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Cambridge City Council Cuts Identified
Cambridge City Council has released details of proposed savings which it is having to make following losses of the money from online sales of folk festival tickets and as a result of its investments in the collapsed Icelandic banks. The proposals have been made public in advance of a meeting of the council’s executive on […]
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City Centre Partnership Board – Love Cambridge
A new “City Centre Partnership Board” is being formed to help run the historic core of Cambridge City Centre; it is to be be launched on the 1st of April 2009 as an independent public/private sector partnership operating under the name of “Love Cambridge”. Currently only scant details of the make up of this new […]
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Conservators of the River Cam – January 2009
Last Thursday, the 15th of January, I went to see how decisions relating to Cambridge’s River Cam are made at a meeting of the Cam Conservators, which was held in the fantastically opulent setting of the old hall at Queens’ College. One of the main items the Conservators discussed was regulating punting in the forthcoming […]
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More Questions on the Cambridge Folk Festival Ticket Money
Following from my my response to the news that Cambridge City Council is owed £618,000 by SecureTicket UK Ltd., the company it engaged to sell Folk Festival tickets online and the questions which I asked about this money on the 8th of January, another opportunity to ask questions arose last week. At Cambridge City Council’s […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]