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This may inform our generation of what we need to consider on behalf of future generations that will have to live with our decisions. Let’s go straight to 1934 – W.R. Davidge’s Cambridgeshire Regional Plan I digitised it and uploaded it here for everyone to read. The context is straight forward: This was the firstContinue reading “How does the draft Greater Cambridge Local Plan 2030-41 compare with its distant predecessors?”

Because it’s a monster of a document – and is too important to leave to the passionate few and/or those paid to work with it. I’ve got no headspace for this because I’ve caught a nasty cold virus in the middle of a heatwave, so bear with me. (And/or please donate to my lemsip fund!)Continue reading “Breaking down the draft Gtr Cambridge Local Plan 2030-41 into bitesize chunks”

Can we get developers and land owners debating with local residents and campaign groups prior to the formal hearings – and thrash out what needs to be said to each other in advance? You can read the story and look at the map here. There is *so much* that I could write in the faceContinue reading “Can Greater Cambridge do its next local plan differently this time?”

Could happen – if the wealthy landowners agree. I’m assuming they are wealthy. But we don’t know because successive governments have chosen to withhold making Land Registry data public and free to access. But if we are looking at local responses to the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Climate Commission’s Report, then this is the sortContinue reading “Could we re-wild Grantchester Meadows on both sides of the River Cam as part of increased flash flood defences?”

“Put on music and they will come!” Sunday afternoon in changeable weather at Coleridge Rec with the Soham Comrades Band. So they (the city council) did. And even though these things tend not to have huge advertising campaigns along with them, a few hundred people turned up. Above in the left-centre of the pano isContinue reading “Very young footballers in princess outfits playing while the brass band played”

And unlike in 1940 when Britain had an empire to call on for support, the result of the Prime Minister’s actions of abandoning Europe and chasing after a US trade deal that never was, has left Britain alone and isolated in a manner not seen since the Napoleonic wars. The speech by the Chair ofContinue reading “Boris Johnson’s Norway Debate”

So writes the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills Gillian Keegan to Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner, who wrote to her on my behalf How MPs hold ministers to account on behalf of their constituents. Some of you will be aware that I’ve been making some noise about a new generation of adult education colleges – inContinue reading “Ministers must approve the construction of and funding for new adult education colleges”

I’ve sort of come to the conclusion that I am anyway. I don’t know about you. But at least the Millennials and Generation Z have got the fight still within them – see the Deloitte report here. Given it’s their future, policy-makers should be listening to them much more. You can go to the IntergovernmentalContinue reading “We’re doomed, aren’t we?”

Following up on the news that the Grafton Centre is up for sale How much for a 1980s-era shopping centre that was extended in 1995, but is now up for sale? I stumbled across this sales brochure for the last time the site was up for sale – and I noticed that the number ofContinue reading “Why is a 1980s shopping centre being marketed as a possible site for science labs?”