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Potholes? We’ve got them too. But where does the buck stop?
The potholes in the roads are very visible symptoms of a much greater set of problems whose roots are in Westminster. Is there a local solution given the huge rise in heavy construction traffic associated with Cambridge’s rapid growth? The Cambridgeshire context is the £73million the county council allocated for highways maintenance funding My photo…
Is there a solution to the Cambridge planning powers issues?
The Cambridge Growth Company’s consultation sets out the powers it seeks to acquire from local government in Cambridgeshire – and councillors are not happy. Is there a workaround? Possibly. But it might require some innovations in structures and lines of accountability. BBC Cambridgeshire quoted some councillors who described the move as a power grab. Above…
Regional Planning returns – but it’s still a big messy picture
You’ll be delighted to know that theres ***another consultation*** – this one on strategic planning that was scrapped by Eric Pickles’ pen back in 2010, a few months after the East of England spent the best part of a decade putting the old East of England Regional Plan together. Such is the life of civil…
The Cambridge Town Owl 