The new gentleman curate at my parish church (St John the Evangelist, Hills Road, Cambridge) spoke in his sermon last Sunday of the feeling that Christmas has ‘started’ when you’ve been to a carol concert. While Christmas started earlier for me (lots to do!)  I very much enjoyed the Festival of Lessons & Carols at St […]

The Mayor of Cambridge visited Wulfstan Way on Tuesday and was met by a crowd of 150-200 people outside the shops. The lights came on as planned last night and all worked. The Mayor stayed and sang carols with us, listened to local school and church choirs and hears a short talk about how Christmas […]

Gritter in Cambridge Conservative county councillors have been holding a Gritting Review.  Here is a summary of changes we have heard about to date: Cycleways: good news and bad news: A quad-bike will be gritting cycleways in the city centre.  This is the good news, but the bad news is that major out-of-town cycleways will […]

What’s the Council doing about the snow? May I draw your attention to two parts of Cambridge City Council’s website about snow: Firstly information on what the County and the City Councils are doing to respond to the weather, and also information on what residents can do is available on the Snow and Ice advice page. Secondly, […]

It was standing room only at Homerton College on Thursday as the Cambridge South Area Committee debated a planning application by Punch Taverns to demolish the Queen Edith Public House and replace it with housing. Seven councillors voted unanimously to throw out the application.  They insisted on the value of the pub to the community and […]

There is to be a consultation on extending the Cambridge Leisure Park cumulative impact zone to include Hills Road to Purbeck Road and Cherry Hinton Road to Clifton Road. Designating an area a CIZ recognizes the effect of alcohol-related disorder  arising from a concentration of licensed premises in one place and makes it unlikely any […]

Thanks to the local resident who was walking in Pigs Passage and told me a Raleigh bike has been abandoned in the allotments between Holbrook and   Glebe Roads. I have reported this to our City Ranger John McAspurn and the bike has now been collected. Do click on the pig before you go! * so […]

Cambridge City Councillors are seeking assurances that county Conservatives will not close libraries. Liberal Democrat city councillors put down a motion at a meeting of Cambridge City Council on Thursday (Thursday, October 21) demanding that Cambridgeshire County Council rule out closures in the libraries review. Now city council Leader Sian Reid will write to Cambridgeshire […]

Parking is difficult in Cambridge – even if you are on a bike. The City Council has improved  provision recently; my own favourite place to park now is the Grand Arcade cycle park, next to the car park. As well as a few hundred Sheffield racks, the cycle park has a bike repair shop and […]

Cambridgeshire County Council is reviewing the library service in Cambridge (see previous post). To our great alarm, the Tories who run the County Council have refused to rule out closing libraries. As part of their decision-making process they have been doing counts as well as consulting. There have already been two counts at Rock Road […]