Richard Taylor

Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee is to meet from 19.00 on December the 15th 2011.
Among the agenda items is the policing report. Councillors will hold the police to account for their performance over the past period and set the priorities for the upcoming few months.
Members of the public can use a public speaking [...]

Policing East Cambridge April 2011

I spent the evening of the 14th of April 2011 observing Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee meeting. City and county councillors were to hold the police to account for their performance against priorities they’d set previously and to set new priorities for the forthcoming period.
Key Points

Councillors set the following [...]

Burnside, Cambridge.

Councillors at Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee on the 19th of August 2010 told officers to go ahead with, and give a high priority to, installing two thousand five hundred pounds worth of toad crossings at Burnside. These crossings are to take the form of dropped curbs. Councillors appeared to make the [...]

I was able to speak to Paul Cook, Cambridgeshire’s Head of Transport Policy and Strategy during the Congestion Charge exhibition held before Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee meeting on Thursday 28th February.
I let Mr Cook, and the councillors know that I opposed the congestion charge, thought central government was blackmailing the people of [...]