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Some lessons learnt from the East West Rail Debate hosted by Cambridge Young Greens at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 06 Nov 2024 TL/DR? We’ve got to produce materials and content that can enable students to get up to speed as quickly as possible on whatever issue they are being invited to campaign on. Especially oneContinue reading “How can Cambridge residents help students get involved in shaping the future of our city?”

The developer either has to appeal or come back with new plans – but why did he sit on the site for so long, and not make greater efforts to preserve it? This relates to this earlier blogpost. I wasn’t at The Guildhall earlier today, but you can watch the video in full here. Additionally:Continue reading “Cambridge Planning Committee *refuses* permission to demolish Hobson Street Cinema for new offices”

Cllr Dr Dave Baigent (Labour – Romsey) raised an issue that reflected our city and county’s broken governance structures at Cambridge City Council’s Planning and Transport Scrutiny Committee at Cambridge Guildhall last night. Image: The Trials of Democracy by Hilary Cox Condron and Friends – get involved here! You can see the meeting papers hereContinue reading “How should local government in/around Cambridge scrutinise Peter Freeman & his growth company?”

The all-party group of MPs representing the East of England risks being seen as a voice only for controversial corporate interests if it does not broaden the range of people and institutions involved in it You can see the East of England APPG website here “What is an APPG?” You can see the explanation fromContinue reading “East of England All-Party Group of MPs needs to diversify its group of sponsors”

…said Dr Andy Williams, formerly of Astra Zeneca to the Combined Authority’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee Which sounds great to me because that’s what I have been calling for ***for ages*** (most recently here when the meeting papers were published) …and I only found out about Wisbech Rail because I took Puffles to a meetingContinue reading “Wisbech Rail needs to be integrated into a bigger project”

Re-announced spending is governments are routinely accused of. Media organisations need to be careful – as to politicians, on what is ‘New’ funding vs what has already been announced so sums are not double-counted Some of you may have spotted the Chancellor in Cambridge on 01 November 2024. She was talking about the investment fromContinue reading “Is the £500million Cambridge Biomedical Campus investment ‘new’ or ‘re-announced’ investment?”

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook MP tells Cambridge Growth Company Chair Peter Freeman that “one or more contiguous urban extensions of the city [of Cambridge] must be core components of the vision” It was Mark Williamson who spotted this earlier and this blogpost looks at the last time around such a massive expansion of Cambridge wasContinue reading “Housing minister poses the ‘John Parry Lewis’ question to Cambridge – Fifty years on”

This was confirmed in a statement to Parliament earlier – although I was kind of hoping for something far more radical such as funding for a light rail metro or confirmation that local government structures would be overhauled as well. If you live in/around Cambridge, you can email your MP via https://www.writetothem.com/ and ask yourContinue reading “Cambridge Delivery Group evolves into a growth company with Peter Freeman appointed chair”

The Chancellor says that ‘This is not a budget we would want to repeat‘ while the University of Cambridge runs up a deficit higher than expected. You may have seen the headlines on Cambridge University here. Part of me is wondering whether the Judge Institute for Management Studies can do an in-depth study of theContinue reading “Both Government and Cambridge University announce larger-than-expected deficits”

Have a read of their report and tell them what you think! Also, one of Cambridge’s post-war high-rise (for Cambridge!) housing developments is being demolished and replaced with new modern flats You can read Cambridgeshire County Council’s Engagement and Consultation Strategy at Item 10 here. “This strategy explains how the council will ensure that theContinue reading “How should Cambridgeshire engage with residential communities?”