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by aldc on 18 June, 2016
THANK YOU to the hundreds of local people who supported our petition for a station at Addenbrooke’s. We believe a station on the Biomedical Campus could play an important part in reducing car movements to the area, and consequently commuter and visitor parking. Infrastructure consultants John Laing has been working on a feasibility study and […]
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The Cambridge Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto for Cambridge City Council – click here to download.
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 10 February, 2016
The Local Government Boundary Commission has been reviewing the county council divisions, to reduce the number of councillors and partly to even out numbers. Subject to approval in Parliament, Queen Edith’s is to be merged with Trumpington for county council purposes. The new double ward will run from Chaucer Road and Clifton Way in the […]
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 10 January, 2016
The Nine Wells nature reserve is under threat because there is a risk that land just 30 metres away from it may be taken out of the green belt. Liberal Democrat councillors have launched a petition calling for land close to the Nine Wells to be kept as Green Belt in order to protect this […]
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 2 October, 2015
Cambridgeshire County Council‘s Cycling Team and its contractor will be coming to Queen Edith’s on October 5th to report on the slow-running Hills Road cycle lanes. Or should that read ‘the slow lanes’? The project was scheduled to take 37 weeks but we are in week 36 already and they still haven’t finished the first […]
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 24 July, 2015
Last weekend the County Council made a start on tarmacking the new cycle lanes on Hills Road – and it is a great relief that the work has begun. They have completed the section between Holbrook and Glebe Roads, and cyclists have been riding on it this week. They plan to do the next […]
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 22 July, 2015
Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats yesterday called for full independent scrutiny of the failed deal with Kora to run part of Cambridge Central Library. In a full debate at Shire Hall yesterday, we insisted that an independent review is the only way to regain public trust after the disaster of the Regus-Kora misadventure, when the County was […]
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 18 July, 2015
Last night’s surprise thunderstorms have caused flooding at a number of local schools, including Morley Memorial in Queen Edith’s, where some classrooms have been left without power and with wrecked flooring. The headteacher, Ms Brown, has written to parents saying, ‘Unfortunately our school has suffered significant flood damage as a result of last night’s storms. […]
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 13 July, 2015
At long last, work has begun to instal lights on the bridleway along the Guided Busway. This is the culmination of a campaign that started in 2012, with a LightTheCycleway! petition presented to the Conservative County Council Cabinet requesting lighting on the southern section of the Busway, between the railway station and Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Trenching […]
Read more Leave a commentby aldc on 2 July, 2015
Liberal Democrats on Cambridgeshire County Council continue to defend Cambridge Library against the Council’s proposals to let Regus subsidiary Kora open an Enterprise Centre on the third floor. The call-in of the Highways & Community Infrastructure Committee (HCI) decision succeeded and the LEC proposal went to the County Council’s General Purposes Committee (GPC) in March. Cllr Roger Hickford […]
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