The next South Area meeting is on Monday 22nd July, at the Cherry Hinton Village Centre. It starts at 7 p.m. with an Open Forum when anybody can ask a question or raise an issue with councillors. Although the area meeting cannot always sort things out on the spot, it can request action from council […]

The Queen Edith’s Lib Dem Focus Team has a new councillor, Cllr Colin McGerty. In the City Council election on 3rd May, Colin polled 1,259 votes to become our new city councillor for the next four years. Here is the result: Colin McGerty, Liberal Democrat: 1259 votes (44.2%) Dan Greef, Labour: 827 votes (29.0%) Manas […]

Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council have prepared a draft Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for Land North of Cherry Hinton. An eight-week consultation period on the draft Development Framework will run from 9am on 7 August 2017 to 5pm on 2 October 2017 The two councils will be holding two public […]

Queen Edith’s councillor Jenny Page-Croft has probed the City Council administration on whether the city would be ready to handle a major disaster such as the awful Grenfell Towers inferno, and asked about the quality and reliability of the City Council’s own fire safety precautions. See the Cambridge News report, and Jenny’s question: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/how-would-cambridge-tackle-grenfell-13329107. Jenny […]

The agenda for South Area Committee, Monday, 17th July, 2017, 7.00 pm has just been published. Meeting venue: Meeting Room – CHVLC – Cherry Hinton Village Leisure Centre, Colville Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, CB1 9EJ The following items are included in the agenda: 1 Election of Chair and Vice Chair – SAC 2 Welcome, Introduction […]

Queen Edith’s councillor George Pippas is the new Mayor of Cambridge, following a unanimous vote by city councillors at The Cambridge Guildhall on Thursday. He was proposed by Cllr Rod Cantrill and seconded by Cllr Peter Sarris. He takes over the role from Cllr Jeremy Benstead, who represented the city over the past year. George […]

Amanda Taylor was re-elected on Thursday, to serve  Queen Edith’s for a further four years on Cambridgeshire County Council. The result, announced just before noon on Friday, was as follows: Amanda Taylor, Liberal Democrat 1678 Adam Pounds, Labour 962 Manas Deb, Conservative 752 Joel Chalfen, Green 226 Majority: 716 Turnout: 47% – the highest in […]

Amidst all the excitement of an impending General Election and a metro mayor election, we have elections on 4th May for the county council and for an executive mayor for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Liberal Democrat Cllr Amanda Taylor is our candidate once again and asks for your support to represent Queen Edith’s for a further […]

The Police & Crime Commissioner will be visiting the next South Area meeting with the neighbourhood policing team and giving a report. The police priorities for the coming season will be set. Also on the agenda are transport, grants and community facilities. The meeting is at St John the Evangelist Church on Hills Road on […]

Liberal Democrat county councillor for Queen Edith’s, Cllr Amanda Taylor, is looking forward to taking part in a community hustings event, hosted by the Queen Edith’s Community Forum. Amanda and other candidates will be at St John’s Church on 20th April to answer your questions about transport, libraries, care services, education and other issues. 7-830pm […]