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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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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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Cambridge City Council’s £80m Reserves – An Update
Following Cambridge City Council’s October 2008 announcement which revealed it had £9m invested in Icelandic banks which it might have lost the council’s investments have been the focus of a lot of attention from councillors, the press and the public. I have attended some of the recent meetings where the situation has been discussed. I […]
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Call for More Allotments in and Around Cambridge
At the full Council meeting on the 4th of December 2008 A petition signed by 715 local residents was presented to Cambridge City Council by Dave Fox, secretary of Trumpington Allotments Society. He was asking the council to ensure the provision of allotments in the city was sufficient. Cllr Julie Smith had declared an interest […]
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Councillors Approve CB1 Outline Plans
Following a 09.30 start it was just before 19.00 when the Cambridge City Council planning committee meeting considering the outline plans for the “CB1” station area redevelopment finally concluded with a vote. Six Liberal Democrat councillors (Al Bander, Baker, Blair, Dixon, Holness, and Reid) voted in favour of accepting the officers’ recommendation to approve the […]
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Redevelopment of the Cambridge Station Area
An outline planning application for the redevelopment of the Cambridge Station Area is going before a planning committee on Wednesday 15th of October 2008, it is due to start at 0930 in the college generally known as Newhall and is expected to last all day. The Developer’s Website on the Project Agenda for the Planning […]
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Mill Road Tesco – Planning Inquiry
Last week I spent a couple of afternoons sitting in on the planning inquiry hearing the appeal against Cambridge city councillors’ decision to refuse an application by Tesco to extend a building on Mill Road in which they are planning to run a Tesco Express store. I strongly oppose centrally appointed planning inspectors interfering with […]
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West Central Area Committee – September 2008
I attended the West Central Area Committee on Thursday 18th of September, primarily to comment on a bid to the Lottery which the council is submitting to part-fund work on Jesus Green. The meeting was chaired by Cllr Rod Cantrill as the usual chair, Simon Kightley was absent. Cllr Cantrill decided to alter the running […]
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September 2008 Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee Cambridge
I attended the Strategy & Resources Scrutiny Committee, of Cambridge City Council, on Monday the 1st of September. My primary reason for attending was to speak in response to the internal review of the Council’s use of powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). The meeting was held in a large meeting room, […]
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Arbury Park North Edge Design Brief
I attended a presentation / question and answer session this evening on the subject of a document entitled the “Arbury Park North Edge Design Brief”. It was reported the need for this document apparently has arisen as: There is an expectation among council officers that current planning applications in the north area of the Arbury […]