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Councillors Reject Plans to Demolish The Queen Edith Pub
I observed Cambridge City Council’s South Area Committee on the 11th of November 2010 where councillors refused to give planning permission for the demolition of The Queen Edith pub and for new homes to be built on the site. Councillors on the committee were told by the planning officer that Cambridge City Council’s own planning […]
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South Cambridge Police Priorities – March 2010
Police report to councillors at area committees and councillors approve policing priorities for the next few months. I observed Cambridge’s South Area committee on the 11th of March 2010 where the first thing councillors turned to was deciding policing priorities for the South of the city. The police presented their report on the last three […]
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Management of the Trees between Templemore Close and Holbrook Road
Drastic crown reduction has taken place at one end of a previously magnificent line of trees between Templemore Close and Holbrook Road. Earlier today someone living near Glebe Road in Cambridge phoned me up to talk about tree works being carried out at the back of Templemore Close. Templemore Close is a small cul-de-sac of […]
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Councillors Approve Parker’s Piece Ice-Rink for 2009
In 2008 the ice rink and stalls were very close to the paths bringing those trying to pass through into conflict with shoppers. (Photo – CycleStreets [license] During Cambridge City Council’s planning committee on the 19th of August 2009 councillors approved plans for an ice-rink, market, and fair-ground ride to be placed on Parker’s Piece […]
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Proposed Job Cuts at the Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge University Press (CUP) are planning to cut 160 jobs in the city, probably as the first stage of plans to close the printing business of the CUP within three years. There was discussion of CUP’s plans at Cambridge City Council’s Full Council meeting on February 26th 2009, a full record of what was […]
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Cambridge Strawberry Fair 2009 Conditions
I attended Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 13th of November where a decision on if the City Council should allow the Strawberry Fair to go ahead in 2009, and if it was to go ahead under what conditions. The decision made was to allow the fair to go-ahead, specifically the decision […]
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Councillors Approve CB1 Outline Plans
Following a 09.30 start it was just before 19.00 when the Cambridge City Council planning committee meeting considering the outline plans for the “CB1” station area redevelopment finally concluded with a vote. Six Liberal Democrat councillors (Al Bander, Baker, Blair, Dixon, Holness, and Reid) voted in favour of accepting the officers’ recommendation to approve the […]