North Area
The North Area includes Arbury, East and West Chesterton, and Kings Hedges, and has an active Lib Dem team. See our blog below for what we've been doing for your area recently!
Funding available for open spaces and community facilities
Funding opportunity! "S106 funding" (the name comes from the section of the act it refers to) is available for public open spaces and parks in (or near) the Chesterton wards, and for community spaces (eg places like Brownsfield Youth Centre).
Some good news - Drain repairs, Speed hump repairs and making the High Street mini round about safer
I’m pleased to give you three pieces of good news; I’ve secured funding for some local improvements in Chesterton.
Potential gathering on Midsummer Common
There are low level (from social media monitoring) suggestions that there could be a gathering on Midsummer Common on Saturday to mark the occasion that would have been Midsummer Fair.
[edit]To be clear: the information above came from the Police, no Councillors or Lib Dems have done any monitoring of people's social media[/edit]
Cllr Ian Manning has been in contact with the Police, City and County Councils about this.
City Fibre work across Cambridge
Read on for details of when the works will happen, and an FAQ on the works.
The latest schedule, which will be refreshed regularly, hopefully once a week here, is: City Fibre timetable
(we had a Public meeting at The Waterman pub, rear shed, 1800-2000 on 2020-01-30 (6pm-8pm on the 30th January) with representatives from City Fibre present, and potentially could organise another if needed).
Read moreWest Chesterton Parking update - 2019-11-28
Sewage Works Development Update 2
Since my last update https://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/sewage_works_development_update_the_necaap_forum we've had two further meetings of the forum, and a draft of the framework was due for presentation to Councillors at the end of November, however this has now been delayed due to the General Election.
This has also impacted on the timescale for this planning phase. More details when we have them.
I've attempted to summarise what is being discussed in this blog post - this is very high level and brief.
Read moreWest Chesterton Parking: combined scheme more survey results
Here is more detailed street by street breakdowns of answers to my informal survey on parking controls, as well as other results from the survey.
Read moreChesterton Road planning application call in -19/0981/FUL
I've "called in" planning application 19/0981/FUL . Calling in is the process by which a local Councillor can insist that a planning application decision is made at committee rather than by an individual officer under delegated powers.
Read moreWest Chesterton Parking: combined scheme initial survey results
These are the results of the citizens jury.....read on for the initial results of the parking survey ( https://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/west_chesterton_parking_a_larger_scheme ) I'm reporting back initial results as of the time of writing.
Read moreChesterton Local highways bids - five progressed
As noted in a previous blog post I had to select five top bids to progress to the next stage of the LHI process. I'm going to explain which ones I've selected, and some reasons for those as well as the ones I didn't progress.
