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 […]

The Liberal Democrats are campaigning for a railway station at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. This part of Cambridge is blighted by heavy traffic and parking and residents have made it very clear that they want it sorted out. With predictions of an extra 20,000 people working on the Biomedical Campus, things are set to get even worse. […]

Cambridgeshire County Council has advertised  a new traffic regulation order for double yellow lines to protect the junction between Beaumont Road and Almoners Avenue. It will ban parking for 38 metres to the south-east, and 66 metres to the north, as shown on the plan. Beaumont Road, St Ediths – Parking restrictions If you want […]

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 […]

  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 […]

It was good to see our new PCSO Michaela Bright at the recent Queen Edith’s networking lunch. She talked about how she has been making contacts in the local community and went through this season’s police priorities, set at the last South Area meeting: To combat drug dealing; To combat ASB on Cambridge Lakes To […]

Builders are giving rise to concern in Sedley Taylor Road and last week residents requested my help in addressing issues around parking and anti-social noise. Cars and larger vehicles are reported as parking on yellow lines and blocking driveways and pavements. I have taken this up with the local police and the County Council, the […]

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 […]

The next South Area meeting is on 29th June, this time at the Cherry Hinton Village Centre in Colville Road. As usual, the meeting starts off at 7pm with an Open Forum at which anyone can speak on a local issue, or ask a question of councillors. Issues have often been raised during these forums […]

The South Cambridge police have just released their report on activities over the first five months of 2015. The have been focussing on priorities set in February by the South Area Committee: the supply of Class A drugs; burglaries; speeding, and anti-social cycling and parking, especially outside schools. Here is their report: Police report June […]