View of Jesus Green, Cambridge.
Cambridge City Council has recently run a consultation on its Draft Open Space and Recreation Strategy.
What is this Strategy Document For?
If approved the strategy would become key part of the city council’s planning policy; which means it would become a document which councillors making planning decisions will have to have [...]
View of Jesus Green including Cantrill’s Mushrooms and the Jesus Lock Bridge.
At Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee on the 25th of August 2011 I used the open forum section to ask if the proposed joint bid to the national lottery from the council and the Jesus Green association for works on Jesus Green [...]
New lottery bid plans for Jesus Green (Large)
Proposals for a new lottery bid for improvements to Jesus Green were presented to a Special General Meeting of the Jesus Green Association on the 28th of July 2011.
Key points:
The new bid is a joint bid by the City Council and the Jesus Green Association
The new bid [...]
Notice taped to Jesus Green noticeboard - photo taken before it got very wet.
The Jesus Green Association is holding a special general meeting on Wednesday the 27th of July at 1930 in Wesley Methodist Church. Outline proposals for a new bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund are to be discussed.
The meeting has been [...]
Councillors deemed this path the worst on Jesus Green and earmarked £30K for work on it.
I observed Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee on Tuesday the 21st of June 2011.
Councillors decided to provisionally allocate around £30,000 to what their officers described as the worst path on Jesus Green - the one from (not under) [...]
Ian Nimmo-Smith as Mayor of Cambridge (Source)
I observed the latter part of Cambridge City Council’s Full Council meeting on the 26th of May 2011. This was the “annual meeting”, the first of the civic year, and the first for the newly elected councillors. I arrived well after the ceremonial fancy dress session and after [...]
This Wedge of Grass Contributes to the Sense of Wide Open Space on Midsummer Common.
While Cambridge City Council were considering their recent tree works on Midsummer Common one of the suggestions I made was that the sense of large open space in the centre of the city ought be kept. I argued against encroaching too [...]
Top: Proposals for tree works on Midsummer Common currently being consulted on. Bottom: Proposals taken to the West Central Area Committee on 23 September and approved with exception of the lowest four trees.
On Friday the 19th of November notices appeared on Jesus Green and Midsummer common announcing a consultation, under the city council’s tree protocol, [...]
On the 28th of October 2010 I attended Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee.
Key points:
Councillors approved a number of new projects, including a portable sandpit for beach volleyball, to be investigated by council officers with a view to spending S.106 development taxes on them. I think spending these taxes, which are a [...]
Current plans include planting three black poplars in the middle of the grass a hundred metres or so into the common from the point this photo was taken. I think this wedge of open grass should be left as it multiplies the sense of space.
I spoke at the special meeting of the West Central Area [...]
Councillor Armstrong, Councillor Blair, Councillor Boyce, Councillor Levy, Councillor Liddle, Councillor McGovern, Councillor Nimmo-Smith, Councillor Pitt, Councillor Todd-Jones, Councillor Upstone, Councillor Ward, Councillor Benstead, Councillor Blencowe, Councillor Bradnack, Councillor Ellis-Miller, Councillor Hart, Councillor Herbert, Councillor Howell, Councillor Lynn, Councillor Shah, Councillor Smart, Councillor Walker, Councillor Wright, Councillor AlBander, Councillor Baker, Councillor Blackhurst, Councillor Dryden, Councillor McPherson, Councillor Newbold, Councillor Sanders, Councillor Stuart, Councillor Taylor, Councillor Bick, Councillor Cantrill, Councillor Dixon, Councillor Hipkin, Councillor Kightley, Councillor Reid, Councillor Rosenstiel, Councillor Smith, Councillor Zmura.
Jesus Green, Midsummer Common, New Square, Christ's Pieces, Parker's Piece, Coldham's Common, Romsey Rec, Coleridge Rec, Cherry Hinton Rec.