Author: Karen Young
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City Council report – June 2026
Annual General Meeting This meeting is mostly ceremonial and takes place unusually during the day with ex-councillors and family invited. Normally, everyone knows how things will turn out but in this case with the council in no overall control, we did not. As LibDems, we were not keen on supporting either a Labour or a…
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County Council Monthly Report – June 2026
Full Council Following the disqualification of Andy Osborn (Roman Bank and Peckover), a by-election has been called with a polling day of Thursday 25 June. Meanwhile, another Reform councillor -James Sidlow (Ramsey and Bury), the group’s former leader – has resigned from the council. A by-election is expected a few weeks after the one in…
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Cadent Roadworks Hills Road
The planned Cadent Gas mains replacement works that were scheduled to begin on 1 May 2026 and continue until the end of June on Long Road and Hills Road, Cambridge. As you may now be aware, these works have been postponed following the Street Works Team’s decision to revoke Cadent’s previously approved permits. I just…
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City Council Update April 2026
Performance, Assets and Strategy Overview and Scrutiny Committee City Centre Heat Network The scrutiny committee looked at proposals for setting up a city centre Heat Network. The Heat Network will use air and river source heat pumps to heat buildings in the city centre instead of the traditional gas boilers and has the potential to…
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County Council Update April 2026
FULL COUNCIL The Full Council resolved to oppose any proposals to merge our local police force into a regional or national entity, and called on the Government to prioritise increased funding for community policing teams, national standards for vetting and technology upgrades to improve efficiency, and enhanced rural crime support and local police desks in…
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City Council update March 2026
Full Council The main item on the agenda was the budget for next year which has to be passed so that council tax bills can be issued for the next year. It comes in two parts, the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and the General Fund. The HRA shows large increases in spending (£750,000) on treatment…
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County Council update March 2026
FULL COUNCIL Business plan and budget The full council met on Tuesday 10 February to vote on the budget and business plan for 2026/27 to 2028/29. The proposals for a ‘healthy, fair and sustainable Cambridgeshire’, approved by a majority of councillors, include record spending on roads, thousands of extra school places, and support for vulnerable…
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Development corporation
There are two public webinars coming up in the next couple of weeks where people can find out more about the Government’s proposals for a Greater Cambridge Development Corporation, during the ongoing consultation period. Register for the webinars which are on Tuesday 17 March at 1.45pm and Tuesday 24 March at 5.45pm here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=EGg0v32c3kOociSi7zmVqKnJ0Yjmm3RGlphIiKXSOjFUMjZHRFVROFgyWDAwODNIRVlXRVIxRzdNSC4u&route=shorturl&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialSignIn&utm_source=Facebook which are…
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Money for infrastructure: CIL consultation
Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council are proposing to introduce the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) – a charge that local authorities can apply to new development to help fund the infrastructure needed to support growth. A six week consultation started on Monday (16 February) – take a look at the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning…
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Early voting
Voters in Cambridge will be among the first in the country to trial a more flexible way of voting in person at the local elections on Thursday 7 May 2026, as part of a new Government-backed pilot. This is a very welcome trial to make it easier to vote. Turnout in Cambridge is historically high…