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Public Meeting – Two Way Cycling on One Way Streets
I have just returned from a public meeting held at St. Barnabas Church, Mill Road about how “contraflow cycling” on some of the streets off Mill Road should be indicated in the way of signage, road markings, islands etc. Contraflow cycling is where cyclists are allowed to travel in both directions on roads which are […]
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Call for More Allotments in and Around Cambridge
At the full Council meeting on the 4th of December 2008 A petition signed by 715 local residents was presented to Cambridge City Council by Dave Fox, secretary of Trumpington Allotments Society. He was asking the council to ensure the provision of allotments in the city was sufficient. Cllr Julie Smith had declared an interest […]
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Weekly Green Bin Collections?
I wrote to Cambridge City Councillor Colin Rosenstiel today following his apparent claim that food waste is currently collected weekly in the city: Cllr Rosenstiel, In an article published earlier today on the Cambridge Liberal Democrat website entitled: “Lib Dems attack Tory’s £1.2m plan for weekly rubbish collections” you are quoted as saying: The city […]
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West Central Area Committee – September 2008
I attended the West Central Area Committee on Thursday 18th of September, primarily to comment on a bid to the Lottery which the council is submitting to part-fund work on Jesus Green. The meeting was chaired by Cllr Rod Cantrill as the usual chair, Simon Kightley was absent. Cllr Cantrill decided to alter the running […]
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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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Raw Deal for Boys from Cambridge Summer Activities Programme
I recently noticed advertising for summer holiday activities for children at Cambridge City Council’s sports facilities: Girls are offered dance sessions, netball, hula hooping, “boxercise”, “bootcamp” and indoor cycling – most at £2.50 a session. Boys are just offered £1.30 off the price of a swim between 2-4pm on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays (applies to […]
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Friends of Midsummer Common 2015 AGM – Lighting – Path Widening – Cows
I attended the AGM of the Friends of Midsummer Common in Cambridge on the 22nd of April 2015. The meeting was commendably held in public and many of those attending were, like me, not members of the group. Bat Detector The meeting heard that the group, which receives public money via Cambridge City Council, has […]
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Electing a Cambridge City Councillor for King’s Hedges
In the last election held in Kings Hedges, the ward in which I live, over 76% of electors in the ward did not vote. In the last Cambridge City Council elections Kings Hedges was one of three wards in the city where neither the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats or Labour put up a candidate who lived […]
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Woman Urinated on Cambridge Bowling Green As Public Toilets Are Locked in Evenings
On the 23rd of August 2013 Cambridge based artist and singer Robjn Barker tweeted to report: My mother said she had to piss on the bowling green because there isn’t a toilet open in Cambridge Cambridge City Council runs twenty public toilets in the city. None, not even the coin-operated ones, are open after 8pm […]
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Commenting on Proposed Council Tax Rises
The Conservative party is split on the question of council tax rises. Conservatives in central government are saying they want to see council tax kept at its current level, but locally in Cambridgeshire we’ve got a Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner and a Conservative run County Council who are proposing council tax rises. I have […]