View of Jesus Green, Cambridge.
Cambridge City Council has recently run a consultation on its Draft Open Space and Recreation Strategy.
What is this Strategy Document For?
If approved the strategy would become key part of the city council’s planning policy; which means it would become a document which councillors making planning decisions will have to have [...]
View of Jesus Green including Cantrill’s Mushrooms and the Jesus Lock Bridge.
At Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee on the 25th of August 2011 I used the open forum section to ask if the proposed joint bid to the national lottery from the council and the Jesus Green association for works on Jesus Green [...]
New lottery bid plans for Jesus Green (Large)
Proposals for a new lottery bid for improvements to Jesus Green were presented to a Special General Meeting of the Jesus Green Association on the 28th of July 2011.
Key points:
The new bid is a joint bid by the City Council and the Jesus Green Association
The new bid [...]
Notice taped to Jesus Green noticeboard - photo taken before it got very wet.
The Jesus Green Association is holding a special general meeting on Wednesday the 27th of July at 1930 in Wesley Methodist Church. Outline proposals for a new bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund are to be discussed.
The meeting has been [...]
Councillors deemed this path the worst on Jesus Green and earmarked £30K for work on it.
I observed Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee on Tuesday the 21st of June 2011.
Councillors decided to provisionally allocate around £30,000 to what their officers described as the worst path on Jesus Green - the one from (not under) [...]
“Cheeky Sods” in the Big Green Egg BBQ Bus on Midsummer Common
Due to inconsiderate people damaging the grass BBQs and fires have become a contentious issue on Jesus Green and Midsummer Common in recent years. There have also been many problems with vehicles churning up the grass and damaging the edges of paths on both [...]
Top: Proposals for tree works on Midsummer Common currently being consulted on. Bottom: Proposals taken to the West Central Area Committee on 23 September and approved with exception of the lowest four trees.
On Friday the 19th of November notices appeared on Jesus Green and Midsummer common announcing a consultation, under the city council’s tree protocol, [...]
On the 28th of October 2010 I attended Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee.
Key points:
Councillors approved a number of new projects, including a portable sandpit for beach volleyball, to be investigated by council officers with a view to spending S.106 development taxes on them. I think spending these taxes, which are a [...]
On the 23rd of September 2010 I attended a special meeting of the West Central Area committee which discussed proposed tree works on Jesus Green and Midsummer Common.
After three and a half hours of officer presentations and public input the councillors took just a few moments to approve the proposals which were put to [...]
Plane Tree Avenue, Jesus Green, Cambridge.
On Thursday the 1st of July 2010 I attended a seminar and workshop on new tree planting for Jesus Green and Midsummer Common. The fact the meeting had been scheduled was only revealed in public following a question I asked at the West Central Area committee on the 24th [...]