Blog Posts

  • 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

  • Little Wilbraham March 2010 parish report

    A14 Public Enquiry update As you will know the consultation on the proposals to rebuild the A14 closed on the 6th of January 2010. The Government have appointed the Inspector and his team. The full details of all the objections is likely to be made public in March. The Inspector is likely to hold the… Read more

  • Guided busway update

    This is complex and frustrating. Having looked into the matter and had officer briefings it seems clear to me that the council has by and large got things right. The issue seems to be the contractor has over run on its own costs and is trying a number of tactics to recover them from the… Read more

  • Transport Innovation Fund Scrapped

    Briefing note on the Department for Transport announcement of the Urban Challenge Fund and the scrapping of Congestion TIF On Tuesday 2 March 2010, Sadiq Khan, the Minister of State for Transport announced the setting up of an Urban Challenge Fund, which would replace the Congestion Transport Innovation Fund. This fund would require… “…Local Authorities… Read more