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Council Reneges On Separation Pledge for Highfields Caldecote
When I wrote my open letter to Cllr Burkitt with regard to the A428 Busway and explained how the residents of Highfields felt let down by the Board decision, little did I know that worse was to come. Could it get any worse? Oh yes it can. How and why? Its to do with Bourn […]
Open Letter to Cllr Francis Burkitt on City Deal Board Decision for A428 Busway
As we know already, the City Deal Board decided that the route to consider for the A428 Busway is the Option 3/3a that will either go south of Hardwick and Caldecote from Madingley Mulch roundabout (Option 3) or along the old A428 St Neots Road (Option 3a). They also published a letter in the Cambridge News […]
City Deal Board Justification For Its Poor Choices
Having made what some of think are the worst decisions for the Options for the A428 Busway, the 3 Voting Members of the Board have attempted to justify their reasoning in an article published in the Cambridge News on 18th October 2016. Cllr Burkitt sent District Councillors the full text, which I reproduce in this […]
City Deal Board Choses Worst Option for Proposed A428 Busway
One of the projects that the Greater Cambridgeshire City Deal Board is pushing very hard is the provision of better transport links on the A428 corridor. This ofcourse is because the City and South Cambs want to show that their plans to put 3500 houses on Bourn Airfield and 2300 on West Cambourne is viable […]
Examination of SCDC Local Development Plan reports Preliminary Findings
SCDC revealed today that it had received a letter from Laura Graham, the Planning Inspector examining the Draft Local Development Plan. In her letter Ms Graham pointed out some inconsistencies in the plan as it stands and that the way in which the Council’s evidence base was presented did not give a clear understanding of […]
South Cambridgeshire announces strategic partnership with Huntingdonshire and City Councils
Tuesday 1 July 2014 Over half a million pounds to be saved as first steps in strategic partnership announced Sharing building control, legal and ICT services could save neighbouring councils over half a million pounds under a planned new strategic partnership. In cabinet papers published today (Tuesday 1 July) by South Cambridgeshire […]
Tumi Hawkins re-elected in Caldecote Ward South Cambridgeshire 2014 Election
The result is official – I have held onto my seat in the recently concluded local elections in South Cambridgeshire District. The turnout was 46.15% of the electorate and it was good to see so many people turn out, despite the sometimes awful weather that we experienced during the day. The final count took […]
UKIP Councillor and MEP Candidate Advocates Discrimination Against Women And Gay People
Hardly a day goes by without some politician being hauled up by the press for saying something they shouldn’t have said. This item about the UKIP Lewes Councillor Donna Edmunds came to my attention as it is trending on facebook, albeit with a slightly distorted version. So I figured I better investigate to get the […]
Superfast Broadband Finally Arrives in Caldecote
It has been a long time coming …. and now I am pleased to say that superfast broadband has now reached parts of Highfields Caldecote where it previously seemed to have missed or been witheld! BT eventually got its act together following the visit to Caldecote by Mr Mike Galvin, Managing Director Network Investment, BT […]
Lib Dems Condemn Tory Plan to Cut Dial-A-Ride Funding as “Heartless”
A Tory plan to cut funding for the county’s Dial-a-Ride and other community transport schemes which could lead to their total collapse has been attacked as “brutal and heartless” by Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats. They say the move, in the Conservatives’ proposed County Council budget would leave elderly and disabled people isolated and vulnerable across […]