Blog Posts

  • Integrated Planning Funding – Update

    As you know there has been a significant tightening of  the belt this year as a result of reduced funding. It is set to get worse. The governments emergency budget, whilst not yet fully understood, is likely to reduce funding by up to £9m a year on top of the savings already made. A lot Read more

  • Procurement – Member Led Review

    Back in October I was asked to chair a member led review on how the council buys its goods and services. Today was the day when I presented the report to cabinet. Our report highlighted a number of significant weaknesses in the procurement process and made a number of recommendations on some fairly important issues. Read more

  • Fulbourn Day Care Center

    Healthcare Homes Day Care There has been some confusion around the provision of day care in Fulbourn, Toft and St Neots. Please see the separate briefing sheet for the facts. In order to get to the facts I arranged for Rod Craig, Executive Director (Community and Adult Services) CCC to attend a meeting with the Read more

  • Holding the executive to account

    Part of the role of a County Councillor is to scrutinise the activities of the executive. This is carried out through 5 scrutiny committees which are comprised of members from all parties. In fact they perform much the same way that commons select committees do in Parliament. They are public meetings which you may attend. Read more

  • Fen Ditton April parish report

    Guided Busway The County continue to hold the contractor BNL to its obligations under the design  and build contract for the guided busway. Unfortunately, this will result in a delay in bringing it into service.  The northern section is substantially complete bu t has six significant defects that the county require the contractor to put Read more

  • Fulbourn Primary School Class Saved

    The number of classes in a school is determined by the number of children likely to need them. This makes sense most of the time. There are a number of complex ways to work this out and by and large we do end up with the right number of classes in all our schools for Read more