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Posted on Monday 30 June 2014Monday 30 June 2014

Parking Spot

Few subjects get people worked up as much in Queen Edith’s as parking, and it’s not surprising, because the attitude of so many drivers is that the law, courtesy and consideration are things that only apply to other people.

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Posted on Monday 23 June 2014Monday 23 June 2014

What are the Area Committee Meetings for?

I raise this point because I think the council should either make this clearer, or change the format of the meetings to make them more public-focused.

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Posted on Friday 6 June 2014Friday 6 June 2014

Unmissable local walk by Allan Brigham this Sunday

“The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” will be looking at how successful we’ve been (or haven’t been!) at making this area an attractive place to live.

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Posted on Thursday 15 May 2014Friday 16 May 2014

A Look Ahead to the 2014 City Council Election in Queen Edith’s

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had the chance to communicate with all of the candidates. Here’s what I’ve found out.

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Posted on Monday 5 May 2014Monday 5 May 2014

An independent guide to the Cambridge City Council Election 2014 in Queen Ediths

Simply by reading the page I’ve put together, voters of Queen Edith’s will have far more idea about what they’re voting for than residents in any of the other 13 wards of the city.

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Posted on Monday 28 April 2014Tuesday 29 April 2014

Could Queen Edith’s provide a shock election result again?

In 2012, Queen Edith’s provided the most surprising result in the whole of Cambridge when it elected its first-ever Labour councillor: could it provide a shock again in 2014?

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Posted on Thursday 24 April 2014Thursday 24 April 2014

Four council candidates standing in Queen Edith’s

Indications are that there’s going to be more competition than last year, as I’ve already had information from three candidates through my letterbox.

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Posted on Wednesday 23 April 2014Wednesday 23 April 2014

Surprise as Council approves redevelopment of 241 Hills Road

Councillors surprisingly went against the advice of their own officers and approved a proposed development on the corner of Hills Avenue and Hills Road.

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Posted on Thursday 6 March 2014

Thoughts about the proposed Hills Road cycle lanes

The main decision to be made seems to be whether to go for a cycle path partitioned off from the road by a kerb and posts, or one which has no barrier (but is wider).

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Posted on Monday 3 March 2014

Hills Road cycle lanes: exhibition this Thursday

Armed with a fair amount of government money, the council is planning to create wider and safer cycleways which go far beyond painting lines on the road.

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Posted on Friday 14 February 2014Saturday 18 October 2014

Residents speak out, but City Council votes through Local Plan

The City Council met on Thursday to vote on its “Local Plan”, which will direct development in the area for the next 15 years. The result was a formality.

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Posted on Tuesday 11 February 2014Tuesday 11 February 2014

Council to listen to residents about Green Belt plans

A special meeting of the City Council takes place this Thursday to consider two petitions objecting to aspects of the proposed Local Plan for the area.

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Posted on Friday 7 February 2014Monday 10 February 2014

“You would think it were not green belt, but it is.”

The clique of county councillors called the “cabinet” has been stopped in enthusiastically leaping on the development opportunities looming off Wort’s Causeway.

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Posted on Tuesday 28 January 2014Friday 7 February 2014

Worts Causeway development marches on

The County Council has today been ensuring it plays its part in facilitating the locally unwanted development on the Green Belt in Queen Edith’s.

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Posted on Monday 13 January 2014Tuesday 14 January 2014

Not a great night for our local councillors

Last night I attended the first “South Area Committee” meeting of the year. I felt many of the 20-30 members of the public there came away unimpressed.

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Posted on Sunday 15 September 2013Sunday 15 September 2013

How to object to the Council’s draft local plan ? a guide

The Save The Cambridge Green Belt Campaign has produced this short guide to the otherwise rather baffling process of commenting on the local Council’s draft local plan.

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Posted on Thursday 12 September 2013Sunday 6 October 2013

Park & Ride Parking Charges: a small victory for democracy

Last week I had a bit of a rant here about a County Council decision which was simply a bad idea, yet looked like it was going to be implemented anyway. In a small victory for democracy today, the proposal was at least sent for discussion.

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Posted on Monday 9 September 2013

EF Language School Developers introduce themselves

The developers have commenced a charm offensive by delivering a “Residents Newsletter” to neighbouring properties, explaining what they’re doing and how long it’s going to take to complete.

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Posted on Thursday 5 September 2013Sunday 6 October 2013

Parking Charges at the Park and Ride: more parking chaos on the way

Today’s news that our County Council wants to start charging for parking at the Park and Ride sites is not just objectionable, it’s idiotic.

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Posted on Monday 2 September 2013Saturday 28 March 2015

Campaign to save the Cambridge Green Belt website

The campaign to save the Cambridge Green Belt now has a website at www.greenbeltsos.org.uk which includes a link to a petition on the subject at Change.org.

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Posted on Sunday 1 September 2013Sunday 1 September 2013

New segregated cycleways for Hills Road on the way

Cambridgeshire County Council was recently successful in an application for ?4 million of funding to increase cycling in the city, with one scheme aiming to reconfigure Hills Road to provide segregated bike lanes.

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Posted on Saturday 13 July 2013Saturday 13 July 2013

Former Councillor weighs in with Wort’s Causeway criticism

Former Queen Edith’s county councillor Geoff Heathcock has condemned the approval of the Wort’s Causeway development in no uncertain terms.

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Posted on Tuesday 2 July 2013Monday 30 September 2013

Councillor Swanson’s position on development in the Green Belt

I have now been sent the text of the speech made by Queen Edith’s councillor Jean Swanson outlining her concerns about development on the Green Belt, but explaining her position on supporting the Wort’s Causeway development.

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Posted on Saturday 29 June 2013Monday 1 July 2013

City Council refuses to remove Wort’s Causeway development from Local Plan

At a special council meeting on Thursday night, none of the city’s Labour or Liberal Democrat councillors were prepared to vote to delete the two Wort’s Causeway sites from the Local Plan.

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Posted on Thursday 20 June 2013

Further reports add to case against Worts Causeway development

A number of additional documents have been sent to us which will be of interest to anyone following the case of the Worts Causeway development.

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Posted on Wednesday 5 June 2013Friday 1 May 2015

New “Queen Edith” pub on Wulfstan Way gets go-ahead

The go-ahead has been given for a new pub in the heart of the area, replacing the old Queen Edith pub on Wulfstan Way.

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Posted on Friday 17 May 2013Wednesday 22 May 2013

Resident’s letter demolishes case for Wort’s Causeway development

An excellent letter from local resident Jeremy Jones takes the council’s case for building on the Green Belt to task, on the grounds of it being based on bad data, misinterpreting national guidelines, and conceding to demands too easily.

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Posted on Monday 13 May 2013Wednesday 22 May 2013

Bad news for the Wort’s Causeway campaign

The council has decided that development on the sites concerned (“GB1 and GB2”) is unavoidable if the required new housing targets are to be met.

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Posted on Wednesday 8 May 2013Wednesday 22 May 2013

EF Language School Development Before Council Committee

In which we find that the proposal for the revised EF Language School development is scheduled to go before the council’s South Area Committee on Thursday 9 May.

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Posted on Friday 3 May 2013Friday 3 May 2013

Cambridgeshire County Council elections, May 2013: What happened

In which we learn that the voters of Queen Edith’s have elected Amanda Taylor to be their County Councillor for the next four years.

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Posted on Tuesday 23 April 2013Thursday 25 April 2013

Cambridgeshire County Council elections, May 2013: What’s likely to happen?

In the third and final part of my look at the forthcoming County Council election here in Queen Edith’s, it’s time to assess the candidates themselves.

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Posted on Thursday 18 April 2013Tuesday 2 July 2013

Cambridgeshire County Council elections, May 2013: our candidates

In which, with two weeks to the 2013 Cambridgeshire County Council elections, we see how much we can find out about the four candidates asking for our vote.

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Posted on Wednesday 3 April 2013Wednesday 3 April 2013

EF Language School revised proposals are now online

In which the revised (April 2013) proposals for the development of the EF Language School on Hills Road become available at the City Council Planning Website.

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Posted on Friday 29 March 2013Wednesday 20 April 2016

Queen Edith’s County Council Election 2013 Guide

In which we look at the background to the forthcoming Cambridgeshire County Council elections and wonder if it’s worth voting when the compounded rural vote is likely to continue to dictate the majority on the council.

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Posted on Tuesday 26 March 2013Tuesday 26 March 2013

The case against any Wort’s Causeway housing development

In which we see what a thoroughly well researched argument against a housing development looks like.

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Posted on Thursday 14 March 2013Sunday 17 March 2013

EF Language School revised plans revealed

In which the EF Language School returns with a new set of plans for developing its Hills Road site, revealed to the public at an exhibition evening on 14 March.

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Posted on Wednesday 6 March 2013Wednesday 6 March 2013

EF Language School returns with a different proposal

There is to be a public exhibition of the proposals at the language school on Thursday 14th March, from 7-9pm. It would probably be in the interests of all local residents to attend.

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Posted on Friday 1 February 2013Monday 4 February 2013

Campaign objecting to development on Wort’s Causeway gathers momentum

The local campaign to “Save the Green Belt” and specifically to object to housing development on Wort’s Causeway is gathering momentum. A meeting of many of those concerned was held on 30 January, and I’ve paraphrased the minutes here for the benefit of anyone who couldn’t attend or who would still like to get involved.

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Posted on Sunday 20 January 2013Friday 1 February 2013

Building on the Green Belt at Wort’s Causeway

A council review has identified six sites around the city which it feels could be released from the Green Belt; the two largest areas earmarked as having potential for housing are both within Queen Edith’s ward, either side of Wort’s Causeway.

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Posted on Saturday 15 December 2012Saturday 15 December 2012

Parking Plan Consultation online response form available

Although the County Council’s long-awaited South Area Parking Review proposals were a huge disappointment after so much time, with very little of real substance, at least they’re giving residents the chance to express their views.

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Posted on Wednesday 7 November 2012Wednesday 24 April 2013

Parking Plan to be revealed on 14 November

Whether it’s having nowhere to park ourselves, or having our driveways (and roads!) blocked by inconsiderate parking, the topic affects the majority of people in Queen Edith’s.

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Posted on Friday 19 October 2012Friday 19 October 2012

Boundary Commission revisions make Queen Edith’s position more illogical

The arbitrary allocation of Queen Edith’s ward to the South Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency, rather than the Cambridge city constituency, looks even more ridiculous in light of the latest boundary commission proposals.

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Posted on Thursday 16 August 2012Sunday 26 August 2012

Council refuses Planning Permission for EF Language School demolition

In which Cambridge City Council does the right thing for the residents, the City and its environment.

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Posted on Friday 3 August 2012

Response from NRAP Architects to the Council’s recommendation

In which the architects argue with the many points made by the Council Planning Officer when recommending that the application is withdrawn.

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Posted on Sunday 22 July 2012

Thumbs Down for the EF Language School development from CambridgePPF

In which Cambridge Past, Present & Future objects to the EF Language School development with reference to a number of points in the Cambridge Local Plan.

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Posted on Tuesday 17 July 2012Tuesday 17 July 2012

Parking in Queen Edith’s

Streets in the west of Queen Edith’s are being transformed into an overflow car park for Addenbrooke’s and Hills Road Sixth Form College.

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Posted on Friday 13 July 2012

Letter from Councillor Birtles in Cambridge News

In which Councillor Sue Birtles has a letter about the proposed EF Language School development published in the Cambridge News.

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Posted on Thursday 12 July 2012Thursday 12 July 2012

City Council recommends EF Language School withdraw their proposal

In which Senior Planning Officer Sophie Pain says: “the proposal cannot be supported because of a number of concerns”.

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Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2012Wednesday 11 July 2012

Council Team comes out against supporting the development of the EF Language School

In which the Cambridge City Council Urban Design and Conservation Team objects to the development in a series of well-argued points.

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Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2012

Council Design & Conservation Panel Meeting Report

In which the City Council’s Design & Conservation Panel describes the EF Language School development as “a confident and assertive introduction to the streetscene”.

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