Cllr Katie Porrer - a record of action for Market Ward

Katie has lived in Market Ward, near the Grafton centre, for nearly 18 years and has been your city councillor since 2019.  She has worked in Higher Education in Student Services for three decades and until very recently was employed at Anglia Ruskin University for more than 17 years as a Student Adviser, dealing with students in distress or with ongoing health conditions to help them succeed in their studies.

She is also a parent to a teenager and was a regular volunteer at the School Streets barrier at St Matthew's school whilst her child was at school there.

She is passionate about local democracy and is proud to have worked with fellow Lib Dem councillors to have successfully reduced single use plastics on our open spaces and stopped herbicide use on our green spaces. She fights on for better basic services in the city centre and around Cambridge - particularly public toilets. She has worked hard to ensure that events taking place on our public open spaces reduce their impact on the grass, arguing for proper funding from event organisers to repair and upgrade the soil and to return spaces to public use as soon as possible.

During her time as your councillor in Market ward, she campaigned successfully to keep the cows on our commons to increase biodiversity, to save trees in the ward from felling, and as our Planning and Transport and previously Housing spokesperson, has worked hard to improve housing around the city, including desperately needed affordable homes and the provision of decent timely infrastructure like schools and GP surgeries. 

Katie has been a long standing advocate for the opportunity for part time and flexible working for all who want it, as well as for the wider Equalities agenda to encourage more diversity in the workplace and in politics. She understands that for many issues affecting our wards, local politics is about getting things changed for the better and working collaboratively with whoever can help to achieve this. It is often these changes that make a huge difference to our quality of life, whether that is updating parking restrictions to free up pavement space and make us safer, keeping residents informed and included on forthcoming developments like the Grafton Centre, or reporting potholes, graffiti or broken lampposts.

Many of you will see Katie regularly as she is out and about around the ward and please do stop and say hello and let her know if there is anything that she and the wider Market Lib Dem of Tim, Anthony and Alex can help you with.

Contact Katie: katieporrer@gmail.com