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Cambridge City Council Lacks Imagination on Cycle Parking
Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee on the 30th of April 2009 received a report from officers on progress towards installing cycle parking at the King Street – Manor Street junction. Officers reported that they are working towards providing six wall mounted loops on the wall to which bikes can be locked. The committee were […]
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Proposed Felling, Planting and Transplanting of Trees on Jesus Green
Following the rejection by the Heritage Lottery Fund of Cambridge City Council’s bid for £4.4 million pounds worth of work on Jesus Green which would have involved the felling of fifty-nine trees a new proposal for tree works has been published. The new proposals involve felling eight trees immediately and transplanting a further twenty-eight (six […]
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Cambridge City Council to Debate Tree Felling Policy
Trees are set to be a major item of discussion at Cambridge City Council’s Full Council meeting later today (Thursday 23rd April 2009). Liberal Democrat ruled Cambridge City Council has recently felled hundreds of trees in the city. Many have been felled for spurious reasons ranging from increasing biodiversity by allowing more light into watercourses, […]
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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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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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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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Trees to be Felled for Temporary Car Park on Jesus Green
On the 12th of February 2009 EDF Electricity applied to Cambridge City Council for planning permission to set up a compound on Jesus Green for them to use during work on the substation by the Glassworks gym. The proposed compound is to be located between the tennis courts and the path which runs between Portugal […]
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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 City Councillor Colin Rosenstiel Accused of Obstructing Ambulance on Jesus Green
A complaint against Cambridge City Councillor Colin Rosenstiel, in which it is alleged he obstructed an ambulance responding to a 999 call on Jesus Green, is to be heard by a panel of the council’s Standards Committee on the 11th of February 2009. The panel is made up of councillors Bick, McGovern, and McPherson along […]