I have submitted the following message to the council’s democratic services email address, copying Councillor Tim Bick:
1. If a suitably less restrictive filming policy is adopted during the Thursday 19th April 2012 full council meeting I would like to film/photograph the council meeting from the point the new policy is adopted. I’d like [...]
Cambridge City Council’s Civic Affairs Committee on the 21st of March 2012 is to review the city council’s currently highly restrictive policy on filming, recording and photographing council meetings.
The report to the meeting contains the following statement:
Since the Committee approved the amendments to the audio/visual recording protocol in February 2011, there have been no [...]
Cambridge City Council Draft Accounts 2010-11
I have written to Cambridge City Council to make an appointment to “inspect the accounts”:
Dear Cambridge City Council,
I would like to make an appointment to visit the council offices and inspect the accounts as I am entitled to do during the open period which is currently running.
I would [...]
Image from Video from Cambridge City Council North Area Committee September 2010
On Tuesday the 23rd of November 2010 I was sent a copy of a report into Cambridge City Council’s Protocol on Filming Committee meetings which has been produced by the council’s Independent Complaints Investigator Corinne Hibbert. The report was the outcome of an [...]
Cambridge City Council has banned all videoing, photography, and recording of its meetings just a few weeks after it allowed the practice for the first time. The first deliberations of the council ever to have been recorded on film were at a planning committee meeting on the 22nd of September 2010, by the 21st [...]
Image: Houses of Parliament, London, Monet c.1904
Since I wrote my last article on Cambridge MP Julian Huppert’s Parliamentry voting record, which I published on the 9th of September 2010, there have been 44 more votes in the House of Commons.
On the day I published that previous article Mr Huppert rebelled against the coalition [...]
Lunch menu from the Cambridgeshire County Council meeting on the 19th of October 2010. (I did not have permission to photograph the meeting itsself)
On the 19th of October 2010 my local County Councillor, Rupert Moss-Eccardt, invited me to observe a full meeting of Cambridgeshire County Council from the floor of the chamber and to join [...]
On the 22nd of September 2010 I observed, and filmed, Cambridge City Council’s planning committee as they discussed the proposed felling of a healthy western red cedar tree and two holly trees in Holy Trinity Churchyard in the City Centre. This was the first City Council deliberation ever to have been filmed, the council [...]
This image of the Cambridge City’s June 2010 Full Council was
Anyone wanting find out what an item of spending published by Bedford Council refers to is invited to contact the council to find out as they don’t proactively publish descriptions.
On Friday the 10th of September 2010 Data.gov.uk’s Local Data Panel published their draft guidance for Local Authorities on how to comply with the Prime [...]