Plane Tree Avenue, Jesus Green, Cambridge.
On Thursday the 1st of July 2010 I attended a seminar and workshop on new tree planting for Jesus Green and Midsummer Common. The fact the meeting had been scheduled was only revealed in public following a question I asked at the West Central Area committee on the 24th [...]
June 2010 North Area Committee.
On Thursday the 10th of June 2010 I attended Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee. The meeting started at 18.30 to consider planning applications but the main agenda was not scheduled to begin until 19.30. When I arrived at just before 19.30 councillors were still debating the first of three planning [...]
Cambridge City Council has felled many trees from Midsummer Common; significant funds have been allocated for replacements.
During the “open forum” of the 24th of June 2010 West Central Area committee where members of the public are able to question councillors I asked:
Is there a date yet for the proposed meeting to discuss new tree planting [...]
Midsummer Common - Cambridge
On the 17th of March 2010 I and about thirty others attended an annual general meeting of the Friends of Midsummer Common. This was a meeting, open to all, which had been advertised on the common.
Interesting Points
Council officer Alistair Wilson reported that the Horse Chestnuts on Victoria avenue have only a year [...]
Owlstone Road, Newnham.
Liberal Democrats ruling Cambridge City Council appear hell-bent on making the city an impractical and expensive place to live and do business in. Expanding the areas of the city which are covered by conservation areas is one of the ways in which decisions made by the local council have a damaging effect [...]
Plane Tree Avenue, Jesus Green, Cambridge
Key Points
There is a current planning application to give the SkatePark permanent planning permission; it currently only has temporary permission,. It is unclear if the council’s proposals to expand the park would need a further application.
Councillors have been dissuaded from tarmacing over more of the green [...]
Repairing the path under the avenue of plane trees on Jesus Green is at last high up the city council’s list of priorities.
On Thursday the 3rd of December 2009 I attended the Jesus Green Association’s Annual General Meeting. This was a public meeting, open to all, which had been advertised by email, on posters [...]
This year a large number of trees have been felled by the City Council in Cambridge. There are no long term plans for tree planting on the city’s green spaces.
On the evening of the first of October I turned up at Parkside Pools for a City Council public meeting to discuss the tree strategy [...]
Drastic crown reduction has taken place at one end of a previously magnificent line of trees between Templemore Close and Holbrook Road.
Earlier today someone living near Glebe Road in Cambridge phoned me up to talk about tree works being carried out at the back of Templemore Close. Templemore Close is a small cul-de-sac of infill [...]
Cambridge City Council tree officer Kenny McGregor explains why he thinks a tree ought be felled. Cllr Julie Smith, who will decide the tree’s fate, looks on.
On Thursday the 3rd of September I attended a public walk-round of Lammas Land with, Kenny McGregor, one of Cambridge City Council’s tree officers. Cllr Julie Smith, the Executive [...]