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The final two public events are coming up on Saturday and Tuesday (see EWR for details) and it’s worth considering what emerging role the new town of Cambourne will play in the future of city and county Before I start, a reminder of next Sunday’s informal TeaCambs2 gathering at Stir Cafe on Cherry Hinton RoadContinue reading “Have your say on East West Rail Cambridge – and don’t forget Cambourne”

The announcement comes a few days after senior figures published a joint letter about Cambridge Growth in the Cambridge Independent Pictured: Puffles the dragon fairy with a folk festival volunteer at the 2012 festival. In 2016 I filmed this short walk-through vlogpost. On my LostCambridge blog I wrote this about the history of the festivalContinue reading “Cambridge Folk Festival 2025 cancelled as those benefits of growth keep coming”

Both institutions take a much broader geographical view than Cambridge City Council – and both have the expert transport officer capacity to go into more detail than their city counterparts If you want to stay up to date with all things East West Rail expert comment, get in touch with Rail Future East Anglia here.Continue reading “Combined Authority and County Council respond to East West Rail”

Results of the Bus Franchising consultation have been published and will be debated by the Transport and Infrastructure Committee of the Combined Authority on Fri 24 Jan 2025 You can read the meeting papers here – which also cover East West Rail. The extended list of documents for item 7 include the equalities impact assessmentContinue reading “Bus franchising for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough ready to go”

I’m not sure what the Better Beehive Campaign are going to make of this proposal given their campaigning on the proposals for the Beehive redevelopment on the other side of Coldham’s Lane, but it feels like a missed opportunity to get a new station at Coldham’s Lane built This follows on from my previous blogpostContinue reading “RailPEN proposes building two multi-storey car parks on Cambridge Retail Park. Instead of a railway station”

The blurb said: “This event is being hosted by Landmark Chambers in partnership with Mills & Reeve and Bidwells. It is free to attend and will take place in person at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, CB5 8BL.“ Pictured: Hideous Cambridge by Jones and Hall. Please can we avoid past mistakes? I found out aboutContinue reading “When the planning experts came to Cambridge”

The data seems to tell an astonishing story – one that needs to be clarified by senior executives and ministers given the choices the Government is making on future growth See Mark Williamson’s response to former Queen Edith’s ward councillor Sam Davies MBE. “So the East of England is the second worst region in theContinue reading “Why has the total number of beds at Addenbrooke’s stayed static over the past quarter of a century?”

Comments from the councillors should be publicised more widely – if only to let residents know more about what building work is happening in our city There were two important debates at The Guildhall earlier this evening for Planning and Transport Scrutiny Committee (see the papers here), but sadly few were there to observe onlineContinue reading “What councillors had to say about Cambridge’s house building statistics and on East West Rail”

…possibly in February 2025 according to the Better Beehive Campaign. Time to look at the planning application documents again – all 540 of them! Go to the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service here, Then hover over ‘Search’ -> ‘Planning’ -> ‘Simple Search’ and type in the reference: 23/03204/OUT The text of the application summary reads:Continue reading “Beehive redevelopment’s planning hearing coming up…”

Does anyone know where to start for something that involves all of us? (A bit like the climate emergency? Many of you may have spotted the headlines about the Prime Minister’s speech on all things AI – and this new ‘Opportunities Action Plan’ (which you can read here) which is also published today. The Government’sContinue reading “Who has got time to become an AI and media literate active citizen?”