Liberal Democrat Run Cambridge City Council Is Proposing to Fell Two of the Four Trees Outside Waitrose on Fitzroy Street
Cambridge City Council are proposing to fell two of the four trees outside Waitrose on Fitzroy Street in Cambridge.
City Council document describing the proposal and the reasoning for it. - PDF
A consultation was run. [...]
Sgt Wragg of the police speaking at the September 2010 North Area Committee in Cambridge
At the Monday the 10th of October 2011 meeting of Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Committee councillors considered a report on Interim Review of Area Working and the North Area Pilot. This was a report on the impact of [...]
Cambridge Taxi
Cambridge City Council is currently running a consultation on how it licences taxis and taxi drivers in the city.
The council has a webpage on the consultation which includes the new draft policy and guidance as well as a set of questions and proposals for amendments. Responses can be sent in by [...]
CPPF Localism and Planning Event
On the evening on the 14th of July 2011 I attended an event run by Cambridge Past Present and Future on localism and planning.
The focus was on the Localism Bill.
The key points I took away were:
The “Neighbourhood planning” provisions in the Localism Bill are democratic in relation to areas [...]
CBbid Logo.
In February 2010 I wrote about Cambridge’s City Centre management organisation, Love Cambridge, considering raising taxes. On Friday the 15th of July 2011 Love Cambridge took some more steps towards levying a tax by sending out a survey to business rate payers in the city, asking what they’d like to see money raised [...]
The Guest Road area is to see the largest increase in residents parking permit charges
I have just returned from observing a meeting of Cambridgeshire County Council’s cabinet where the decision was taken to increase Cambridge’s on street parking charges. The cabinet approved raising the annual charge for residents parking permits from around £40-50 to £70-£80. [...]
Cambridge City Council has published a draft of its annual complaints report in advance of a meeting of the council’s standards committee on Wednesday the 15th of June.
I think the report fails to fulfil its role of enabling councillors to check the council’s complaints system is working. The key problem is that the definition of [...]
Remote Control Horse at the 2011 Strawberry Fair
Cambridge’s establishment, including the city council, the Executive Councillor for Arts and Recreation Rodrick Cantrill, and the police have all declared the 2011 Strawberry Fair an unequivocal success and this line appears to have been unquestioningly parroted by the city’s press.
I agree that there were many positive aspects [...]
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 [...]
There is a proposal to reduce the yew trees to the right of the Garret Hostel Lane path to 4m high this winter.
Last week, in response to a Freedom of Information request to Clare College, the papers for meetings of the Cambridge Backs Committee since 2007 were released.
Background to the Backs Committee
The [...]