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No Immediate Enforcement Action to be Taken Against Mill Road Tesco
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 from […]
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Future Management of Cambridge’s Parks and Green Spaces
Residents of Garlic Row Enjoying Stourbridge Common Cambridge City Council held a Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 12th of March 2009. One of the items on the agenda was a draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy for the City. I spoke on this item to comment on the fact that no specific mention of […]
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Cambridge City Council Meeting 11 September 2008
On Thursday 11th September 2008 I went to watch a Cambridge City Council meeting, I’m writing here to share what I observed. Jesus Green “Exhibition” I arrived at 17.00 to look at a presentation on the consultation responses received by the council prior to it submitting a bid to the lottery for about two million […]
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Semi-Vertical Cycle Parking for University Arms Hotel
Builders working on the @university_arms hotel in Cambridge have discovered they don’t have room to install the planned cycle parking racks in the basement so are asking councillors if “semi-vertical” racks would be OK for most of the spaces https://t.co/3L7HGOswbq @CamCycle pic.twitter.com/DV6fnnUeop — Richard Taylor (@RTaylorUK) 11 March 2018 I have written to the council: […]
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Bus Stops and Crossings for Milton Road
I'm at the @GreaterCambs Milton Road bus lane and crossings workshop. Filming and photography is banned inside so I won't be live tweeting. pic.twitter.com/6XxgpY8GCS — Richard Taylor (@RTaylorUK) September 19, 2017 On Tuesday the 19th of September 2017 the Greater Cambridge Partnership, the organisation responsible for allocating the City Deal investment in Cambridge held a […]
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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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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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Cambridge UKIP Candidate Explains His Absence from Hustings Events
Richard Taylor: Patrick O’Flynn hasn’t been attending general election hustings in Cambridge so I’d like to ask him why he hasn’t been attending. Do you not think it’s valuable to see you up on stage not just at a great public meeting like this, which it would fantastic if other parties held, but next to […]
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Labour Taking Control of Cambridge City Council
Following the election result on the morning of the 23rd of May 2014 I went on Paul Stainton’s Bigger Breakfast show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire to discuss Labour taking control of Cambridge City Council. I have transcribed the elements of the show relating to Cambridge, which include exchanges with the outgoing council leader Liberal Democrat […]