Searle Street is one of many Cambridge streets where both the road and pavements have been coved by a sheet of ice for many weeks this winter..
Last night I attended the North Area Committee where the state of gritting in Cambridge was discussed.
Key Points
City Council Leader, Liberal Democrat, Ian Nimmo-Smith revealed the city and [...]
Top: Richard Normington, Daniel Zeichner. Bottom: Tony Juniper, Ian Nimmo-Smith.
On the evening of Friday the 23rd of October I attended a hustings for prospective Cambridge Parliamentary Candidates run by the Federation of Cambridge Residents Associations with the cooperation of Cambridge Past Present and Future. The event focused on the subject of planned [...]
An open meeting of the Jesus Green Association (JGA) was held on the 2nd of December 2008, the main agenda item was discussion of Cambridge City Council’s bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for £4.4 million of work on Jesus Green. The chair estimated that about one hundred people were present. The overwhelming mood [...]
This morning I went to Cambridge Guildhall to view the register of members’ interests for Cambridge City Councillors.
I was particularly interested in finding out which, if any, councillors are members of :
The Jesus Green Association
The Old Chesterton Residents Association
The Friends of Midsummer Common
I have been concerned that residents associations such as these have undue influence [...]
I attended the Strategy & Resources Scrutiny Committee, of Cambridge City Council, on Monday the 1st of September. My primary reason for attending was to speak in response to the internal review of the Council’s use of powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
The meeting was held in a large meeting room, (meeting [...]
I attended the Strategy & Resources Scrutiny Committee, of Cambridge City Council, at 17.00 on Monday the 1st of September. Members of the public can speak at these meetings if they arrange to do so beforehand. I spoke on the subject of the internal review of the Council’s use of powers under the Regulation [...]
I attended the 19th June 2008 North Area Committee meeting tonight.
I think the interesting decisions made were:
1. To demand from officers a better minuting of the element of the previous meeting where police priorities were set. `
2. To set a fixed time 19.30 for the policing agenda item at the next meeting, which I believe [...]
I spoke at on the subject of setting police priorities at Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee Meeting on the 6th of March 2008, Councillor Nimmo-Smith committed to respond. Prior to the next North Area Committee meeting on the 17th April 2008 I reminded Councillor Nimmo-Smith of his commitment but he was not [...]
I attended the North Area Committee meeting on Thursday the 17th of April in Cambridge.
Highlights
Sector Inspector Jon Hutchinson assured me after the meeting that he would ask if stop and account records collected in Cambridge could be deleted/destroyed now records of stops and accounts are no-longer made.
Councillors removed burglary as a priority for the [...]
I attended Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee meeting on the 6th of March 2008. The official minutes won’t be published for many weeks and judging by past experience they’ll miss out the interesting bits. So here’s my recollection:
Councillor Nimmo-Smith updated the meeting on his discussions with Anglia Water, The Environment Agency, South Cambridgeshire District [...]