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Which is splendid! Now, how is the University of Cambridge getting on with their long-delayed pool at West Cambridge? ***Well doesn’t this look wonderful!*** Above – Green and Open Space Types (Cambridge & Fringe) 2025, p109 Note the table of priority projects below. Above – a screen grab of p99 of the draft infrastructure deliveryContinue reading “Greater Cambridge Infrastructure Study recommends 12-lane public swimming pool”

I went to the afternoon session of the launch event at Anglia Ruskin University earlier – mainly to plead the case for lifelong learning. Fortunately one of the speakers (Mark Wakeford of Ovo Energy) on the panel made the case for me. You can read the report here (scroll to the end for the PDF)Continue reading “The governance-shaped gap in the Ox-Cam Growth Corridor”

I highlighted this omission back in October – but no changes were made to the draft. If Cambridge is to grow in the manner the Minister for Housing wants to, not only do arts, sports, and leisure facilities need to be connected by public transport, but the University of Cambridge will need to prioritise itsContinue reading “Local Growth Plan omits The Arts.”

I mentioned I’d come back to this in my earlier blogpost from Peter Freeman’s extended Q&A with city councillors I was sort of fortunate because I had one of my local city councillors and my local county councillor represented on the committees that formed the selection of councillors doing the cross examination. Of the write-upsContinue reading “The Cambridge Growth Company and the democratic deficit – who is in charge?”

This follows on from my October 2025 blogpost when we all heard the news Ten years ago you would have had an event full of live tweeters/bloggers for an event like this, with feedback coming in from outside. It speaks volumes of social media and the chaps at the top that the tools and culturesContinue reading “Forest City’s first offline event in Cambridge”

There were seven people from the Cambridge Growth Company there this evening – which is why I was a little disappointed that there were hardly any people in the public seats TL/DR? Watch the meeting here from Cambridge City Council’s stream *Note to Cambridge City Council, please could you upload the CGC slides to theContinue reading “Councillors cross examine Peter Freeman and his Cambridge Growth Company team”

It remains to be seen whether the final plans will be an improvement to what were in the documents submitted by the RAILPEN who lobbied ministers heavily to get the application called in. You can see: The controversial application was called in 15 minutes before the meeting to determine the application began. Personally I don’tContinue reading “Building Safety Minister approves Beehive Redevelopment”

In a social media update, Cambridge Ahead published a summary of a meeting they had with officers from the Combined Authority. You can read their update here “Key discussion points included:🔷 The importance of a long-term transport vision, including both arterial routes and orbital connectivity. 🔷 The potential of travel hubs and multi-modal transport solutions.Continue reading “Cambridge Ahead’s Transport Group needs to be more public-facing”

The mainstream media has picked up on something I blogged about back in September – the creation of a replacement for the current Addenbrooke’s Hospital [Updated 10 December 2025] You can read: …only I’m old enough to remember the road signs in the 1980s on Hills Road Bridge pointing to the ‘New Addenbrooke’s’ because theContinue reading “Cambridge Biomedical Campus Open Forum – 15 Dec 2025”

Anglia Ruskin University are going to try and revamp their bits of it – but I’m not confident given the record of their architects given the latter’s back catalogue of building designs that di little but generate range and fury in my neurodiverse brain. I stumbled across their proposals at this planning committee meeting atContinue reading “How do you revamp a road like East Road – ruined by woeful urban design?”