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• Category: Elections
  • City Council election result for 2023
  • Election Results!
  • Election Update No.6
  • Election Update No.5
  • Election Update No.4
  • Election Update No.3
  • Election Update No.2
  • Election Update No.1
  • I’m standing for City Council this May
  • My 2019 Election Website
• Category: News
  • Road charging plans: have your say
• Category: Opinion
  • GB1 housing is “policy compliant” – but it’s not right
  • The next Local Plan and why we must keep on top of it
  • The ‘cost’ of the Fendon Road roundabout: comparing apples and oranges
  • How we can build on our communities’ strengths
  • Worts Causeway: Don’t let the tail wag the dog
  • How decisions are made and money gets spent in the city
  • The GCP does not seem to be fit for purpose
  • What will Cambridge South Station mean for Queen Edith’s?
  • ‘Dry ponds’ and other mysteries
  • Potential problems on the horizon for ‘GB1’ development
  • Bridging, bonding, linking
  • Time to speak up over local transport plans
  • Further ruminations on Fendon Road roundabout
  • Round and round in circles – the Fendon Road Roundabout Redesign
  • Queen Edith’s – A Liveable Neighbourhood?
  • What can we learn from the Southern Fringe (2): Community
  • What can we learn from the Southern Fringe (1): Transport
  • Why the Cherry Hinton Road design process is rubbish
  • Where will the children of GB1 and GB2 go to school?
  • Marshall’s move
  • Let’s have our say on the ‘GB2’ housing development site
• Category: Video
  • Heads need banging together over Cambridge South station
  • Sustainable transport and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus: the video
• Category: Your Councillor
  • A new chapter
  • Relentless
  • Devolution? Or Democratic Dead End?
  • Phenomenal Wealth
  • Sheer contempt from the GCP
  • No let-up over the summer
  • Time to breathe
  • Bits and pieces
  • It’s not residents’ responsibility
  • On the verge …
  • The same process …again
  • It’s becoming a blur
  • Imagine 2050
  • A Triple Whammy
  • A collective failure
  • Planning, growth and happiness
  • My Annual Report 2023
  • Why we can’t have nice things
  • Assets and Deficits
  • I got a certificate to vote
  • Engaging with the Biomedical Campus
  • Disappointing and dysfunctional
  • Everything everywhere all at once
  • The state of planning
  • Definitely a minority interest
  • What’s important to you?
  • Horse. Stable door. Bolted.
  • Asking the right questions
  • Local Voices
  • Making a life worth living
  • Digging into the data
  • Big proposals continue to roll in
  • In the end, it’s the wrong question
  • Where is our pavilion?
  • Have your say on road charging
  • Down the back of the sofa
  • Planning is a moral question
  • Does Cambridge Have A Democratic Deficit?
  • Talkin’ bout a revolution
  • The Two-Speed City
  • Not within our gift
  • Read All About It
  • Hard Decisions
  • False Economy
  • Busted!
  • More growth. Still no benefits?
  • Setting our future direction
  • Big Business, little people
  • Behind Closed Doors
  • What story do you think this tells?
  • Belonging
  • Parking the difficult problems
  • Collaboration vs Confrontation
  • Small steps in encouraging active travel
  • Scooters, art and planning permission: all on an unhappy path
  • Foot down on the pro-growth accelerator?
  • My Annual Report 2022
  • Continuing the sustainability battle
  • Some ideas to start the conversation
  • Doing our best for Ukrainians
  • All that Glitters …part 2
  • Cutting down on oil use is in our hands
  • Development: not even a level playing field
  • More of the same is not enough
  • Speaking out against wrong-doing
  • All That Glitters
  • Profit and Loss
  • Could levelling up mean community power?
  • Noise at night: cause of a problem, or symptom?
  • Cambridge’s dysfunctional development trajectory
  • It’s growth which is unsustainable
  • 1100 into 2022
  • The homesickness we feel in our own home
  • Business needs to listen to those not on its magic carpet
  • Council Area Committees are clearly not working
  • Is it time for our own Neighbourhood Plan?
  • We need to talk about ‘windfall’ developments
  • For those who live here, Cambridge is ‘place’ not ‘space’
  • An encouraging decision on planning!
  • What goes around, comes around
  • Scooters …and giving the system a shove
  • We need to give people better transport choices. And fast.
  • A Dark Week
  • How can we be a city where all citizens are listened to?
  • We’re planning for a Horror Story
  • Encouraging public involvement with council work
  • The cumulative impact of opportunistic building
  • First sight of the crucial next Local Plan
  • Short term letting: why it is so hard to control
  • Hoping for joined-up thinking on the railways
  • Leading and listening – we have to do better
  • Some of the highs – and lows – of our neighbourhood
  • Getting things done with Queen Edith’s residents
  • Our unequal relationship with central government (Your Councillor, week 10)
  • Uncovering system level problems (Your Councillor, week 9)
  • This week has not been good for my blood pressure! (Your Councillor, week 8)
  • A brief glimpse of community Utopia (Your Councillor, week 7)
  • Roadworks like this are simply not OK (Your Councillor, week 6)
  • CSET: An eye-wateringly expensive shambles (Your Councillor, week 5)
  • Tourism, growth and balance (Your Councillor, Week 4)
  • Babraham Road and the Corn Exchange (Your Councillor, week 3)
  • Roadworks and the Market (Your Councillor, week 2)
  • Induction and Expansion (Your Councillor, week 1)