Last year the Conservatives changed the way the county council debated its budget and the setting of its council tax in order to give their council leader more goes at speaking than anyone else. Basically it turns the process of budget debate into a game of rock, scissors, paper. In the previous autumn the Conservatives […]

At the December meeting of Cambridgeshire County Council Conservative councillors passed a rather bizarre motion to improve air quality in the city of Cambridge by attacking public transport. It included plans to prevent generation of revenue from congestion charging (needed to invest in public transport), to consider allowing electric vehicles to travel in bus lanes […]

Liberal Democrat South Cambridgeshire District Council is spending more to tackle climate change than any other council in the East of England according to the environmental journalism website De-Smog.  According to De-Smog Devon County Council and Oxford City Council are the only councils spending more on climate change compared to South Cambs. Having pledged last […]

In December 2011 a decision was made that would cost Cambridgeshire council taxpayers tens of millions of pounds. We were told the £28 million estimate of the chosen Ely Bypass route was “good value for money” by the Conservative Cabinet. In the end it has cost £49 million. Was there a cheaper alternative – yes […]

When I was informed by Fulbourn Primary School that it was to have a half school day on Wednesdays from the start of the new school year in September I spoke with the education team at Cambridgeshire County Council as the Local Education Authority to see if there was anything they could do given that […]

South Cambridgeshire District Council wants to make it easier for local tradespeople to work for it. The Lib Dem Council is simplifying the tendering documents for council contracts that are below the EU Procurement Thresholds. It will be running workshops for local Small and Medium Sized (SME) businesses during this year and investigating how the […]

Funded by the Government and with support from Cambridge City Council Liberal Democrat controlled South Cambridgeshire District Council are offering to provide homes for three to five families from war torn Syria. Officers have confirmed that this humanitarian act will have a negligible adverse affect on housing homeless people in the district. Yet Tory councillors […]

There were more than 261,000 journeys on Cambriddge Park and Ride services in January – up more than 15% compared to the same time last year. The Newmarket P&R service has seen a 35% increase in journeys year-on-year – up to 43,702 this year from 32,184 in January 2018 – while there were 71,960 more […]

South Cambridgeshire District Council with nearly 60,000 households and 8,000 businesses has one of the lowest council tax rates in England and Wales and for 2019/20 it will be £145.31 for a band D property. With such a low council tax base, Council Tax and Retained Business Rates account for about three quarters of the […]

Days after the Met Office warned of significant temperature rises in the decades ahead, Liberal Democrat controlled South Cambridgeshire District Council has pledged to support an ambitious target of cutting local carbon emissions to zero by 2050. The UK Climate Projections 2018 study says that, under a scenario with the highest emissions, summer temperatures could […]