Cambridge City Councillors have given up trying to sort out this wall.
The committee of councillors who’ve spent years trying, and failing, to get a single streetlight put up have now found themselves outwitted by a wall.
The Cambridge West Central Area Committee on the 21st of June 2011 declared it “impossible” to get the weed [...]
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 Wednesday the 23rd of February 2011 the Cambridge News ran an article on problems with students parking in Guest Road, Cambridge. The article contained a quote from a Cambridgeshire County Council spokesman who was reported as saying:
The council does not issue parking permits to students and if we find out a student has one [...]
Current plans include planting three black poplars in the middle of the grass a hundred metres or so into the common from the point this photo was taken. I think this wedge of open grass should be left as it multiplies the sense of space.
I spoke at the special meeting of the West Central Area [...]
Cambridge City Council has felled many trees from Midsummer Common; significant funds have been allocated for replacements.
During the “open forum” of the 24th of June 2010 West Central Area committee where members of the public are able to question councillors I asked:
Is there a date yet for the proposed meeting to discuss new tree planting [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The installation of a Mikvah at 37A Castle Street was one of three planning applications considered by the West/Central Area Committee on the 20th of August 2009.
In Cambridge smaller planning applications which affect only one area of the city are decided at area committees. I observed the consideration of the following applications by the West/Central [...]
I am concerned by a report which found those detained in Cambridge’s Parkside police station were not being kept in a safe environment and not being offered appropriate access to medical care and food.
In my recent article on a damning report into police custody in Cambridgeshire by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate [...]
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.