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Looking into the Folk Festival Mistakes
On the evening of Monday the 30th of March 2009 Cambridge City Council’s Civic Affairs Committee considered a report into how the council came to lose £644,951 which was not paid to the council by the company it appointed to sell Folk Festival tickets online in 2008. I have written a previous article on the […]
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Questions to the Cambridge City Council Executive – February 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 that […]
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Chisholm Trail and New Bridge Forum – July 2017
Using the opportunity for the public to ask questions at the Chisholm Trail and New Bridge Greater Cambridge Partnership Forum 12 July 2017 I: Got a commitment from the Greater Cambridge Partnership to consider formally permitting cycling on the new “Chisholm Trail” paths across Coldhams Common and Ditton Meadows. (Currently the plans are for the […]
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Executive Councillor for Bins Speaks On Cambridge’s Bin Emptying Crisis
Emptying the bins is one of the most important things Cambridge City Council does. The council has an executive councillor for bins, that role is currently held by Cllr Peter Roberts (Labour, Abbey). A bonus allowance of £8,346 per year is offered to each executive councillor. Cambridge City Council has been missing bin collections and, […]
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First Public Meeting of Greater Cambridge City Deal Board Members
On the 18th of November 2014 I observed the first public meeting of the members of the Greater Cambridge City Deal Board. The Greater Cambridge City Deal is at least £100m which the UK has, as a nation, decided to invest in Cambridge. Following the initial £100m two further central government grants of £200m each […]
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Suck My Formaldehyde Pickled Balls – My Response
It appears an ex Cambridge City Councillor sending me a message in public saying: “suck my formaldehyde pickled balls” is news. Ex Cllr Brown’s astonishing invitation to me shows how unpleasant people can be to those entering discussion about how we run Cambridge and our wider society. I think this kind of exchange is something […]
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List of Cambridgeshire County Councillors Voting Against Publishing Their Voting Record
On the 25th of March 2014 Cambridgeshire County Councillors voted on if details of how they have voted at meetings ought be published. I obtained the voting record by filming the screens at the meeting which display the votes cast to those present and am publishing below a list of those councillors who voted against […]
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More Mud for Stourbridge Common
Cambridge City Council is proposing to spend £15,000 on making a muddy bit of Stourbridge Common even muddier. The published proposal, which the council are currently seeking comments on, states: Cambridge City Council is proposing to create a small ‘scrape’ in the Common, by excavating a small area of land within an existing wet area. […]
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Tackling Problems Caused by Street Drinkers in East Cambridge
I observed Cambridge’s East Area Committee on Thursday the 2nd of August 2012. One of the key things raised, as usual for East Area Committee meetings, was crime, and other problems related to street drinkers in the area. The committee heard from two members of the public one of whom was Joanna Dean of Norfolk […]
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No Enforcement For Planning Breach at 4 Bosworth Road
4 Bosworth Road on LastMinute.com 4 Bosworth Road in Cambridge is a property currently being used in a rather unusual manner; as a commercially let shared house which one can book some of the rooms in on an ad-hoc basis via the Arnies Guest House (Cambridge Guest Lodge) website. The use of the property in […]