Illustrative design of potential mooring bollards; Cambridge City Council is currently consulting on if these should be installed along the riverbank on Midsummer Common, Jesus Green and Stourbridge Common.
Cambridge City Council is currently running a consultation on mooring on the River Cam. A River Frontage Management Questionnaire is available as a Microsoft [...]
Plane Tree Avenue, Jesus Green, Cambridge
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There is a current planning application to give the SkatePark permanent planning permission; it currently only has temporary permission,. It is unclear if the council’s proposals to expand the park would need a further application.
Councillors have been dissuaded from tarmacing over more of the green [...]
The area of the playground on Jesus Green which is intended for younger children is rather desolate as old equipment has been removed. The city council may not improve matters before spring 2011.
The play-area for younger children on Jesus Green is rather desolate at the moment as a number of pieces of play equipment [...]
Repairing the path under the avenue of plane trees on Jesus Green is at last high up the city council’s list of priorities.
On Thursday the 3rd of December 2009 I attended the Jesus Green Association’s Annual General Meeting. This was a public meeting, open to all, which had been advertised by email, on posters [...]
Substantial plans for felling, transplanting and planting trees on Midsummer Common, Jesus Green and New Square were taken to Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee on the 30th of April 2009.
The plans involved:
Playing chess with the trees on Jesus Green, moving them into straight lines.
The felling of healthy trees on New Square [...]
Following the rejection by the Heritage Lottery Fund of Cambridge City Council’s bid for £4.4 million pounds worth of work on Jesus Green which would have involved the felling of fifty-nine trees a new proposal for tree works has been published. The new proposals involve felling eight trees immediately and transplanting a further twenty-eight [...]
Cambridge City Council’s bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund to do £4.4 million pounds of work on Jesus Green has been rejected by the Lottery.
This is excellent news as the bid contained plans to fell 59 trees and pave over huge swathes of grass. The trees, and the grass, are safe for now. [...]
Residents of Garlic Row Enjoying Stourbridge Common
Cambridge City Council held a Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 12th of March 2009. One of the items on the agenda was a draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy for the City.
I spoke on this item to comment on the fact that no specific mention of the [...]
On the 12th of February 2009 EDF Electricity applied to Cambridge City Council for planning permission to set up a compound on Jesus Green for them to use during work on the substation by the Glassworks gym. The proposed compound is to be located between the tennis courts and the path which runs between [...]
A number of items of proposed work on Jesus Green were taken to Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 15th of January 2009 for approval. These are all to be funded by “section 106″ money which comes from payments developers make to the city council in lieu of providing community, social [...]