Congestion Charge – East Area
I was able to speak to Paul Cook, Cambridgeshire’s Head of Transport Policy and Strategy during the Congestion Charge exhibition held before Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee meeting on...
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Untouchable York Street Drug Dealers Bantering With Police
Contents of a needle exchange kit. Image: Todd Huffman (licence) Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee on the 19th of August 2010 was told of problems of drug use and drug dealing in the area...
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Councillors Assign High Priority to Spending £2.5K on Burnside Toad Crossings
Burnside, Cambridge. Councillors at Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee on the 19th of August 2010 told officers to go ahead with, and give a high priority to, installing two thousand five...
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Transparency Changes Outcome of Police Priority Vote
Coleridge Road, Cambridge. A fantastic example of why transparency is good for democratic decision making occurred at the Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee on the 19th of August 2010. Green...
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Policing East Cambridge April 2011
Policing East Cambridge April 2011 I spent the evening of the 14th of April 2011 observing Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee meeting. City and county councillors were to hold the police to...
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1 Hemingford Road Approved as Seven Tenant HMO
1 Hemingford Road Cambridge – Given Planning Permission as a Seven Tenant HMO. (Google Streetview) On Thursday the 27th of October 2011 I observed councillors at Cambridge City Council’s East Area...
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Plain Clothes PCSOs in East Cambridge?
Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee is to meet from 19.00 on December the 15th 2011. Among the agenda items is the policing report. Councillors will hold the police to account for their...
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Police Endorse Cambridge Labour’s Wet Room for Drunks Policy
On the evening of the 12th of April 2012 I observed councillors on Cambridge’s East Area Committee set the areas’s policing priorities for the upcoming four months. Problems caused by street drinkers...
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Police Failure to Answer Phone Discussed at Cambridge East Area Committee
One of the key concerns raised during the policing agenda item at Cambridge’s East Area Committee on Thursday the 2nd of August 2012 was the continued long delays being faced by people phoning...
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Tackling Problems Caused by Street Drinkers in East Cambridge
I observed Cambridge’s East Area Committee on Thursday the 2nd of August 2012. One of the key things raised, as usual for East Area Committee meetings, was crime, and other problems related to street...
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Policing East Cambridge – August 2012
During Cambridge’s East Area Committee on Thursday the 2nd of August 2012 councillors held the police to account for their performance over the previous couple of months and set new priorities. I have...
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Arrested Suspected Drug Dealers Held Until They’ve Defecated Three Times
Cambridgeshire Police Attended the South Area Committee in a Marked Police CarCambridge’s East Area Committee on the 25th of July 2013 was told that Cambridgeshire Police have adopted a policy of...
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Councillors Debate Thoday Street Cycle Parking
Thoday Street Cycle Parking Trial (Source on Cyclestreets) Councillors at Cambridge’s East Area Committee on the 28th of November 2013 were not keen on giving just one car parking space on Thoday...
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