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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 […]
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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?”. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Cambridge City Council to Fell 73 Trees at Byron’s Pool
Cambridge City Council manage Byron’s Pool local nature reserve which is on the River Cam upstream of Grantchester, near the A14. A tiny “article” in the Winter edition of Cambridge Matters magazine with the headline of “Native tree-planting” states: 73 non-native trees are being removed from Byron’s Pool Local Nature Reserve. Removing the Sycamores and […]
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Punting Enforcement Officer
The Budget Setting Report to Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee on Monday the 19th of January 2009 reveals that despite the council looking for savings in many areas of its operations it is planning to fund an enforcement officer to “support the regulation of punting”. The explanation of the request for this […]
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The Future Management of Cambridge’s Swimming Pools
Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee on Thursday the 15th of January 2009 will be discussing an item entitled: “Leisure Management Contract September 2010 Onwards”. Not only does this item have an obscure title, but it is scheduled to be discussed in secret, with the press and public excluded. I believe what is to […]
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Cowley Road Car Boot Sale Closed
At Cambridge City Council’s meeting on the 4th of December 2008 Labour Councillor for Arbury Mike Todd-Jones asked Councillor Rod Cantrill the Executive Councillor for Customer Services and Resources an oral question: Following the move of the Park and Ride from Cowley Road to Milton, can he assure the hundreds of regular users of the […]
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Is Cambridge City Council Acquiring Technology for Pay as You Throw Taxation?
While reading though the list of new vehicles which Cambridge City Council is planning to buy in 2009/10 I came across two “”On-board weighing systems” at £6,000 each” along with the waste and recycling equipment. The Council publish on their website that the amount of waste collected by their refuse collection vehicles is weighed using […]
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Council Proposing Cuts to Pinder Service
Among the “Revised Budget Items” being presented to Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee on Monday 19 January 2009 is an entry showing the council plans to save money by removing the out of hours service it provides for responding to animals which have escaped from the city’s commons. I was very surprised […]