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Penny Ferry – June 2008
Cllr Liddle, In your absence (reported as being due to a collapsed ceiling in your front room) at yesterday’s North Area Committee you were appointed as to “champion” the environmental improvement scheme for the car park, hailing way and green area at Penny Ferry, Chesterton. I think this scheme has enormous potential to rejuvenate this […]
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June 2008 North Area Committee – Cambridge
I attended the 19th June 2008 North Area Committee meeting tonight. I think the interesting decisions made were: 1. To demand from officers a better minuting of the element of the previous meeting where police priorities were set. ` 2. To set a fixed time 19.30 for the policing agenda item at the next meeting, […]
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Minutes of the East Chesterton ASB Meeting
Following a public meeting with the police on Anti-Social behaviour in East Chesterton, Cambridge on the 2nd of April 2008 I requested a copy of the minutes from the council’s ASB section – they invited attendees to do this at the meeting. Two months after my original request, and following a number of emails to […]
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Policing – Stop and Account, Honour Crime and Local Priorities
I decided to write to Kevin Wilkins, County Councillor (£6840/Year), David Howarth MP Staff member (Another job paid for by taxpayers) and Member of the Police Authority (£7631/Year), as he told me on April the 20th he would look into the operation of Stop and Account in Cambridge, I have received a response from the […]
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In Advance of June’s North Area Committee
In advance of the upcoming Cambridge City Council North Area Committee meeting on the 19th of June 2008 I have written to some local councillors to make some observations. In summary : The meeting papers are appalling – the minutes of the previous meeting omit the local policing priorities which were agreed by the committee. […]
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Setting Local Police Priorities in Cambridge City
I spoke at on the subject of setting police priorities at Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee Meeting on the 6th of March 2008, Councillor Nimmo-Smith committed to respond. Prior to the next North Area Committee meeting on the 17th April 2008 I reminded Councillor Nimmo-Smith of his commitment but he was not able to […]
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New pedestrian maps for Cambridge city centre
My comments on the proposed new pedestrian maps for central Cambridge (http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/content/arts-and-entertainment/finding-your-way.en) : 0. If there are to be any distances on the signs they should be in miles, (or minutes walk), and certainly not kilometers or meters. 1. Which, if any, existing maps and signs are being removed? I note a node is planned […]
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Abbey Road – Riverside – Promenade – Cambridge
Plans for a proposed closing of the junction of Abbey Road and Riverside to traffic, and the narrowing of Riverside and the construction of a pedestrian promenade were displayed in the window of the Renault Garage on Newmarket Road earlier this week. I have looked on the Cambridge City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council websites […]
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Cambridge Matters – Distribution on Election Day
To: Elections @ cambridge dot gov dot uk, copied to the local opposition on the City Council. I wasn’t very impressed to have the City Council Newsletter – “Cambridge Matters” delivered by hand though my door on the morning of election day. It’s full of charts and articles trying to show how great the current […]
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Oakington IMB Interview
I was today interviewed as part of the application process to become a member of the Independent Monitoring Board at Oakington Immigration Removal Centre. The interview broadly followed the published questions for the interview, (http://www.imb.gov.uk/docs/DC_10_04__Annex_C_.pdf ) to which I had prepared responses. I was impressed by the fact that those interviewing me, the vice-chair of […]