I thought the ward map offered by Cambridge City Council was a bit lacking so produced a Google Maps version. Use the on-map controls to zoom, drag to move and click on a ward for its name :
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Rhodri James (Lib Dem Councillor for Arbury),
I have read your “Focus on Arbury” newsletter this evening within which in your section on the congestion charge you state:
“Lib Dem councillors have said they will not support the scheme unless residents pay much less than people driving into the City from outside.”
Yet you have written to me […]
I spoke on the setting of local policing priorities at Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee on the 6th of March 2008.
I said that I had attended these meetings a number of times, particularly when the police were present to make suggestions on improving policing in the area. I believed that I was participating […]
I attended Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee meeting on the 6th of March 2008. The official minutes won’t be published for many weeks and judging by past experience they’ll miss out the interesting bits. So here’s my recollection:
Councillor Nimmo-Smith updated the meeting on his discussions with Anglia Water, The Environment Agency, South Cambridgeshire District […]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
I believe the “stop and account” form used by the police isn’t working and in my view is damaging to the relationship between the public and the police.
The way the form affects the nature of an encounter between the police and a member of the public. I attended a local community meeting, (to which the […]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
To: City Councillors Downham, Levy and Armstrong and relevant council officers,
I have tonight attended a “anti-social behavior meeting for the Arbury”, at which I was able to ask the Police, who were represented by PCSO Rob Streater where the Police priorities for the North Area were set, where the Neighbourhood Panel Meeting for the North […]
Alastair Roberts (Cambridge City Council Officer),
I am writing to you as you are given as the contact for the “North Area Neighbourhood Policing” agenda item for the North Area Committee meeting held on the 20th of January.
At that meeting I witnessed the councillors voting unanimously to support, unamended, the recommendations for police priorities given at […]
Saturday, October 6, 2007
I have taken photographs from my front room of dangerous and illegal scooter / mini-moto / motorbike use on the road outside my house. Apparently someone complained about me doing this to the police, and I was interviewed aggressively for more than half an hour, and received two follow up visits from the police. On […]
Saturday, October 6, 2007
I wrote the below to Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority in October 2007.
I have not found it easy to find out about appropriate ways to raise my concerns with the police. I looked for community meetings / […]
Saturday, October 6, 2007
I wrote the below to Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority in October 2007:
In Cambridge dispersal zones are in my view used in areas they shouldn’t be. Do we really need to use new laws to deal with […]