Blog Posts

  • Red Nose Day

    Looking forward to visiting our contact center tonight to see how the team are doing taking pledges. I hope to have a go myself. But before that I am part of a question time style panel at Huntingdon Conservative Association along with the local MP, MEP and district council leader. Should be interesting. Today I Read more

  • Street works

    Street works is all about digging up pavements and roads and how it is managed and repaired. This issue is clearly dear to all our hearts as so often a perfect road finish is turned into a patchwork quilt. Along with Cllr Peter Box I met with most of the utility companies yesterday. Also present Read more

  • Street works – seeking to make them better

    Today I am representing the LGA at a summit to seek a way forward, with utility companies, to end unacceptable restoration of our roads and footpaths after utility companies have dug holes. We will also explore how street works can be better coordinated to reduce the impact on local communities and business in particular. This Read more

  • Fulbourn

    A good parish council meeting tonight. Before it started their was a presentation, on behalf of developers, for 50 houses to be built on green belt land with what looked like pretty unimpressive highways solutions. Over 50 people packed the room. Many spoke out against the proposal and I did not hear anyone in support Read more

  • Vote for councillors who care about what really counts – not the ones that care about the day we count your vote.

    I have seen an extraordinary email from a Lib Dem Cambridge city councillor kicking off about the election process in May. Something sinister perhaps? No, sensible impartial decisions made by the responsible returning officer to count the votes the following morning rather than throughout the night. I’d like to think that most people want to Read more

  • Hospitals and operations

    Interesting to hear the difficulties faced by hospitals at this time of year. I have personal family experienced of operations being cancelled, in December and January. The first operation was cancelled on the day of the operation and the second the night before. Both cancellations caused a lot of upset and stress to say nothing Read more