Category: Article

  • Cambridge City Council Tears Up Budget and Looks for Cuts

    The collapse of icelandic banks in which Cambridge City Council had invested £9m left a major hole in the council’s finances. While the government had instructed local authorities not to budget for the loss of the capital, they had not made any allowance for loss of interest which councils had expected to be paid. The […]

  • More Threats to the Green Space on Jesus Green

    A number of items of proposed work on Jesus Green were taken to Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 15th of January 2009 for approval. These are all to be funded by “section 106” money which comes from payments developers make to the city council in lieu of providing community, social and […]

  • Cambridge Homeless Offered Emergency Accommodation in Peterborough

    A Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 15th of January 2009 the council’s homelessness strategy was discussed. Preventing homelessness, and helping homeless people, particularly those sleeping on the streets, has been something Cambridge City Council has done well over the last few years. Though there have been a few blips, such as […]

  • Midsummer Common Footpath – Auckland Road

    The prospect of replacing or resurfacing the footpath on the edge of Midsummer Common between Auckland Road and Parsonage Street was discussed at Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area Committee on the 8th of January 2009. The path’s surface is broken up and the council have decided to improve it. The various options are all about […]

  • Trees to be Felled on Midsummer Common

    Barry Higgs and Dick Baxter of the Friends of Midsummer Common attended the West Central Area committee on the 8th of January 2009, they reported that on the day before they had been shown around the common by a City Council Officer who identified a number of trees to be felled. They asked if there […]

  • Introducing Co-Mingled Recycling to Cambridge

    On the 13th of January 2009 I attended the Cambridge City Council meeting where a decision was made to go ahead with plans to replace the recycling boxes currently used in homes in the city with a third wheelie bin. This new bin, which will be dark blue, will be able to take mixed recyclables […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Not to Prosecute In Case of Rottweiller Seriously Injuring Cambridge Postman

    Since the day of the awful attack on a postman by dangerous rottweilers in Gazeley Lane, Trumpington, Cambridge in December 2008 the police have been hung up on the issue of weather the attack occurred on a public road or not. At first the police said they were investigating if the attack was on a […]

  • Policing West and Central Cambridge – January 2009

    I attended Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee on the 8th of January 2009. One of the main items on the agenda was “Safer Neighborhoods”, the meeting’s chair was almost tripped up by the cryptic title and had to ask the committee manager what the policing item was called saying: “Is it Safer Communities?”. […]

  • Asking Questions About Money Owed to Cambridge City Council from Folk Festival Online Ticket Sales

    I attended Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee on the 8th of January 2009. During the public forum I asked a series of questions about the Cambridge City Council news release stating the council is owed £618,000 by SecureTicket UK and is taking legal action in the High Court in an attempt to recover […]

  • Cambridge City Council Owed 618K by Folk Festival Ticket Seller

    On the 7th of January 2009 Cambridge City Council issued a news release stating that the council was owed £618,000 from ticket sales for the Folk Festival which the ticket seller “SecureTicket UK” was due to pay in August 2008 but had still not been received by the council. The council has initiated legal proceedings […]