Richard Taylor

On the first of May 2012 I attended a meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership, held in the Guildhall.
The meeting was rendered almost pointless by the absence of both elected councillors who should have been there, Cambridge City Council’s executive councillor for policing, Tim Bick (Liberal Democrat) and Police Authority representative and the partnership’s [...]

Conservative Candidate Andre Beaumont (Newham) Addresses the Student Hustings

On the 30th of April 2012 I observed a hustings run by the Cambridge University Students Union for candidates from the Castle, Market, Newnham and Queen Edith’s wards on Cambridge City Council (wards selected for their large Cambridge University student populations).
The event had been advertised via [...]

I have submitted the following message to the council’s democratic services email address, copying Councillor Tim Bick:

1. If a suitably less restrictive filming policy is adopted during the Thursday 19th April 2012 full council meeting I would like to film/photograph the council meeting from the point the new policy is adopted. I’d like [...]

Only Sign of Elections in Arbury - Posters for Labour’s Mike Todd-Jones.

Cambridge City Council elections are to be held on Thursday the 3rd of May 2012.
Cambridge is split into fourteen wards, there are three council seats for each ward. The elections in May are for one seat in each ward, so a [...]

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Later today Cambridge’s West Central Area Committee will consider a proposal from Cambridgeshire Police to introduce a “dispersal zone” under S30 of New Labour’s Antisocial Behaviour Act into part of the city centre. If approved PCSOs would be able to order two or more people to separate, and/or leave the area, if [...]