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. […]

The local police report three assaults in the south of Cambridge over the past week, including one near Addenbrooke’s Hospital. There haven’t been any house burglaries or car break-ins in Queen Edith’s, but there have been cycle thefts near Addenbrooke’s, as well as in Hills Avenue and Hills Road. As cycle thefts have gone up […]

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 […]

Today I attended Cambridgeshire County Council‘s Economy & Environment Committee, which was voting (for the second time this year) on segregated cycle lanes for Hills and Huntingdon Roads. The project had first been considered in May but deferred on safety grounds, including many raised by myself on behalf of local residents. I called for a […]

One of the Conservatives’ last actions when they were running Cambridgeshire County Council was to vote through parking charges at the Cambridge Park & Ride sites. Now they have announced that the charges will not be coming in until mid-July, due to ‘technical difficulties’. This is one council delay that no one will complain about! […]

Cambridgeshire County Council‘s new Economy & Environment Committee met for the first time and showed what it is made of. One of the first decisions it had to take was whether or not to proceed with the officers’ recommendations on new segregated cycle lanes for Hills Road and Huntingdon Road between the Long Road and […]

Local Lib Dems are campaigning to make sure the new cycleways on Hills Road keep the road and pavement safe for bus passengers and pedestrians as well as cyclists. Thanks to the Lib Dems in government, Cambridge has been given £8.2m of government funding for investment in improving cycle schemes. The County Council has been […]

I have been advised that there will need to be more sewer-related works on Trumpington Road. Anglian Water Engineers report that the sewer has collapsed again in the left filter lane to Long Road on the outbound section of Trumpington Road from the City. You may have noticed tankers emptying the sewer over the past […]

For nearly 20 years, Park and Ride has played a vital role in keeping traffic out of Cambridge city centre and in encouraging people to use buses. Until now, the parking has been free, although people have paid for the Park & Ride buses. The County Council Conservatives have now decided to bring in parking […]