Richard Taylor

Its not often that one comes home from a Cambridge City Council North Area Committee to find a continuation of the same discussion on Newsnight. Prior to the meeting while councillors were waiting for a planning officer to turn up the leader of the council was showing his colleagues a print-out of a “league table” [...]

At Cambridge City Council’s August 2008 North Area Committee Meeting Cllr Mike Todd Jones distributed the following statement which I am publicising as it will probably not be included in the minutes and is not currently available online:
I have decided not to make decisions on planning matters at Area Committees until sufficiently trained in [...]

I sent the below email to my local councillors in advance of Cambridge City Council’s August 2008 North Area Committee meeting.
Councillors Mike Todd-Jones, Alan Levy, Tim Ward and Rupert Moss-Eccardt,
I am making some suggestions in advance of this evening’s North Area Committee meeting on the subjects of:

Policing
Jesus Green Works and New Bridge
Penny Ferry

Policing.
*I would suggest [...]

I have just returned from a police consultative meeting at the Meadows Community Centre, the meeting was publicised as being to discuss Anti-Social Behaviour in the ward of Arbury. No council officers attended, apparently due to them being on strike, although the national council worker’s strike doesn’t start until tomorrow. About 14 members [...]

I met with John Fuller, Community Engagement Officer, Cambridgeshire Police and Paul Griffin Strategy Officer (Community Safety) of Cambridge City Council at the Council offices on Regent Street in Cambridge this afternoon.
This meeting was idea of the chair of North Area Committee meeting, who decided to ask me to attend it as a response (punishment? [...]