Particularly as I live on Milton Road in Cambridge I thought I should respond to a consultation from the Greater Cambridge City Deal on proposals to remodel the road. I’m publishing what I sent in here and will link to others’ submissions below. I am writing to respond to the current consultation on the proposed […]

I observed Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel on the 3rd of February 2016. As a joint committee of the councils in the Cambridgeshire Police’s force area the Police and Crime Panel is open to the public under the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960. As I approached the building where the meeting was to […]

Cllr Ben Shelton, acting chair of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel, has rejected a submission I had made for the “community involvement” part of the Police and Crime Panel meeting scheduled for Wednesday 3rd February, 2016. I had wanted to urge the panel to scrutinise decisions made by the Police and Crime Commissioner relating to […]

According to the police in Cambridge burglaries are often committed by burglars who re-offend when they are released from prison. Offenders do not serve their whole sentence in prison, they are released while still serving their sentence, and supposedly under supervision. In Cambridge that supervision is, as I understand it, undertaken by The Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, […]

Cambridge City Council is currently consulting on plans for 50 new affordable homes, following demolition of 26 existing dwellings at Eastfield, in East Chesterton. (Application Ref:15/2321/FUL). I have written to object as follows: The cycle and pedestrian route from Warren Road to Eastfield is very well used. I am concerned these proposals will have a […]

On Sunday the 24th of January 2016 I was on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway cycle/maintenance track and I was approached by someone wearing a Cambridgeshire County Council lanyard and a fleece jacket emblazoned with “the busway” and “park and ride”. The person who approached me told me I was on private premises and asked me […]

Dr Emma Tiffin, the Clinical Lead[1] for Mental Health at the NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has, in the context of a discussion on mental health, stated she is looking at the idea of patient wristbands. Dr Tiffin, who styles herself a “media medic”, made her rather unclear comments via Twitter on the […]

Cambridge’s major “traffic generators” including retailers, Addenbrooke’s and schools are to present their views on tackling Cambridge’s transport challenges to councillors on the Greater Cambridge City Deal board at private events. The Greater Cambridge City Deal organisation is charged with spending significant sums of public money to tackle housing, transport and educational problems in Cambridge. […]

Lessons From TalkTalk Data Loss Should Prevent Recurrence Says Police & Crime Commissioner Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright presented a report on Cybercrime to Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel on the 4th of November 2015. Graham Bright spoke about the personal data loss from TalkTalk and told the panel : we shouldn’t have […]

Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright has said Cambridge should have a by-law banning pavement parking. Mr Bright was speaking at Cambridge’s East Area Committee on the 29th of October 2015, commenting on the #badlyparkedbike Twitter hashtag initiated by Cambridge Police. The police initially used the hashtag to tweet examples of badly parked bikes; […]