Author Archives: Cambridge Town Owl

Cambridge won’t see a penny of the £5billion in funding – but nor should it. Instead, ministers should follow up this announcement by enabling councils that have economies that generate more financial wealth to tax that wealth independently of The Treasury in order to fund the sorts of programmes that the P-in-P funding has beenContinue reading “169 Neighbourhoods across Great Britain gain from Pride in Place funding”

AKA Addenbrooke’s 3…which rest on a series of pillars outside of the control and maintenance of the CUH NHS Trust. You can find out more on Addenbrooke’s 3 here This follows on from the CBC Open Forum from June 2025 which I wrote about here The Cambridge Biomedical Campus Vision 2050 hinted at a newContinue reading “Plans for a ‘New, New Addenbrooke’s’”

The University and the City of Cambridge found out the hard way what happens when you leave it to other people to do the ‘politics’ back in the mid 2010s. Will history repeat itself? Image – Trials of Democracy, with events coming up on Sat 04 Oct and Sun 05 Oct 2025 In the middleContinue reading “Cambridge faces an existential political threat. Again.”

Some of you may have seen the clickbait-style articles doing the rounds mentioning the city. As ever, such pieces rarely involve the authors and researchers actually going to the places featured. Rather they look at data and interpret the numbers through their own biases. Former BBC Reporter Mark Williamson picked up on this Above –Continue reading “If Cambridge is the No1 retail hub in the UK, the country is in real trouble”

Lots to consider in this document but it could pay for the long-awaited Cambridge Rowing Lake – even though I will probably be six feet under by the time it is complete! Image – from the consultation on densifying and improving the existing Cambridge Science Park Greater Cambridge Shared Planning’s further call for sites ItContinue reading “Cambridge Science Park North – submission to the emerging local plan 2025”

And ministers have a duty to ensure the new-style councils are properly funded and empowered to do so. Otherwise, what’s the point in the restructures? In recent days I’ve taken a few photos of the depressing state of Cambridge as I made my way around the city by bus to get to various things includingContinue reading “The new unitary council must reverse the urban decay we see on our streets”

They meet at the Mill Road Centre on 20 Sept 2025 from around 4pm. On the wider issues, have a listen to Ash Sarkar on Newsagents here Pictured: The trials of democracy in Cambridge – which has new events coming up! See the details here – it’s also accessible online. Timings means it clashes withContinue reading “Your Party Cambridge meets amidst turmoil at the top while Trials of Democracy returns”

The problem with the latter? They’re just not legal ones. Not yet anyway. Cambridgeshire Police confiscated a number of privately-owned E-scooters from students at Impington Village College a couple of weeks ago. I picked up on it in this week’s Cambridge Independent, and it was also featured on the Histon and Impington community website theContinue reading “Peter Freeman gives evidence at the C2C busway inquiry as teenagers find their own transport solutions”

…says Innovate Cambridge. So why isn’t it? On my way to/from a health check up in Cambridge yesterday… Above L-R: 1) State of Mill Road’s surface (reflecting high traffic volumes & poor maintenance plus lack of alternatives, 2) Public infrastructure from a previous millennium, now abandoned to the fly-posters from the local communist movement, 3)Continue reading “‘In Cambridge, we believe growth must be inclusive…’”

…and thus a complete waste of an evening going to the public consultation that took place the day before the news was announced! Have a listen to the extended intro Tom Keith-Roach of AZ here as he is asked by the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee whether the leaked announcement is a pause orContinue reading “AstraZeneca chief tells Parliament the proposed new conference centre is on hold”