As reported earlier in the year, Cambridge City Council has allocated funds to improve the Wulfstan Way shops – £101,000 to be exact. There will be a follow-up workshop on 22nd June to discuss proposals in more detail. For more information, contact Penelope Hird — [email protected].

Have you visited the Nightingale Avenue rec’ lately? The City Council has put lots of extra kit in over the last few years — new climbing frames and spinners in the children’s playground, a second tennis court, a wheel-friendly path round the park, and most recently, a multi-use games area that can be used for […]

This morning to church – not unusual for me on a Sunday morning, except today I worshipped at Holy Trinity in the Cambridge city centre instead of my ‘local’, St John the Evangelist. The occasion was the Mott Sermon, an historic endowed sermon, preached today by the Rt Revd David Thomson, Bishop of Huntingdon. Mr […]

Queen Edith’s young people have been taking outdoor cookery classes as part of the City Council’s CHYYPS (Children and Young People Participation Service) this summer. On Tuesday, I was invited to go and  sample the results. Despite an unseasonally rainy day (what passes for summer in this country!) there were about 20 children chopping and […]

Here are the results for the Queen Edith’s city council election and the South Cambridgeshire parliamentary election held on 6th May 2010: Queen Edith’s City Council seat Jean Swanson (Lib Dem) 2129 — a new record! Vincenzo Marino (Con) 1221 Jonathan Goodacre (Lab) 541 Brian Westcott (Green) 334 Carol Jackson (UKIP) 122 Lib Dem majority […]

Cambridge City Council is to explore a community self-provision scheme on land that it owns in Orchard Park. Potential individual owners will be invited to plan and design the scheme, working with the Council and a development partner. This innovative approach to housing was approved last Monday at a meeting of my council committee, the […]

In Waitrose this morning, I encountered a dismayed City Council tree officer, who told me six newly planted trees on Hauxton Road had been chopped down overnight. What a waste of taxpayers’ money! This was County Council land, but there has been no consultation with the City, who planted the trees. Any information on who […]

Cambridge councillors at the Lib Dem party conference came home from Birmingham with an award for our work on improving transport from the Local Government Association Liberal Democrat Group. It is the ‘Improving Transport Award 2010’. Although the County Council is the main transport authority, the City Council were praised for some of our innovative […]

Ambitious plans to revitalise a Cambridge shopping centre will be unveiled on Thursday evening (March 11). The scheme for the parade of shops at Wulfstan Way is being developed following consultation last summer with local residents (see picture), including one survey carried out at the local primary school.   Projects, costing around £250,000 which include […]

Cambridgeshire County Council’s Highways Department has promised thorough repairs to the potholes in our area next week. Queen Edith’s Focus Team member Jean Swanson is keeping a list of all potholes in the Queen Edith’s area and passing them on to the County Council.  Help us make sure they don’t miss any by sending us the details of […]