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Kristin Anne-Rutter for the University of Cambridge focused attention on the big challenge in financing any future public transport system in and around Cambridge. The problem is that ministers have refused to provide the public policy options to have what Sir Humphrey might say is a robust debate leading to a mature and responsible conclusion!Continue reading “The Greater Cambridge Partnership’s challenge in finding a sustainable & independent revenue stream”

A short blogpost to let you know the videos from the livestream are now up The videos (which I’ve only labeled the speakers, topped-and-tailed, and clicked on the ‘auto-enhance’ option) are: The candidates listed are: Candidates for by-election for King’s Hedges ward, Cambridge City Council, on July 4, 2023 You can contact them/their campaigns viaContinue reading “Cambridge by-election: King’s Hedges hustings, 28 June 2023”

The co-founder of the Government Digital Service from one of my previous lifetimes wrote a list of twelve principles back in 2018. While Mr Loosemore has invited readers to suggest updates – but for Cambridge, we’d do well to implement his first set of proposals! Tom Loosemore posted this: You can read Mr Loosemore’s articleContinue reading “What would Cambridge be like if town and gown institutions adopted Tom Loosemore’s public digital principles?”

TL/DR: Read the Developer Presentation [32MB file] from the meeting papers here. Then let the developers know your views via their website here. I moaned about this a little in some previous blogposts but felt it needed one of its own to make the point. In the grand scheme of things you don’t need meContinue reading “Details of Grafton Centre science lab proposals show minimal community facilities”

Cllr Sam Davies MBE said it’s all becoming a blur a few weeks ago here. At the GCP joint Assembly/Board earlier today I dropped in to see what was happening and it only convinced me that the way our city is structured is utterly broken. (You can see the meeting papers here) Anyway, here areContinue reading “Struggling to keep up with who is proposing what for Cambridge”

Papers from the Combined Authority show our county needs to ramp up our retraining and re-skilling efforts to deal with what sounds like existing jobs and careers becoming obsolete. Having lived through that transition in the late 1990s, the costs of retraining cannot and should not be left to employees and those unemployed, underemployed, orContinue reading ““Over ten percent of jobs in Cambridgeshire need upskilling to become Green jobs””

At the Academy of Urbanism’s Congress 2023 in Cambridge I was glad that international delegates I spoke to were able to comment on the governance structures of the City of Cambridge – which I’ve described as a city with a globally-recognised name that is run like a market town. I should say Thank you toContinue reading ““Ridiculous” was how some international delegates at the AoU Congress described Cambridge’s governance structures”

Some interesting lessons learnt at the Academy of Urbanism’s congress – and not perhaps the ones I thought after day 1. (For those of you wondering who the town owl is inspired by, look at the clock at the top of the Guildhall overlooking Market Square in Cambridge). I’m a sort of partial attendee, unableContinue reading “How can the people of Cambridge scrutinise how our city is marketed and promoted?”

Emerging proposals from Mission Street for their development on the old Coldham’s Lane Tip and the cement works are missing that all-important rail/light rail transport link [*Updated to add*] -> You can watch the debate about this site by Cambridge City Councillors on East Area Committee here You can see their updated proposals here “AlwaysContinue reading “Project Newton – TSFKA Land South of Coldham’s Lane.”

I think I lost the will to live after hearing the platitudes from the developers of another sci/tech building that only got approved on appeal to the Planning Inspectorate again – this one being on Fulbourn Road just over the city boundary in South Cambridgeshire. I’ve moaned about Cambridge Technology Park before. It was whenContinue reading “A gym and a few yoga classes in every new sci/tech development won’t meet Cambridge’s sports & leisure needs”