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Cllr Ward Defends Sidelining Arboricultural Officers on Jesus Green Plans
Cllr Tim Ward has written a letter to the Cambridge Evening news which has been published today (13th December 2008). He is responding to Bronwyn Hipkin who recently wrote: Having read with alarm of the fate of 59 trees on Jesus Green which Cllr Smith tells us are all diseased and dangerous, I rang the […]
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Cllr Tim Ward on Cambridge City Centre Cycling Ban
A member of the public addressed Cambridge City Council’s environment scrutiny committee on the 8th of October 2013 and called for a complete ban on cycles in central Cambridge. He requested a ban on riding, and even parking, bikes in the city centre; justifying this on the grounds of the impact cyclists have on disabled […]
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Bizarre Tweets by Cllr Peter Lord of Trumpington
…I don't know about you, but fortunately many of my followers appear to be fit young women who just need a little financial assistance to get to Cambridge, but would doubtless be happy to go canvassing for you when they arrive… — Peter Lord, Esq. #FBPE (@peter_lord) 10 August 2019 Throwing myself into local community […]
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Cllr Elisa Meschini Offered an Enormous Amount of Public Money to Take Home
Playing the video will take you to Meschini’s speech On the 18th of July 2017 my Cambridgeshire County Councillor, Elisa Meschini (Labour?, King’s Hedges) spoke against proposals to increase the amount of public money councillors personally take home saying: I can’t see what this amendment will achieve other than the fact it will give us […]
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Cllr Mike Todd-Jones and his Alphabet. T Follows W. Bond Comes Before AAATaylor
Councillors in each area of Cambridge hold regular “area committee” meetings, and have done since 2003. The events contain an “open forum” for questions and statements from the public. I attended my first Cambridge Area Committee on the 30th of May 2007 after being made aware of their existence by my local councillor when he […]
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Cllr Ian Manning Threatens to Blackmail Tesco Over Contribution to Chesterton High Street Improvements
I observed Cambridge’s North Area Committee on Thursday the 3rd of July 2014. One of the items on the agenda was the consideration of various environmental improvement schemes for the area. One proposal was to improve the area in-front of the Tesco mini-supermarket on High-Street Chesterton. This is one of my local shops and I’ve […]
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Students Do Not Vote for Community Independents Says Cllr John Hipkin
Cllr John Hipkin has sent a comment on the Castle Ward election results to an email list. I thought the content of the message was surprising and ought be made available to a wider audience so I am publishing it here. I am astonished at Cllr Hipkin drawing a sharp distinction between “residents” and “students” […]
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Proposed Cambridge City Council Planning Reforms From Cllr Hipkin
Only Cambridge’s independent councillor, John Hipkin, has submitted a motion to Cambridge City Council’s full council on Thursday the 27th of February. None of the Liberal Democrat or Labour councillors, nor the Conservative, have any matter which they have thought worthy of submitting a motion to the full council on. This lack of activity is […]
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Hostile Response From Cllr Martin Curtis to My Submission to Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel
During the public participation slot at Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel on the 5th of February 2014 I sought to raise my concern that the panel were allowing the Police and Crime Commissioner to decide which of his decisions he was putting to the panel for scrutiny. I suggested this wasn’t a desirable state of […]
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Cycling on Stourbridge Common with Cllr Martin Curtis
The leader of the County Council, Cllr Martin Curtis, is to speak at the Friends of Stourbridge Common AGM on Friday the 13th of September 2013 on the subject of cycling on the common. I cycle almost daily on the common, it lies between my house and Cambridge city centre, if I’m opting for a […]