Liberal Democrat Run Cambridge City Council Is Proposing to Fell Two of the Four Trees Outside Waitrose on Fitzroy Street
Cambridge City Council are proposing to fell two of the four trees outside Waitrose on Fitzroy Street in Cambridge.
City Council document describing the proposal and the reasoning for it. - PDF
A consultation was run. [...]
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) [...]
Ian Nimmo-Smith as Mayor of Cambridge (Source)
I observed the latter part of Cambridge City Council’s Full Council meeting on the 26th of May 2011. This was the “annual meeting”, the first of the civic year, and the first for the newly elected councillors. I arrived well after the ceremonial fancy dress session and after [...]
There is a proposal to reduce the yew trees to the right of the Garret Hostel Lane path to 4m high this winter.
Last week, in response to a Freedom of Information request to Clare College, the papers for meetings of the Cambridge Backs Committee since 2007 were released.
Background to the Backs Committee
The [...]
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 [...]
The currently tree-lined Carlyle Road would be changed dramatically if the foliage were to be lost.
On the evening of the 28th of February 2011 I attended a public meeting held by Cambridge City Council to discuss the council’s proposals to remove all the foliage from three trees on Alexandra Gardens bordering Caryle Road. The actions [...]
Liberal Democrats running Cambridge City Council are proposing removing the foliage from three of these trees following a claim from 13 Holland Street that they are causing damage. ”
The Liberal Democrat run Cambridge City Council is proposing removing all the foliage from three century old London plane trees on Alexandra Gardens following a [...]
The Council is Proposing to Cut Along The Dotted Line
On Friday the 4th of February Cambridge City Council secretly began a consultation with councillors on their latest proposals to carry out work to the London Plane Trees on Alexandra Gardens along Carlyle Road.
Councillors have been given until Friday the 11th of February to make [...]
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, [...]