridge Independent – Listen to the extraordinary song from village choir fighting new Honey Hill sewage plant
Cambridgeshire Live – Save Honey Hill campaigners record song in protest of the building of a sewage plant ‘bigger than Wembley’
Ely Standard – ‘It’s Crap’ – Protest choir records song opposing new Anglian Water plant
Cambs Times – ‘It’s Crap’ – Protest choir records song opposing new Anglian Water plant
We are also included in the Planning magazine’s daily news roundup of planning matters:
Planning – Community group taps the power of comic song in battle against sewage plant relocation
Social Media
Save Honey Hill on the Jeremy Sallis show 1st February, 2022
The @jeremysallis show at 10:00 (Tues 1st) is “Causing a Stink” about the controversy in relocating (not improving) the #cambridge sewage works to #greenbelt with £237m of public money.
The Phase 3 consultation on the relocation started last week. This is the final public consultation before Anglian Water submit their Development Consent Order (DCO) to the Planning Inspectorate.
Plus there’s a chance there will be a very special announcement about the Save Honey Hill group’s latest project!