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Accessibility of Cambridge City’s Planning Process
I believe: There should be clear, timely notification of the speaking rules at planning meetings given to applicants and interested parties. Site notices should used in a greater proportion of applications, and should contain more details of how to have your say. Site notices should be placed in prominent places*. It should not be necessary […]
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North Area Committee – March 2008
I attended Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee meeting on the 6th of March 2008. The official minutes won’t be published for many weeks and judging by past experience they’ll miss out the interesting bits. So here’s my recollection: Councillor Nimmo-Smith updated the meeting on his discussions with Anglia Water, The Environment Agency, South Cambridgeshire […]
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Cambridge Congestion Charge – FOI Request
To: foi at – cambridgeshire.gov.uk Could you please send me by email or preferably make available on your website, the documents which comprise the output of the circa one million pounds spent on consultants as part of the preparations for making a bid to the central Government’s Transport Innovation Fund in late 2007. I expect […]
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Opposition to a database of where children are outside school hours
Dear County Councillor Moss Eccardt, (Copied to the School) I have just read on the Cambridge Evening News website that: “Alison Evans, of Great and Little Shelford Primary School, has come under fire for her plan to build the database which would detail where children are outside school hours in a bid to stop them […]
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Dispersal Orders and Ecops Operation in Cambridge
To: Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority. At the Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee on the 28th of February Sgt. Cross of the Police reported problems with the operation of dispersal zone which includes Mill Road in […]
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Congestion Charge – East Area
I was able to speak to Paul Cook, Cambridgeshire’s Head of Transport Policy and Strategy during the Congestion Charge exhibition held before Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee meeting on Thursday 28th February. I let Mr Cook, and the councillors know that I opposed the congestion charge, thought central government was blackmailing the people of […]
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Virgin Media – Fibre Optic Broadband Adverts
I complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about Virgin Media’s Advertising of its broadband internet as being delivered over Fibre Optic Cables, on the straight forward grounds that it is not. The ASA rejected my complaint, so I appealed to the Independent Reviewer of Advertising Standards Authority Adjudications, Sir John Caines, my letter to him […]
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Virgin Media – Fibre Optic Broadband
David Howarth, (Cambridge MP) Virgin Media supplies me, and many of your constituents with Broadband internet. They wrote to me this week to say: “Virgin Broadband comes via fibre optic cable”. It clearly doesn’t as normal traditional metallic cables bring it into my house. Virgin media have been at this game of lying about the […]
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Review: The History of Imperial College London
Hannah Gay’s History of Imperial College London from 1907-2007 was published for the college centenary and is available from Imperial College press. The zebra crossing on Prince Consort road being put in place after activist students painted one on the road; painted foot prints walking over buildings as a RAG prank and the Union Bar […]
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Cycleway Sign Suggestion
Clare Rankin, David Bradford, I am writing to you as you are listed as “Walking and Cycling Development and Promotion Officers” on Cambridge City Council’s Website. I have noticed that on the Cambridge Cycle Campaign map (http://www.camcycle.org.uk/resources/citycentre/) recently sent to most houses in Cambridge it states it is acceptable to cycle through the bollards and […]