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Scrutiny of Dispersal Zone Designations in Cambridge
Councillor Bruce, I am writing to you as I believe you are the Chair of the Strategy Scrutiny Committee. Can you let me know if the Council Leader’s decision to make an area of Cambridge including Mill Road, Parker’s Piece, Christ’s Pieces, Midsummer Common, Brunswick Gardens and Riverside a designated area under Section 30 Subsections […]
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Greater Cambridge City Deal – Boozy Dinners, Lunches and Fine Dining
The Greater Cambridge City Deal is considering a programme of boozy dinners, lunches and fine dining in their efforts to attract investment to Cambridge. I’ve seen how the kind of companies we want to attract to Cambridge decide where to base their operations and the prime consideration is the presence of other companies and institutions […]
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My Response to Cambridge City Council Tree Policy Consultation
I have responded to Cambridge City Council’s consultation on its policies relating to trees in the city. Tree management in Cambridge is currently in disarray. The city is littered with tree stumps, empty tree pits, sites where trees have been removed and not replaced and saplings which have failed to become established and are broken, […]
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Visiting Cambridge City Council to Look Behind the Accounts
File containing reports from Cambridge City Council’s accounting system relating to items I had expressed an interest prior to my visit to inspect background material supporting the published accounts. On Thursday the 22nd of July 2010 I visited Cambridge City Council’s accounts office to make use of the provision in the Audit Commission Act 1998 […]
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New Square – Another Cambridge City Council Grandiose Plan Involving Felling Healthy Trees
Plans for tree felling and planting at New Square in Cambridge are on the agenda of Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee to be held on Thursday 30 April 2009 at 1915 in the University Centre off Mill Lane. The proposals include felling five healthy trees (pictured) which the council’s own experts describe as being […]
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Looking into the Folk Festival Mistakes
On the evening of Monday the 30th of March 2009 Cambridge City Council’s Civic Affairs Committee considered a report into how the council came to lose £644,951 which was not paid to the council by the company it appointed to sell Folk Festival tickets online in 2008. I have written a previous article on the […]
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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 […]