Committee Room Before Kick-Off
Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on Wednesday the 14th of December 2011.
The chairman, Cllr Tierney, had invited me to join the committee as a co-optee as I have commented extensively on police and crime related matters, which formed the bulk of the agenda.
I [...]
City Councillors Again Outwitted and Outflanked by Station Area Developers?
A vote held by Cambridge City Councillors earlier today (Wed 16th November 2011) will almost certainly delay the provision of the planned 3,000 space cycle park at Cambridge station.
Developers of the “CB1″ station area scheme are required to provide the cycle parking as part of [...]
1 Hemingford Road Cambridge - Given Planning Permission as a Seven Tenant HMO. (Google Streetview)
On Thursday the 27th of October 2011 I observed councillors at Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee give planning permission for 1 Hemingford Road in Romsey to be a House of Multiple Occupancy housing seven tenants. The property, just off [...]
The proposed loading bay for Sainsbury’s on Mill Road (Source p40 of the officer report to the meeting)
On the evening of the 25th of October 2011 I observed Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee reject an application for a Sainsbury’s Local supermarket in the pool hall building at 103 Mill Road.
Key Points
The main reasons [...]
Cambridge City Council Chamber
I observed Cambridge City Council’s full council meeting on Thursday the 20th of October 2011. The following oral questions were answered:
Q1 Costs of Police and Crime Commissioner Elections
From Leader of the Labour opposition Cllr Herbert to the Leader of the council, Liberal Democrat Cllr Reid :
What will the extra cost [...]
Cambridge Guildhall (Library Image: These Doors Were Open for Thursday’s Meeting)
I observed, and took part in, a meeting of Cambridge City Council’s full council on Thursday the 21st of July 2011.
Preliminaries
The front doors of the Guildhall were open when I arrived and it was possible to walk straight in. This is a [...]
At about 08:10 on the morning of Friday the 13th of May 2011 I went on the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire breakfast show to respond to the Cambridgeshire Police Chief Constable’s plans to restructure the force. (In a way only a man in uniform could, the Chief Constable has dubbed his plans “Operation Redesign”).
The police [...]
I observed a meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership on the 11th of March 2011. The group sets the city wide policing priorities and holds the police to account for their performance against the priorities set. At the partnership’s February meeting I complained that it had taken the key decision of selecting the priorities [...]
Cambridge City Councillors in the Council Chamber During a Suspension in the 17th February 2011 Full Council Meeting.
I observed Cambridge City Council’s full council meeting on Thursday the 17th of February. I have written a previous article about disruption at the meeting.
The main item on the agenda was the approval of the council’s [...]
I observed Cambridgeshire County Council’s Full Council on the 7th of December 2010.
The meeting was, as I had predicted from the sparse agenda, rather devoid of substantive content. The 450 jobs to go and £161 million cuts at the council which were reported in the media two days after the meeting were not [...]
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.
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