At Cambridge’s South Area Committee meeting on the 11th of March a proposal to spend a substantial amount of public money buying Local Secrets discount cards for all children in years 7 and 8 (11 and 12 year olds) was presented. Cllr Clare Blair, who made the proposal, explained that these cards would then [...]
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Station Area Redevelopment On Hold as Infrastructure Payments Renegotiated
Sunday, February 21, 2010
City Council Planners “Outwitted and Outflanked” by Station Area Developers Warns Ex Councillor.
On the 18th of February 2010 Cambridge City Council’s Director of Planning, Simon Payne, was summoned to appear in-front of the East Area Committee. Councillors and members of the public wanted to grill the senior officer over payments the company behind the of [...]
Cambridge Dispersal Zone Renewed and Shrunk Without Discussion
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Red - Area of Current Dispersal Zone from 3 Jan 2010
Blue - Area of Previous Dispersal Zone to 3 Jan 2010
Note: East Road itself was excluded from the previous zone.
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On the 18th of January 2010 I attended Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources committee to ask about council leader Ian Nimmo-Smith’s recent [...]
Cambridge City Council Harassing Students for Council Tax
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Given the importance of research students to the City of Cambridge it is astonishing that the City Council has recently increased the level of harassment to which they subject those working towards a PhD. The council is sending council tax bills to research students. This has been a problem for many years, but in [...]
No Immediate Enforcement Action to be Taken Against Mill Road Tesco
Thursday, August 20, 2009
On the 20th of August 2009 I attended a special Cambridge City Council East Area committee meeting which had been called to decide the council’s response to statements by Tesco indicating their intent to ignore planning conditions relating to their Mill Road store. The conditions state that deliveries of goods have to be made [...]
Mill Road Tesco - Application for Alcohol Licence Refused
Monday, August 17, 2009
Cambridge City Councillors rejected Tesco’s application to sell alcohol in their new Mill Road store. City Council rules forbid photography at meetings without permission so this photograph was not taken during the meeting.
On the the 17th of August 2009 I observed a Cambridge City Council licensing committee comprising Cllr Benstead, Cllr McGovern and [...]
Questions to the Cambridge City Council Executive - February 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
At full Cambridge City Council meetings councillors are able to ask questions to executive councillors; these have to be submitted in writing the day before the meeting. A ballot is held to determine the order of questions and as many as can be dealt with in thirty minutes are answered. Any questions remaining beyond [...]
Public Meeting - Two Way Cycling on One Way Streets
Friday, December 19, 2008
I have just returned from a public meeting held at St. Barnabas Church, Mill Road about how “contraflow cycling” on some of the streets off Mill Road should be indicated in the way of signage, road markings, islands etc. Contraflow cycling is where cyclists are allowed to travel in both directions on roads which are [...]
Redevelopment of the Cambridge Station Area
Thursday, October 9, 2008
An outline planning application for the redevelopment of the Cambridge Station Area is going before a planning committee on Wednesday 15th of October 2008, it is due to start at 0930 in the college generally known as Newhall and is expected to last all day.
The Developer’s Website on the Project
Agenda for the Planning Meeting on [...]