Cambridge Daily News 16 Oct 1931: Inquiry into expanding Cambridge

An Inquiry opened into plans to expand Cambridge’s boundaries. It was the centre for education, shopping and amusement for adjacent villages where people were still dependent on cesspools: these would be provided with a sewerage system. Less than 500 acres were available for building because of the attitude of certain colleges, but it was undesirable that Cambridge should be filled up as if it were a manufacturing town. Most of the new houses in Shelford and Trumpington were of the working-class type.