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I’m familiar with several of the people who are going to this event so have signed up for it with my local residents’ forum hat on. (Which means I have to behave!) You can sign up here – and I think it’s important that a critical mass of people who have both ‘lived through’ whatContinue reading “Property industry comes to Cambridge to talk social responsibility”

The Combined Authority has published a monster meeting pack with ***lots of pictures*** (because it’s nearly 50MB in size). In the meantime, a reminder that Cambridge’s council house waiting list is over 2,800 You can read the CPCA papers here, and see the council housing table from the city council at item 6a (p11 ofContinue reading “Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 2050 – with quirky characters too”

Despite the over 1,300 signatures on the petition to save the library for community use, it looks like Cambridgeshire County Council have agreed to dispose of the old library building that was originally built by Cambridge Borough Council in 1897 at the expense of the rate payers of the era You can read the meetingContinue reading “County Council officers recommend sale of Mill Road Library while trying to safeguard community use”

It’s bone-grindingly frustrating trying to find accurate data on the ever-changing housing situation in and around Cambridge. On top of that, the local government structures, alongside laws that govern the property and education sectors do not allow councils to limit the activities that, without restrictions on expansion can harm the greater good of the city.Continue reading “Short term letting and Cambridge’s housing crisis”

Trust me to spot the thing at 20 minutes to midnight… It’s being debated by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board on 11 October 2024 at Peterborough Town Hall [You’re a city – you have a cathedral down the road from your council’s HQ!] “I didn’t know we had a health and wellbeingContinue reading “Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – very important, have you heard of it?”

At the Greater Cambridge Partnership’s Board Meeting (see the papers here), Board Members voted to approve moving to the next stage for the Cambridge South East Transport project – but not without having addressed issues raised repeatedly by pro-rail/light rail campaigners first First of all my thanks to Cllr Elisa Meschini (Labour – King’s Hedges),Continue reading “Dr Andy Williams says Cambridge’s ‘overcomplex governance structures’ led to major delays in large transport projects”

In a letter to the Chairman of Homes England, the Minister for Housing and Planning, Matthew Pennycook MP name-checked the city as being an example of how other parts of England might ‘deliver’ major infrastructure If that’s the case, then his officials and the key stakeholders around him are only giving him a partial, rose-tintedContinue reading “Housing minister says the ‘Cambridge model might serve as a template for establishing other place-specific delivery bodies’”

Cambridge’s first indoor skate park opened earlier today – I went along to have a look Cambridge hasn’t had anything like this – not in my time anyway. It’s also been something I’ve been cheering on from afar and chasing after local politicians over (See this from April 2023). I’m not going to claim anyContinue reading “CamSkate shows Cambridge how to do it right – and do the right thing”

My question on what assessment the GCP had made of Rail Future’s consultant’s report on Rail Haverhill was declined by the Board. I tabled the PQ following a depressing GCP Assembly meeting where assembly members failed to ensure senior officers demonstrated sufficient examination of alternative proposals. I wanted to see whether the GCP had consideredContinue reading “Greater Cambridge Partnership doubles down on CSET busway over rail alternatives”

The results of the review have potentially huge implications for the provision of lifelong learning services in England (it’s a devolved matter remember) – but only if ministers are prepared to put serious resources into it as well Image: From Adult Education for Democracy (1944) digitised here You can read the call for evidence pageContinue reading “Adult education and the national curriculum review”