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Cambridge Congestion Charge – The Liberal Democrat View as of Thursday 19th March
On Thursday the 19th of March 2009 I watched the leader of the City Council Ian Nimmo-Smith and the Executive Councillor for Climate Change and Growth Sian Read give evidence to the Cambridgeshire Transport Commission. Notable Comments The Liberal Democrat councillors put forward their policy to extend a charge to include the park and ride […]
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Residents’ and Retailers’ Advocates on the Cambridge City Council City Centre Management Partnership
I am writing from Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee. Using the opportunity for members of the public to ask questions at council meetings I asked who had been appointed to the residents’ representative and independent retailer representative on the new city centre management partnership – “Love Cambridge”. I noted the published timetable […]
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Future Management of Cambridge’s Parks and Green Spaces
Residents of Garlic Row Enjoying Stourbridge Common Cambridge City Council held a Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 12th of March 2009. One of the items on the agenda was a draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy for the City. I spoke on this item to comment on the fact that no specific mention of […]
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Cambridge City Council Parks and Open Spaces Strategy Omits Trees
Cambridge City Council held a Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 12th of March 2009. I used the opportunity for members of the public to speak at council meetings to ask why the draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy being put to the committee didn’t mention the trees on the parks and open spaces. I […]
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More Than 665 Trees Felled In Cambridge Last Year
At Cambridge City Council’s Full Council meeting on February 26th 2009 Labour opposition Councillor Lucy Walker received an answer to a written question in which she had asked: Where and how may trees have been felled in the city during the last year, and where are more planned to be felled? I do not think […]
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Questions to the Cambridge City Council Executive – February 2009
At full Cambridge City Council meetings councillors are able to ask questions to executive councillors; these have to be submitted in writing the day before the meeting. A ballot is held to determine the order of questions and as many as can be dealt with in thirty minutes are answered. Any questions remaining beyond that […]
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Ambulance Obstructing Councillor to Step Down
A member of the Liberal Democrats in Cambridge has tonight told me that Cllr Colin Rosenstiel is to stand down from his position as a City Councillor. This follows the finding of a city council hearing panel which concluded that Councillor Rosenstiel failed to comply with two provisions of the Council’s Code of Conduct for […]
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Friends of Midsummer Common 2009 AGM
On Tuesday the 24th of February 2009 I attended the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Midsummer Common. About eighty people were present, including city councillors Bick and Blair. A number of council officers attended: Debbie Kaye, Cambridge City Council’s Active Communities Manager, Green Space Officer Sarah Tovell and Green Space Manager Alistair Wilson. […]
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Application to Join the Love Cambridge Board
Following encouragement from a number of sources, including the Park Street residents’ association, and considering the point of view that the more people who apply the stronger the position of the individual eventually appointed I have submitted an application for the position of residents’ director on the Cambridge City Centre Management Partnership (Love Cambridge). Dear […]
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Cambridge University Student Takes Police Bait Bike from City Centre
Update 6 November 2014: “This article is not related to the Scientist Dr Andrew Lewis who matriculated at St Catharines in 2004” Cambridge University student, Andrew “Lewi” Lewis, of St. Catherine’s College has today posted an account on the internet about what happened when he took a cycle, which he now believes to be a […]