Cambridge City Council’s Mayor and Deputy Mayor Process into the Council Chamber Before the Councillor Allowances Debate
On the 7th of April I observed a Cambridge City Council meeting. Despite many important items being on the agenda, including the future of the NHS and setting the city wide police priorities the item to which most time [...]
Friends of Midsummer Common AGM 2011. Mr Baxter (middle) in the chair.
On Wednesday the 16th of March 2011 I attended the 4th Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Midsummer Common.
Key Points:
The manager of the Fort St. George Public House attended and argued he, and his staff ought be allowed to continue [...]
This Wedge of Grass Contributes to the Sense of Wide Open Space on Midsummer Common.
While Cambridge City Council were considering their recent tree works on Midsummer Common one of the suggestions I made was that the sense of large open space in the centre of the city ought be kept. I argued against encroaching too [...]
On the 24th of September 2010 I observed, and filmed, a meeting of the Cambridge City Council Executive.
Key Points
Some councillors are very uncomfortable with having their meetings filmed.
There is massive uncertainty about how much money the City Council will have in the future.
Cambridge City Council wants to raise a hyperlocal tax to [...]
On the 22nd of September 2010 I observed, and filmed, Cambridge City Council’s planning committee as they discussed the proposed felling of a healthy western red cedar tree and two holly trees in Holy Trinity Churchyard in the City Centre. This was the first City Council deliberation ever to have been filmed, the council [...]
Plane Tree Avenue, Jesus Green, Cambridge.
On Thursday the 1st of July 2010 I attended a seminar and workshop on new tree planting for Jesus Green and Midsummer Common. The fact the meeting had been scheduled was only revealed in public following a question I asked at the West Central Area committee on the 24th [...]
Midsummer Common - Cambridge
On the 17th of March 2010 I and about thirty others attended an annual general meeting of the Friends of Midsummer Common. This was a meeting, open to all, which had been advertised on the common.
Interesting Points
Council officer Alistair Wilson reported that the Horse Chestnuts on Victoria avenue have only a year [...]
Around 150 people attended a public event for Cambridge city residents to discuss the potential for tall buildings in the city. .
On the 3rd of March I attended a series of talks, and a workshop, discussing tall buildings in Cambridge. Kati Preston, the wife of Cambridge City Council’s Historical Environment Manager, John Preston, explained [...]
The door into the West/Central area committee. Council rules prevented me from taking a more interesting photo showing councillors and the police inside the meeting.
On the 4th of February I observed the West Central area committee where councillors were considering, at an early stage, the possibility of a new dispersal zone in the city centre. [...]
This evening I watched councillors refuse a planning application from Cambridge Tennis Club on Wilberforce Road. The club had applied for permission to put up floodlights on three currently unlit courts.
The Vote
Cambridge City Council don’t record which why councillors vote, even on matters of substantial public interest such as this application. I have therefore [...]
Councillor Armstrong, Councillor Blair, Councillor Boyce, Councillor Levy, Councillor Liddle, Councillor McGovern, Councillor Nimmo-Smith, Councillor Pitt, Councillor Todd-Jones, Councillor Upstone, Councillor Ward, Councillor Benstead, Councillor Blencowe, Councillor Bradnack, Councillor Ellis-Miller, Councillor Hart, Councillor Herbert, Councillor Howell, Councillor Lynn, Councillor Shah, Councillor Smart, Councillor Walker, Councillor Wright, Councillor AlBander, Councillor Baker, Councillor Blackhurst, Councillor Dryden, Councillor McPherson, Councillor Newbold, Councillor Sanders, Councillor Stuart, Councillor Taylor, Councillor Bick, Councillor Cantrill, Councillor Dixon, Councillor Hipkin, Councillor Kightley, Councillor Reid, Councillor Rosenstiel, Councillor Smith, Councillor Zmura.
Jesus Green, Midsummer Common, New Square, Christ's Pieces, Parker's Piece, Coldham's Common, Romsey Rec, Coleridge Rec, Cherry Hinton Rec.