I met with John Fuller, Community Engagement Officer, Cambridgeshire Police and Paul Griffin Strategy Officer (Community Safety) of Cambridge City Council at the Council offices on Regent Street in Cambridge this afternoon.
This meeting was idea of the chair of North Area Committee meeting, who decided to ask me to attend it as a response (punishment? […]
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Improving the Mechanism for Setting Police Priorities in Cambridge - Click for Full Article
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Penny Ferry - June 2008 - Click for Full Article
Friday, June 20, 2008
Cllr Liddle,
In your absence (reported as being due to a collapsed ceiling in your front room) at yesterday’s North Area Committee you were appointed as to “champion” the environmental improvement scheme for the car park, hailing way and green area at Penny Ferry, Chesterton.
I think this scheme has enormous potential to rejuvenate this area of […]
June 2008 North Area Committee - Cambridge - Click for Full Article
Thursday, June 19, 2008
I attended the 19th June 2008 North Area Committee meeting tonight.
I think the interesting decisions made were:
1. To demand from officers a better minuting of the element of the previous meeting where police priorities were set. `
2. To set a fixed time 19.30 for the policing agenda item at the next meeting, which I believe […]
Minutes of the East Chesterton ASB Meeting - Click for Full Article
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Following a public meeting with the police on Anti-Social behaviour in East Chesterton, Cambridge on the 2nd of April 2008 I requested a copy of the minutes from the council’s ASB section - they invited attendees to do this at the meeting.
Two months after my original request, and following a number of emails to chase […]
Policing - Stop and Account, Honour Crime and Local Priorities - Click for Full Article
Monday, June 16, 2008
I decided to write to Kevin Wilkins, County Councillor (£6840/Year), David Howarth MP Staff member (Another job paid for by taxpayers) and Member of the Police Authority (£7631/Year), as he told me on April the 20th he would look into the operation of Stop and Account in Cambridge, I have received a response from […]
In Advance of June’s North Area Committee - Click for Full Article
Thursday, June 12, 2008
In advance of the upcoming Cambridge City Council North Area Committee meeting on the 19th of June 2008 I have written to some local councillors to make some observations.
In summary : The meeting papers are appalling - the minutes of the previous meeting omit the local policing priorities which were agreed by the committee. It […]
New pedestrian maps for Cambridge city centre - Click for Full Article
Thursday, May 22, 2008
My comments on the proposed new pedestrian maps for central Cambridge (http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/content/arts-and-entertainment/finding-your-way.en) :
0. If there are to be any distances on the signs they should be in miles, (or minutes walk), and certainly not kilometers or meters.
1. Which, if any, existing maps and signs are being removed? I note a node is planned for […]
Abbey Road - Riverside - Promenade - Cambridge - Click for Full Article
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Plans for a proposed closing of the junction of Abbey Road and Riverside to traffic, and the narrowing of Riverside and the construction of a pedestrian promenade were displayed in the window of the Renault Garage on Newmarket Road earlier this week.
I have looked on the Cambridge City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council websites for […]
Cambridge Matters - Distribution on Election Day - Click for Full Article
Thursday, May 1, 2008
To: Elections @ cambridge dot gov dot uk, copied to the local opposition on the City Council.
I wasn’t very impressed to have the City Council Newsletter - “Cambridge Matters” delivered by hand though my door on the morning of election day.
It’s full of charts and articles trying to show how great the current council is.
It […]
Arbury Election Candidates 2008 - Click for Full Article
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Shapour Meftah, conservative candidate for Arbury at the City Council Elections posted a leaflet to my house today, and as he was still on the street by the time I’d read it I went out to ask him some questions. I started with asking why he wants to scrap the “expensive area committee meetings”, […]