It’s bone-grindingly frustrating trying to find accurate data on the ever-changing housing situation in and around Cambridge. On top of that, the local government structures, alongside laws that govern the property and education sectors do not allow councils to limit the activities that, without restrictions on expansion can harm the greater good of the city.Continue reading “Short term letting and Cambridge’s housing crisis”
Monthly Archives: October 2024
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – very important, have you heard of it?
Trust me to spot the thing at 20 minutes to midnight… It’s being debated by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board on 11 October 2024 at Peterborough Town Hall [You’re a city – you have a cathedral down the road from your council’s HQ!] “I didn’t know we had a health and wellbeingContinue reading “Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – very important, have you heard of it?”
Dr Andy Williams says Cambridge’s ‘overcomplex governance structures’ led to major delays in large transport projects
At the Greater Cambridge Partnership’s Board Meeting (see the papers here), Board Members voted to approve moving to the next stage for the Cambridge South East Transport project – but not without having addressed issues raised repeatedly by pro-rail/light rail campaigners first First of all my thanks to Cllr Elisa Meschini (Labour – King’s Hedges),Continue reading “Dr Andy Williams says Cambridge’s ‘overcomplex governance structures’ led to major delays in large transport projects”
The Cambridge Town Owl 