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Proposed Cambridge City Council Planning Reforms From Cllr Hipkin
Only Cambridge’s independent councillor, John Hipkin, has submitted a motion to Cambridge City Council’s full council on Thursday the 27th of February. None of the Liberal Democrat or Labour councillors, nor the Conservative, have any matter which they have thought worthy of submitting a motion to the full council on. This lack of activity is […]
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Students Do Not Vote for Community Independents Says Cllr John Hipkin
Cllr John Hipkin has sent a comment on the Castle Ward election results to an email list. I thought the content of the message was surprising and ought be made available to a wider audience so I am publishing it here. I am astonished at Cllr Hipkin drawing a sharp distinction between “residents” and “students” […]
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Cllr Ward Defends Sidelining Arboricultural Officers on Jesus Green Plans
Cllr Tim Ward has written a letter to the Cambridge Evening news which has been published today (13th December 2008). He is responding to Bronwyn Hipkin who recently wrote: Having read with alarm of the fate of 59 trees on Jesus Green which Cllr Smith tells us are all diseased and dangerous, I rang the […]
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Milton Road Local Liaison Forum – 5 July 2016
Councillor Jocelynne Scutt has been elected chair of the Milton Road Local Liaison Forum The Milton Road Local Liaison Forum is holding an event including presentations and two design workshop sessions on Tuesday 19th July from 6.30pm-9.00pm at Chesterton Community College. The event is open to all who request to attend. Requests should be made […]
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CamCycle Excluded from Histon Road Design Workshop
Only two of Histon Road’s twelve councillors turned up to the first Greater Cambridge City Deal Local Liaison Forum, set up by the City Deal Board to give local people influence over the proposed remodelling of Histon Road. The two councillors present, Cllrs Hipkin and Todd-Jones decided to exclude CamCycle and Cambridge Past Present and […]
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Attempted Physical Ejection from Greater Cambridge City Deal Meeting on Milton and Histon Roads
On the 13th of June 2016 Greater Cambridge City Deal Officer Richard Preston attempted to physically remove me from a meeting to which all of North Cambridge’s councillors had been invited. The meeting had been called to “establish” influential “Local Liaison Forums” which have been asked to work on the details of the plans for […]
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Live Streaming of Special Cambridge City Council Full Council on the Local Plan
On the 13th of February 2014 I streamed a meeting of Cambridge City Council’s full council live on YouTube. I believe this is the first time one of Cambridge City Council’s meetings has been “broadcast” live. As well as being available live, the videos are available to watch again: Part One Public questions and petitions: […]
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Police and Crime Commissioner Bright on Spying on Student Unions
At the session of the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday the 26th of November 2013 Cambridge MP Julian Huppert asked Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright about the police spying on students unions. This follows a Guardian article: Police tried to spy on Cambridge students, secret footage shows based on footage taken by […]
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Dutch Style Cycleways for Huntingdon Road
Cllr John Hipkin’s latest email newsletter (which he doesn’t publish on the web) carried an article headlined ” Dutch style cycleways on the Huntingdon Road?”. The message, sent on the 30th of August 2013 stated: Please keep a lookout for consultation documents hitting your doormat in the next few weeks and do go to the […]
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Labour and LibDems Let Conservatives Continue Running Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council’s full council on the 21st of May 2013 elected Conservative Cllr Martin Curtis as the new leader of the council. Cllr Curtis then appointed a cabinet comprised solely of Conservative councillors. There were two rounds of voting for the leadership. In the first round st Cllr John Hipkin gained 16 votes from […]