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Can Cambridge Pledge-makers help find a much-improved solution for town and gown alike with the old Hobson Street Cinema building? You can read the article here. This follows the refusal of Cambridge City Council to authorise the comprehensive redevelopment of the cinema for offices back in November 2024 following significant representations from a number ofContinue reading “BBC Cambridgeshire interviews the owner of Hobson Street Cinema”

The board of HM Treasury needs updating as it’s over 3 years out of date. And if the personnel are still the same, then the lack of local government experience speaks volumes You can read the biographies here Government to abolish district councils – says the FT See Jen Williams here. The line that leftContinue reading “HM Treasury is the weak link in the Government’s devolution plans”

And none of them account for the the needs of the wider city and economic sub-region as a whole – which is why ministers need to strengthen local councils and combined authorities to push back against the financiers most likely to profit handsomely from a new generation of housebuilding I’m posting this to coincide withContinue reading “A reminder of who has what plans for the future of Cambridge”

It would have been nice to have. had a few more local residents coming along to this event given the number of council staff there were, but even that handful of residents reflected a diversity of views and life experiences that taught us something new Let’s face it, an evening session in the middle ofContinue reading “The future of local government for Cambridge – Coleridge ward”

Following on from Part 1 here, in this blogpost I look at the things in the Britain Remade/Create Streets report that I quite like The first thing to note with the map below is ***Yes! Trams!*** Above – from Britain Remade/Create Streets 2024 Compare that with the latest iteration of the Cambridge Connect Light RailContinue reading “Cambridge Remade – looking at a proposal to expand our city: part 2”

This is from a report published by Britain Remade with Create Streets here Both the principles they have set out and their list of case studies are worth reading and scrutinising. For decades I’ve said “Bad news first” so in part 1, I’ll look at some issues and how you can scrutinise what has alreadyContinue reading “Cambridge Remade – looking at a proposal to expand our city: part 1”

The campaign group says it will oppose the application for a new busway that only covers half of the originally-proposed route At Rail Future East’s annual Cambridge meeting, Peter Westlake confirmed that the campaign group will be opposing the application to the Transport Secretary for approval for a new busway as part of the ‘CSET”Continue reading “Rail Future annual Cambridge Meeting Part 2 – strong criticism of GCP over Rail Haverhill –”

Veteran public transport and cycling campaigner Jim Chisholm asks when Cambridge Station will get its long-proposed new Eastern Entrance, and highlights from Cllr Katie Thornburrow’s presentation It wasn’t just me asking about it then! But what astonished the audience – myself included, is that Mr Chisholm at made the case in previous public consultations aboutContinue reading “Rail Future’s annual Cambridge Meeting – Part 1”

The Chvrches lead singer released her first solo album, and the first few singles of it are incredibly powerful – not least given the incredibly rough time she’s had in the music industry and from social media abuse I wanted to write about something different, but old habits on politics and local issues are hardContinue reading “Lauren Mayberry’s heartfelt thanks”

It might sound familiar to longterm public policy-watchers but one thing the past decade has taught us is that senior politicians have to repeat the same short soundbites again and again in order for them to sink into the consciousness of the general public Which is why I didn’t take too much notice of theContinue reading “Sir Keir’s Milestones for Mission Led Government”