Around 150 people attended a public event for Cambridge city residents to discuss the potential for tall buildings in the city. .
On the 3rd of March I attended a series of talks, and a workshop, discussing tall buildings in Cambridge. Kati Preston, the wife of Cambridge City Council’s Historical Environment Manager, John Preston, explained [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
More than 50 People Joined a Walk Around Marshall Airport in Cambridge on the 15th of November to Express Support for the Company Continuing to Fly from the Airport.
On Sunday the 15th of November I joined a group of over fifty people who walked around Marshall Airport in Cambridge to show support for the company [...]
Currently Cambridge City Council currently hands over a large chunk of the rent income it gets from the city’s council housing to the Government; supposedly to support the provision of social housing in other cities. In 2008/9 out of £27.1m of rent collected £11.9m was taken by the Government for supposedly for redistribution elsewhere. [...]
In white paper to be published next week the UK Government is reportedly going to announce new plans to regulate the banking sector. A key feature will be increasing the amount of capital banks are required to hold, in particular the minimum amount of liquid capital banks are required to hold will be increased. [...]
A new house being built at Bulstrode Gardens in Cambridge. Bulstrode Gardens is a quiet dead-end private road with loose gravel pavements and no street lights. It is situated off Madingley Road near Churchill College in Cambridge.
At Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee on the 18th of June 2009 city councillors from Castle, Market [...]
Friday, February 27, 2009
At full Cambridge City Council meetings councillors are able to ask questions to executive councillors; these have to be submitted in writing the day before the meeting. A ballot is held to determine the order of questions and as many as can be dealt with in thirty minutes are answered. Any questions remaining beyond [...]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Section 5.7 of a “Mapping Poverty Report ” presented to Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee on Monday the 17th of November 2008 states:
The Rent Service determines Broad Rental Market Areas and sets Local Housing Allowances for them. Approximately 800 claimants could be affected by changes brought about by a Rent Service [...]