North Cambridge Neighbourhood Profile September 2011
I observed the setting of the North Cambridge police priorities on the 22nd of September 2011.
The bail hostel at 222 Victoria Road and the traveller site on Fen Road were identified as the root sources of criminality in the area and the police were asked to focus their [...]
Management of the 222 Victoria Road Hostel at the 12th October 2011 Triangle Meeting.
On Wednesday the 12th of October 2011 I attended a “triangle” meeting between the management of the hostel at 222 Victoria Road, the police and local residents.
Key points:
There are 72 beds at the hostel. About 30 people have been evicted [...]
Histon Road, Cambridge.
On the 22nd of September 2011 Cambridge’s North Area committee discussed prostitution on Histon Road in Cambridge. Sgt. Wragg of Cambridgeshire Police said the problem was small, involving only a handful of girls, but was exaggerated by sensationalist reporting in the local press. He said this reporting was having the effect of [...]
The Council is Proposing to Cut Along The Dotted Line
On Friday the 4th of February Cambridge City Council secretly began a consultation with councillors on their latest proposals to carry out work to the London Plane Trees on Alexandra Gardens along Carlyle Road.
Councillors have been given until Friday the 11th of February to make [...]
Surveyors Working at 13 Holland Street Cambridge on the 28th of September 2010.
Cambridge City Council is proposing to fell, or destructively prune, up to five of the London plane trees in Alexandra Gardens which run along Carlyle Road. The council says it has been asked to do this work because the trees are causing [...]
The Akeman Street - Stretten Avenue junction. There are bare patches and broken curbs, but £17,750 appears a huge amount to spruce it up.
At Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee on the 10th of June 2010 councillors approved the spending of an astonishing £17,750 on plants, and a few new curbs, for Akeman Street in [...]
This scooter was being ridden dangerously through Arbury today.
Earlier today a scooter screamed past me as I was cycling home. A older teen was driving and an apparently younger boy, without a helmet, was clinging onto the back. The passenger was highly animated and shouting. As the bike tore down Carlton Way; not [...]
Illustrative design of potential mooring bollards; Cambridge City Council is currently consulting on if these should be installed along the riverbank on Midsummer Common, Jesus Green and Stourbridge Common.
Cambridge City Council is currently running a consultation on mooring on the River Cam. A River Frontage Management Questionnaire is available as a Microsoft [...]
All elected representatives in West/Central Cambridge want a street-light under this archway, yet the county council refuse to fund the electricity.
Four of of the six Liberal Democrats who are seeking to be the Lib Dem candidate for Cambridge in the forthcoming general election took part, as councillors, in the West / Central Area committee [...]
There are currently patches of bare soil outside the shops in Akeman Street, Arbury.
At the North Area Committee on the 12th of November 2009 Cambridge City Councillors agreed to spend an incredible £4,750 on replacing plants on a tiny plot of land in-front of the shops on Akeman Street.
Councillors were told that [...]