Skip to content
Home

Tag Archives: Arbury

Youths Still Riding Scooters Dangerously in Arbury - Click for Full Article

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 [...]

City Council Consulting on Its Proposal to Deface Riverbank - Click for Full Article

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 [...]

Single Streetlight Foils Four Wannabe MPs - Click for Full Article

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 [...]

Taming Guerrillas Could Save Cambridge City Council Money - Click for Full Article

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 [...]

Practical Places to Live Verses Conservation - Click for Full Article

An application to put a front dormer window in the roof of 7 Pretoria Road, and build a rear roof extension, was considered at Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee on the 27th of August 2009. The house is in the recently introduced “De Freville Avenue” conservation area. Other houses on the street [...]

Asking Questions About The Police’s Attitude to Photographers in Cambridge - Click for Full Article

Youths with an off-road motorbike look for more youths with similar vehicles on French’s Road, Arbury.

On Thursday the 20th of August I attended Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee. Part of the meeting was dedicated to allowing members of the public ask questions of the police.
PC Simon Railer gave the police [...]

Chesterton Road Zebra Crossing - Lighting Maintenance Problems - Click for Full Article

The zebra crossing on Chesterton Road between Carlyle Road and the Jesus Lock footbridge has been an accident blackspot, however following the installation of fantastic quality floodlighting and orange LED halos around the belisha beacons (Zebrite Belisha Beacons ) the number of incidents appears to have been falling. From what I can glean from the [...]

Asking the Police to Record The Costs of Crime - Click for Full Article

I am concerned Cambridgeshire Police are not recording the costs of criminal damage like this.

During Sgt. Wragg’s update on North Area policing at Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee on the 2nd of July 2009 he said he had received no suggestions on ways to improve the police’s regular reports. When he invited me to [...]

Arbury Vandals Force Playground and Path Closure - Click for Full Article

Youths with a motorbike on the playground at St. Luke’s School in April 2009. A PCSO is shown to the right of the photograph.

St Luke’s School, French’s Road, Arbury, Cambridge has posted a letter dated the 22nd of May 2009 on its gates announcing it is no-longer going to allow the public access to its [...]

Holding the Police to Account - March 2009 - Click for Full Article

On Thursday the 19th of March 2009 I attended Cambridge’s North Area committee, where councillors vote on what they believe ought to be the local policing priorities and hold the police to account for their performance in the areas they have prioritised. The police were represented by Sgt. Jason Wragg.
Using the opportunity given to [...]