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The soon-to-be-dissolved county council signed a 250 year lease with a London-based property group and placed with a subsidiary firm called Cambridge Apartment Hotels Ltd You can read the press release here, and the report from BBC Cambridgeshire here. It will take them another 18 months to negotiate the details, and then they have theContinue reading “Shire hall apart-hotel plan given go-ahead by Cambridgeshire County Council”

The announcements in the Chancellor’s Spending Review felt like they were reported in the style of a Monty Python Film – which is why going to the source documents rather than relying on the media is always a good habit! “So, who got what then?” ‘I think it was ‘Blessed are the cheesemakers” “What’s soContinue reading “*I’m glad they’re getting something coz they have a helluva time!* The Spending Review 2025”

Reading through some of the social media write-ups on Cambridge-Wide Open Day, the democratic and Political issues were conspicuous by their absence. At some stage these events will need to grapple with them and figure out what accountability means. I went along to a couple of events back in 2023 (see my write-up here) butContinue reading “Democratic accountability issues with ‘Two architects of Cambridge’”

The recently-published agenda is hardly worth having the meeting for. Taking place on 19th June from 2pm at The Guildhall in Cambridge, you’re probably better off standing outside protesting and waving a placard. At least that way you might get more media coverage! There’s nothing on the agenda to indicate the changing party political balanceContinue reading “Why isn’t the Greater Cambridge Partnership Assembly addressing the recent election results?”

On how people on low incomes and face two sets of barriers when it comes to trying to influence decisions made about where they live – and also has wider impacts on policies trying to deal with loneliness in society This is my second attempt at trying to write this post because I got side-trackedContinue reading “How often do you go to events where the food and drink is ‘on the house’?”

The author of ‘Human Transit’ (in the metro public transport sense) has invited any interested groups to organise a speaking event and/or a 2-day transit design course both in and for our city TL/DR? See JW & Associates’ transit network design course here. Image – from Cambridge Connect Light Rail Given a number of CambridgeContinue reading “Transport infrastructure expert Jarrett Walker will be in Cambridge in Sept 2025”

With the consultations on the Cambridge Growth Company and the new unitary council looming, now is the time for civic-minded residents to speak up. Town, gown, and county. TL/DR? Look at the charter here – and specifically at the commitments from Section 7. Image – The Trials of Democracy, which has more events coming upContinue reading “The University of East Anglia has created a civic charter – can Cambridge University get one too?”

The multiple symptoms are now impossible to avoid. So long as Ministers and in particular The Treasury insist on holding onto the levers of power that might lead to improvements, little will change Image: “Cambridge& – Impossible Stories”. Part of me is like: **I’ll give you an impossible story! ‘Ordinary resident on minimum wage workingContinue reading “Chronically high land and property prices are poisoning our city”

With three major developments next to each other, it will be interesting to see how the final designs compare, contrast, and interact, when they are finally built TL/DR? See the Crown Estates consultation here – you have until 02 July 2025 to send in your views. I went along to the Cambridge Business Park consultationContinue reading “Who will build the best development west of Cambridge North Station?”

…something that I’ve been waiting nearly a decade for – along with everyone else who has been supporting the Cambridge Connect Light Rail proposals Image – Puffles the Dragon Fairy in Haverhill back in April 2014, linking up the town’s rail-reopening campaign with the emerging work on what became the GCP Credit to Daniel FultonContinue reading “Combined Authority Mayor Paul Bristow says next step for light rail is a feasibility study”