Richard Taylor

Liberal Democrat Run Cambridge City Council Revving Up Chainsaws to Fell Trees on Fitzroy Street

Liberal Democrat Run Cambridge City Council Is Proposing to Fell Two of the Four Trees Outside Waitrose on Fitzroy Street Cambridge City Council are proposing to fell two of the four trees outside Waitrose on Fitzroy Street in Cambridge. City Council document describing the proposal and the reasoning for it. – PDF A consultation was […]

October 20, 2011
North Cambridge Police Priorities – September 2011

North Cambridge Neighbourhood Profile September 2011 I observed the setting of the North Cambridge police priorities on the 22nd of September 2011. The bail hostel at 222 Victoria Road and the traveller site on Fen Road were identified as the root sources of criminality in the area and the police were asked to focus their […]

October 18, 2011
Lobbying to Keep Democratically Set Police Priorities in Cambridge

Sgt Wragg of the police speaking at the September 2010 North Area Committee in Cambridge At the Monday the 10th of October 2011 meeting of Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Committee councillors considered a report on Interim Review of Area Working and the North Area Pilot. This was a report on the impact of […]

October 17, 2011
Cambridgeshire Police Blame Sensationalist Media for Prostitution on Histon Road

Histon Road, Cambridge. On the 22nd of September 2011 Cambridge’s North Area committee discussed prostitution on Histon Road in Cambridge. Sgt. Wragg of Cambridgeshire Police said the problem was small, involving only a handful of girls, but was exaggerated by sensationalist reporting in the local press. He said this reporting was having the effect of […]

September 23, 2011
Cambs Police Authority Scrutiny Committee September 2011

On the 12th of September 2011 I attended a meeting of the scrutiny committee of Cambridgeshire’s Police Authority at Cambridgeshire Police Headquarters in Huntington. I have written separate articles on two aspects of the meeting: Restorative Justice Update – My use of the public speaking slot to ask for more information about the way the […]

September 15, 2011
Update on Cambridgeshire Police Use of Restorative Justice

On Monday the 12th of September 2011 I attended a meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s Scrutiny Committee at which I used the public speaking slot to raise some concerns about the police force’s implementation of restorative justice disposals. Restorative justice disposals as used by Cambridgeshire Police involve a PCSO or constable issuing an offender with […]

September 13, 2011
Julian Huppert at the Maypole

Julian Huppert MP at the Maypole Pub On Friday evening Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert spent a couple of hours in the upstairs room of the Maypole pub fielding questions and talking to people. I think this was absolutely brilliant and it was great to see our MP openly engaging with people at a free, informal, […]

September 11, 2011
Cambridgeshire Police Expansion in use of Restorative Justice

A Cambridgeshire Police Constable in Cambridge On the 25th of August 2011 during the policing section of the West Central Area committee I took the opportunity to draw councillors’ attention to the expansion in the range of offences which Cambridgeshire Police consider can now be dealt with, outside of court, through “restorative justice”. I also […]

September 6, 2011
My Comments on Cambridge City Council’s Draft Open Space and Recreation Strategy

View of Jesus Green, Cambridge. Cambridge City Council has recently run a consultation on its Draft Open Space and Recreation Strategy. What is this Strategy Document For? If approved the strategy would become key part of the city council’s planning policy; which means it would become a document which councillors making planning decisions will have […]

September 5, 2011
New Jesus Green Lottery Bid Submitted

View of Jesus Green including Cantrill’s Mushrooms and the Jesus Lock Bridge. At Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee on the 25th of August 2011 I used the open forum section to ask if the proposed joint bid to the national lottery from the council and the Jesus Green association for works on Jesus […]

September 4, 2011