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Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM 2012
On Tuesday the 6th of November 2012 I observed the Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM. Helmets and High Visibility Clothing The meeting passed a motion allowing the campaign to reserve the right to decline to promote events where the use of helmets and high visibility clothing is required or implied to be required. The motion was […]
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36 Barton Road Cambridge
Rejected Proposal For New House at 36 Barton Rd On Thursday the 21st of June 2012 I attended Cambridge’s West/Central area committee, where the first item on the agenda was deciding on a planning application to build a substantial new detached house at 36 Barton Road, on the corner by Barton Close, with access to […]
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Student Hustings for Cambridge City Council Candidates
Conservative Candidate Andre Beaumont (Newham) Addresses the Student Hustings On the 30th of April 2012 I observed a hustings run by the Cambridge University Students Union for candidates from the Castle, Market, Newnham and Queen Edith’s wards on Cambridge City Council (wards selected for their large Cambridge University student populations). The event had been advertised […]
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Tidying up Round Church Street Wall Unachievable Say Councillors
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 […]
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Cambridge City Council Standards Committee June 2011
I observed a meeting of Cambridge City Council’s standards committee on the evening of Wednesday the 15th of June 2011. The committee is a mixture of appointed individuals and elected councillors. The first thing the committee did was elect a chair and vice chair. The chair had to be elected from the appointees. The committee […]
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East Chesterton County Council By-Election 2010
Candidates in the East Chesterton By-Election On Thursday the 16th of September 2010 there will be a by-election in East Chesterton for the County Council seat left vacant by the resignation of Liberal Democrat Siep Wijsenbeek who had only been a councillor since June 2009. East Chesterton is a ward which has inflicted a series […]
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New Island Platform for Cambridge Station
Rob Fairhead of Network Rail showing a Cambridge Cycling Campaign open meeting a computer generated image of Cambridge station with its new island platform. . On the first Tuesday of every month the Cambridge Cycling Campaign hold an open meeting, usually at the Friends Meeting House. I attended the July 2010 event where Rob Fairhead […]
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New Trees for Jesus Green and Midsummer Common – Seminar and Workshop
Plane Tree Avenue, Jesus Green, Cambridge. On Thursday the 1st of July 2010 I attended a seminar and workshop on new tree planting for Jesus Green and Midsummer Common. The fact the meeting had been scheduled was only revealed in public following a question I asked at the West Central Area committee on the 24th […]
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Friends of Midsummer Common 2010 AGM
Midsummer Common – Cambridge On the 17th of March 2010 I and about thirty others attended an annual general meeting of the Friends of Midsummer Common. This was a meeting, open to all, which had been advertised on the common. Interesting Points Council officer Alistair Wilson reported that the Horse Chestnuts on Victoria avenue have […]
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Jesus Green Update – January 2010
Plane Tree Avenue, Jesus Green, Cambridge Key Points There is a current planning application to give the SkatePark permanent planning permission; it currently only has temporary permission,. It is unclear if the council’s proposals to expand the park would need a further application. Councillors have been dissuaded from tarmacing over more of the green to […]