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Seeking Permission to Record Cambridge City Council Meetings
This image of the Cambridge City’s June 2010 Full Council was
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East Chesterton County Council By-Election 2010
Candidates in the East Chesterton By-Election On Thursday the 16th of September 2010 there will be a by-election in East Chesterton for the County Council seat left vacant by the resignation of Liberal Democrat Siep Wijsenbeek who had only been a councillor since June 2009. East Chesterton is a ward which has inflicted a series […]
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Liberal Democrat Councillors Approve Garden Grabbing in Cherry Hinton
Liberal Democrat councillors have approved building a new bungalow on the site of this tree in a Cambridge back garden At a national level the coalition’s governing document, the programme for Government, states an intent to give “councils new powers to stop ‘garden grabbing’”. Localism is still at the core of the way planning decisions […]
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Publication Standards for Local Government Spending Data
Anyone wanting find out what an item of spending published by Bedford Council refers to is invited to contact the council to find out as they don’t proactively publish descriptions. On Friday the 10th of September 2010 Data.gov.uk’s Local Data Panel published their draft guidance for Local Authorities on how to comply with the Prime […]
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Cambridge MP Julian Huppert’s Voting Record So Far
Image: Houses of Parliament, London, Monet c.1904 This week I have been looking at how Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert has been voting since the city’s residents sent him to Parliament earlier this year. Interesting Votes I have written previously about the vote on the 8th of June 2010 where Julian Huppert abstained from voting on […]
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Felling of Mature London Plane Trees on Alexandra Gardens Proposed
Cambridge City Council is Considering Felling Some of The Mature London Plane Trees on Alexandra Gardens. Three healthy, mature, century old, London Planes lining Carlyle Avenue in central Cambridge are the latest trees to be threatened with felling by the Liberal Democrat run city council. Notices which appeared on the trees on Friday the 3rd […]
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Meeting on City’s Commons Risks £86.10 Charge from Council
Cambridge City Council Charged the Cambridge Cycling Campaign £86.10 for meeting up on the Midsummer Common Cycle Path. Image Source (licence) Cambridge City Council makes hire charges for those using the city’s commons and green spaces. It makes these charges even to other public sector organisations, as well as to charity events, non-profit events and […]
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Police Not to Enforce New City Centre 20 MPH Limit
Confusing new speed limit signage in Cambridge. (Now fixed thanks to FixMyStreet). In Cambridge City Centre a 20 MPH speed limit now applies to all roads, apart from Victoria Avenue, within an area bound by the inner ring road (East Road though Lensfield Road to Fen Causeway) and the River Cam. The inner ring road […]
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Visiting Cambridge City Council to Look Behind the Accounts
File containing reports from Cambridge City Council’s accounting system relating to items I had expressed an interest prior to my visit to inspect background material supporting the published accounts. On Thursday the 22nd of July 2010 I visited Cambridge City Council’s accounts office to make use of the provision in the Audit Commission Act 1998 […]
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Cambridge City Council Blue Bin Recycling Contract
Cambridge City Council’s Contract with Viridor Waste Kent Ltd. for Dry Mixed (Blue Bin) Recycling I have previously asked questions about Cambridge City Council’s contract to sort the city’s blue bin recycling. Writing to the Executive Councillor responsible, and asking public questions at the council’s Environment Scrutiny Committee failed to get details of the arrangement […]