There’s still time to get your questions in for the Greater Cambridge Assembly Meeting on 10 June (see start of my last blogpost here). There is also the formalities of the first Mayoral meeting on 02 June with local council leaders from across Cambridgeshire – the papers are here. The vision of the transport systemContinue reading “Refreshing Greater Cambridge’s 2030 vision post-CV19 & Post-2021 elections”
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The Greater Cambridge Partnership must change policies to reflect the recent local election results
For the first time in its history, there will be no Conservatives on the GCP Board. Yet for its first four years (2014-18) that party held the majority. In the course of three years, the electorate has voted to remove Conservative political control of both South Cambridgeshire District Council, and of Cambridgeshire County Council. Accordingly,Continue reading “The Greater Cambridge Partnership must change policies to reflect the recent local election results”
Reading between the lines of what the Community Planning Alliance Map shows us
Some of you may have spotted the crowd-sourced map here, It was started by Rosie Pearson and seems to have picked up quite a following, with over 400 separate grassroots campaigns now listed. It has also been picked up by a new generation of pro-housing campaigners (mainly my age and younger) who are basically crushedContinue reading “Reading between the lines of what the Community Planning Alliance Map shows us”
If developers want their post-2030 bids in South Cambridgeshire to be accepted, they need to get behind Cambridge Connect Light Rail
*Declaration of interest: I’ve been supporting the concept of a light rail underground from Cambridge Connect since first hearing about it. I run its Facebook page as a volunteer. This is also an opinion piece by myself speaking only for myself, and not for any institution, organisation, alliance, collective, association or group. Looking through theContinue reading “If developers want their post-2030 bids in South Cambridgeshire to be accepted, they need to get behind Cambridge Connect Light Rail”
Cambridge Biomedical Campus – the plans for a very large expansion
This is why you need transparency *and* trained, informed, and educated people (whether councillors, paid professionals, or active residents) to keep a watch on very large institutions In this case, Cllr Sam Davies (Ind – Queen Ediths – Cambridge City Council) spotted this. “Noooo! My head is full of brain fog! Do we have toContinue reading “Cambridge Biomedical Campus – the plans for a very large expansion”
Time to re-open a Cambridge Activism Centre?
We had one – if not two, during the late 1970s. One of them was an alternative bookshop. Are rents in and around The Grafton Centre now low enough to secure a medium-term lease to restart one? I wanted to go to bed but then I remembered we had an alternative bookshop in the lateContinue reading “Time to re-open a Cambridge Activism Centre?”
How do you turn a city/county wish list into successful campaigns, and completed civic buildings & facilities?
Especially when the relevant documents require a post-graduate level of understanding (and an extended amount of time to commit to the research) just to extract the essentials? Image above from New Local With my chronic fatigue not getting much better, it’s easy to forget that the good health of activists and campaigners must also beContinue reading “How do you turn a city/county wish list into successful campaigns, and completed civic buildings & facilities?”
Committee allocations reveal how unnecessarily complicated local government in Cambridge is. Can we simplify it?
I think Avril Lavigne got it spot on back in 2002. “Why d’ya have to go and make things so complicated?!?!?” You can see them in the nominations for the various committees at Cambridge City Council which they will be voting through on 26 May. So, let’s list them: Actually, let’s not. You can seeContinue reading “Committee allocations reveal how unnecessarily complicated local government in Cambridge is. Can we simplify it?”
The proposed Cambridge Biomedical Campus & Science Park North expansions will require developers to contribute substantially to new infrastructure – including water supply
You may have seen the recent announcements in the media – including this by Alya Zayed on the proposal to double the size of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus at Addenbrooke’s. But before I get going, I remind readers and those behind the developments of the existing water crisis, and what Cambridge City Council & SouthContinue reading “The proposed Cambridge Biomedical Campus & Science Park North expansions will require developers to contribute substantially to new infrastructure – including water supply”
“Renewed investment in youth services”, says Cllr Lucy Nethsingha, Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council
The new Joint Administration of the county Liberal Democrat, Labour, and Independent Groups on the county council hit the ground running after nearly a quarter of a century of domination by the Conservatives. (Photo – Hannah Olsson) The first full council of Cambridgeshire County Council met for the first time at the Imperial War MuseumContinue reading ““Renewed investment in youth services”, says Cllr Lucy Nethsingha, Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council”
The Cambridge Town Owl 