Cambridgeshire County Council’s streetlighting contractor Balfour Beatty will soon be returning to Queen Edith’s for the next phase of streetlight replacements. This is part of a countywide PFI programme to change all the streetlights in Cambridgeshire to a new, more energy-efficient type of light that will deliver energy savings of nearly 50%. The new lights […]

Cambridgeshire County Council’s streetlighting contractor Belfour Betty will be replacing streetlights in Hills Road, to conform to new British Standards for traffic routes. There will be no fewer lights than at present, but the new columns will be further from the kerb, and spaced out differently. The streetlighting works are being synchronized with the construction […]

Queen Edith’s, Cherry Hinton and Trumpington come together at the South Area meetings approximately once every two months. The next one is on Monday, February 2nd and will be in Queen Edith’s, at St John’s Church on Hills Road. Begin with the culture: We are promised an exhibition of a new community art project. Artist […]

The next South Area meeting is Monday 2nd February, at St John’s Church, Hills Road and will include the results of the 20mph speed limit consultation for the south of the city. There will also be a police report, an update on Section 106 projects and decisions on environmental services priorities. The agenda is due […]

The Queen Edith’s Liberal Democrat Focus Team have been successful in winning County Council funding for three local highways projects: road safety measures near the schools in Glebe and Holbrook Roads improvements to the entrance to Purbeck Road (next to Hills Road Sixth Form College) mending of broken pavements near Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Local councillors Amanda, […]

Many Queen Edith’s people shop at Budgens at Adkin’s Corner, just outside the Queen Edith’s ward in Coleridge ward, and represented by four Labour councillors, including the Labour Leader of Cambrdge City Council, Cllr Lewis Herbert. While the supermarket itself is modern and pleasant to shop in, its car park was full of monster potholes. […]

On Tuesday, Cambridgeshire County Council‘s all-Conservative Cabinet approved bringing in parking charges at the five Park & Ride sites in Cambridge. Yesterday, I was one of a group of opposition councillors (Liberal Democrats plus a few Labour) who called the decision in, to have it looked at by a committee comprising councillors from all parties […]

A hallmark of the Liberal Democrats’ administration at Cambridge City Council was the insistence that the new neighbourhoods created on the southern fringe of the city must be imaginative and distinctive in their design and layout and constructed in a sustainable way using good quality materials. Our colleagues in Trumpington believe that the efforts that […]

The next South Area meeting is 23rd June, at the Cherry Hinton Village Centre. The meeting begins at 7pm with an Open Forum, at which anyone can make a brief statement or ask questions of councillors and officers. The first item of business will be to elect a new chair. At present, the chair is […]

Thinking of spring cleaning your house and garden? Have a few things that need to go in a skip, or some pre-loved things need need a new home? The City Council’s Community Development team is providing skips in the car park of Queen Edith’s Chapel and at the junction of Tillyard Way and Spalding Way, […]