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A local employment site close to where Coleridge, Cherry Hinton, and Queen Edith’s wards intersect (so on the constituency boundary of Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire constituency) has been bought out by a big pension fund. TL:DR? Have your say here, or alternatively go along to the consultation event at Lincoln House at The Paddocks onContinue reading “Another sci-tech development consultation? Over the summer holidays?”

The Government through its housing delivery agency Homes England put out a statement on the rapidly-growing New Town of Northstowe that has been in the news of late But before we start, have a look at this half hour video all about Northstowe published in mid-July 2024 (a few days ago). You can keep upContinue reading “Government intervenes in Northstowe”

At the formal opening of the new Parliament, The King read out a list of proposed new laws that the Ministers will ask Parliament to approve That doesn’t mean these are the only things that the Government proposes – rather that of the things that it wants to do, the ones that require changes inContinue reading “The King’s Speech – and another Cambridgeshire consultation”

What will our county or combined authority area be like in a quarter of a century’s time? TL/DR? Fill out the survey here. Actually, you’ll need to read the second PDF document of the Stakeholder Engagement Workshop 3 materials here in order to make sense of what the survey asks of you. Civics and citizenshipContinue reading “Cambridgeshire 2050”

Big questions remain for the organisations supporting the Cambridge Biomedical Campus – and ministers need to clarify what their policies are on the growth of Cambridge I wrote about the housing report the CBC published back in April 2024 here. I won’t repeat what I wrote in there. The meeting I was at earlier wasContinue reading “Public transport provision will make or break the Cambridge Biomedical Campus”

The newly-appointed Energy Secretary – taking up a former post he had in the last Labour Government, moved quickly to ‘unblock’ a trio of solar farm developments. One of those was the Sunnica Solar Farm on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border. This was a controversial decision given the scale of the proposals as well as the locationContinue reading “Ed Miliband approves large solar farm on the East Cambs / West Suffolk Border”

The transport engineers should leave the naming up to someone else as a swathe of papers are published by the Combined Authority – including an updated Bus Service Improvement Plan You can read them here One of the items it links to is a proposed improved Oxford-Cambridge cycleway. Above – you can read about theContinue reading “Varsity Way Active Travel Corridor”

Without co-ordination and sequencing of consultations, individual projects will be constrained by circumstances and issues that are both critical to their success yet are outside of their scope Cambridge Civic Quarter In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) see the consultation boards and pages via here. I went to the last of the public events earlierContinue reading “The system of consultations in Cambridge is broken”

It’s 1.30am but I’ve only just stumbled across this report while listening into an excruciating press conference by the US President. Only it felt like this was potentially a significant moment in international political history. It remains to be seen what that significance will be. In the meantime… The Combined Authority is back with aContinue reading “Cambridgeshire and Peterborough – State of the Region 2024”

For all of the planning and consultation going on – too much of which is fragmented and poorly co-ordinated, people need to see that councils and the government are serious about long term improvements if they are to become willing participants in a new era of community action A handful of current and former councillorsContinue reading “Maintenance, prevention, enforcement – short term measures to improve Cambridge”