Cllr Cantrill’s Windmill and Gate on Midsummer Common
The ongoing saga of disputes over parking and vehicular access to Midsummer Common in Cambridge took a bizarre turn at the West Central Area Committee on the 5th of January 2012.
Cllr Rodrick Cantrill announced the council’s intention to prosecute two buildings on the common: the Fort St. [...]
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 [...]
Cambridge City Council to Spend £25K Painting 100m of These Railings
Councillors at Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee are struggling to spend their Environmental Improvements budget. At at meeting of the committee on the 23rd of June councillors said they didn’t have enough ideas for how to spend their spare budget.
One item councillors approved [...]
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) [...]
Remote Control Horse at the 2011 Strawberry Fair
Cambridge’s establishment, including the city council, the Executive Councillor for Arts and Recreation Rodrick Cantrill, and the police have all declared the 2011 Strawberry Fair an unequivocal success and this line appears to have been unquestioningly parroted by the city’s press.
I agree that there were many positive aspects [...]
“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 [...]
Friends of Midsummer Common AGM 2011. Mr Baxter (middle) in the chair.
On Wednesday the 16th of March 2011 I attended the 4th Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Midsummer Common.
Key Points:
The manager of the Fort St. George Public House attended and argued he, and his staff ought be allowed to continue [...]
This Wedge of Grass Contributes to the Sense of Wide Open Space on Midsummer Common.
While Cambridge City Council were considering their recent tree works on Midsummer Common one of the suggestions I made was that the sense of large open space in the centre of the city ought be kept. I argued against encroaching too [...]
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 [...]