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I had a brief look at the draft report back in July 2024 (see here), after which it has since been updated and will now be discussed and scrutinised by the Combined Authority’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee next week It was such a monster of a report that I didn’t really pick up much thatContinue reading “Excruciating inequalities revealed in the CPCA State of the Region 2024 Report”

***I want that one!*** (for some of the spare land at the Cambridge Museum of Technology, formerly the sewage pumping station) Cambridge City Council’s Environment & Community Scrutiny Committee – the one that decides who gets what small cash grants and for what, meets on 16 Jan 2025 at The Guildhall – see the meetingContinue reading “A new industrial-themed playground for Cambridge? Could be fun!”

I would like Cambridge to have one sometime in 2025 – perhaps once the mayoral elections are out of the way. The concept is simple: Do what the students do every year, but for ‘town’ (and county too!) And for those of you who want to be even more active (but avoid the politics), seeContinue reading “Cambridge Societies’ Fair – why can’t we have one?”

These policies must include proposed new powers to tax the wealth generated in the region to pay for solutions to our chronic skills shortages that the employers themselves persistently complain about One huge problem is that the larger employers are not meeting their potential new employees where they are at in life. Furthermore, the policiesContinue reading “Mayoral candidates will need a comprehensive set of policies on lifelong learning”

Only I’m bored of asking, and I really don’t think that any city should have its local council or municipal authority outsourcing the function to an under-funded quango whose remit is aimed at visitors to our city rather than the people who actually live in it. Otherwise they wouldn’t be called Visit Cambridge – notingContinue reading “Can we have a single events portal for Cambridge?”

It’s a long-overdue decision, and one that takes into account of a host of wider changes offline as well as online, 14 years and 35 days after setting up my first account. Above – that’s me locking up on the site formerly known as Twitter. I have no plans for posting any new content orContinue reading “My rapid rise and fall with social media as I quit Birdsite”

The long and controversial process on this busway will shortly go to a public inquiry as the deadline for objections – 08 Jan 2025, approaches. (If you want to submit your own objection (or alternatively, a letter of support), see here). See also Menagerie Theatre’s The Trials of Democracy project and their new events startingContinue reading “Cambridge Charity submits objection to GCP’s Cambourne to Cambridge busway”

I got hit by a social media advert on this one, but there was something about the video that raised a few diversity issue flags So this landed and I shared it on my Cambridge Town Owl FB page which is where I often re-post city-wide community things. It was also not long after IContinue reading “I can’t believe it’s another new Cambridge community choir!”

Does planning law enable such things to be imposed by local councils? The Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service has re-publicised its trio of consultations here, covering: Additionally, please watch the video here from the GCSP and share the link to anyone interested. Commenting on the consultation   On the Planning Obligations, there are only 23 chapters,Continue reading “Should student accommodation developments make financial contributions towards social housing?”

Imagine Scouts or Guides but for adults. Then cram it all into a single day while running around Cambridge in groups of four, competing against over 100 other people. It’s coming to Cambridge in April 2025 “On April 26th up to 30 teams of Rebels will be hitting the streets of Cambridge to play aContinue reading “Have badges, will rebel”