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Sam Davies

3 years

Wow - saying the quiet bit out loud: "Engagement is necessary to ensure communities are on-board with changes in their local area and to prevent backlash"

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

How can anyone think this is remotely ok?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

7 months

And there we have it. Gove licenses "northwards of 150000 homes around Cambridge"

Neil Henderson

@hendopolis

7 months

TIMES: New homes to be forced through #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

So much bollocks about Cambridge being a cycling city. Just try biking from the city centre towards Addenbrooke's down Regent Street and Hills Road. No parking enforcement, close passes, road surface falling apart. Not comfortable, not even safe

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

There's a lot of lovely messages coming in which I will reply to as soon as I've caught my breath. In the meantime, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has made this possible. I will do my utmost to be the councillor that Queen Edith's residents deserve.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

A strong contender for the most useless signage of the month award. Shared use path on the Hills Road end of Queen Edith's Way @camcycle

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

6 years

"They were in a serious way as they didn't have a helmet on". Seriously? They were in a serious way as they'd just been hit by a f*cking car.

Witness to Cambridge crash describes seeing cyclist 'flying through the air'

An ambulance was on the scene within five minutes of the serious accident

www.cambridge-news.co.uk

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

Oh the irony of tweeting this today

Cambridge City Council

@camcitco

1 year

@CamCanopyProj 🍏 Donated nearly 100 heritage variety fruit trees to Cambridge CoFarm 📝 Issued 195 Tree Preservation Orders, helping to safeguard our city's urban forest for the future. You can find out about the project, and our achievements here: 2/3

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 months

I have literally no idea why more people don't walk and cycle around Cambridge

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

Y'day I witnessed callous neglect of a medically vulnerable person by clinical & emergency services. Today I saw the debt collection industry effortlessly turn a £99 fine *to a local authority* into a £750 debt for a single parent on benefits. Remember: don't be old, sick or poor

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Today I was honoured to be presented with an MBE by @Lord_Lt_Cambs in recognition of the hard work by so many people in Queen Edith's during the pandemic. It's been a very special day in the company of some very lovely people - thank you all

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

7 months

Can we stop with the 'urban extension' crap right now? In a city of 55k houses, adding 150k is not an 'urban extension'

Mark Williamson

@markrwilliamson

7 months

Michael Gove says the new urban extension to Cambridge will be an exemplar of beautiful development with parklands and museums. 1

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

I really appreciate your kind words, to be honest it is a bit overwhelming. Making something positive out of a difficult situation, working as part of an amazing team effort in QE and across the city - so many reasons to be grateful ♥️

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

Can we all just stop for a moment to reflect on how the once useful and meaningful description of a 'travel hub' has now been degraded to 'oversized and inappropriately located car park'?

Cambridgeshire Live

@Cambslive

1 year

The new development could include seven office buildings, and a nine-storey 'travel hub'.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

Spotted earlier. Short and to the point.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Isn't this exquisite? Thank you to @cambmayor and @camcitco , it's a huge honour to receive this and I will wear it with pride

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

Very happy to confirm that I am standing as an Independent candidate for Queen Edith's ward in the 2019 City Council election. Join me in helping residents get their voices heard, free from the distorting effects of party politics:

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

This week's update, on @GreaterCambs 'Making Connections' consultation:

In the end, it's the wrong question - Sam Davies

A very long post which I hope sheds a little light on why I cannot support the STZ proposals. They are a flawed answer to the wrong question.

sam4qe.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Well tonight has been fun

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Spent time this afternoon watching traffic at Addenbrooke's roundabout with @roxyfromoz and @the_spokeswoman What an absolute catastrophe that area is for pedestrians and cyclists

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

This is fascinating: Cambridge as a space contested by student and tourists. Not a single reference to residents ...

Cambridge: A student city with no student prices - University of Cambridge

A constant battle between students, tourists, and their wallets

thetab.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

@CambRapeCrisis Have you asked your service users how they feel about this recruitment criterion?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Honoured to have received this in the post today from @Lord_Lt_Cambs Gratefully accepted on behalf of *all* the amazing people in QE who have worked so hard to look after our community #StrongerTogether

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

What about the people who were in this city to start with?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

I can't think why more people don't walk and cycle

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

There should be an award for this kind of tin-eared advertising. How is it still considered aspirational to portray parents standing passively with their kids on pavements while over-large cars dominate the street?

Land Rover Discovery

@LandRover

5 years

Make the city your playground with the New Range Rover #Evoque .

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

7 months

But nothing in the article about any improvements to water infrastructure. Maybe he'll be pulling several new reservoirs out of a hat tomorrow

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

@BBCPolitics @ChrisMasonBBC @ChrisMasonBBC Cambridge is one of the country's economic success stories according to this logic, but we can't even maintain a bus service here to get kids to school. Please call this nonsense out!

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

Remind me again why we have to pay to access the Land Registry? Presumably it would throw up a whole load of inconvenient truths if anyone could actually see who owned what without paying for the privilege ...

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Taken today at Fendon Road roundabout. It cost £2.4m yet the road surface is breaking up after less than a year's use during a period when traffic volumes were way down on usual levels. How on earth is this an acceptable use of funds? Questions for @cambscc & @SkanskaUKplc

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

Hearing *lots* of car horns beeping in support of the nurses picketing at Addenbrooke's

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

How can politicians possibly claim they are acting to reduce car dependency if they think this is ok?

Waterbeach and Milton Labour Group

@beachlabour

3 years

A new #cyclepath was an integral part of the new development in #Waterbeach . The dangerous plans agreed by #SCDC with the complicity of our local #LibDem councillors will do nothing to encourage #green transport . Please sign the petition at

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Profound thanks to all the local residents who responded to this morning's tragic accident - directing traffic and pedestrians, letting people with urgent appts at Addenbrooke's park on their drives, helping the emergency services ❤️

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

@elybltc I call Parking Enforcement pretty regularly ...

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Public service announcement 🙂

I'm standing for City Council this May - Sam Davies

We can do something very special in Queen Edith’s in 2021 – to indicate clearly and decisively that we are ready to start a new chapter.

sam4qe.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

So what is the legal status of this? Presumably it has none. Immediately outside a station with 11m visitors a year. @CB1_Development - the gift that keeps on giving

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

10 months

This week's update:

Sheer contempt from the GCP - Sam Davies

The GCP is going through the motions of democratic interaction with the public but treating the whole exercise with barely concealed contempt.

sam4qe.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

Any trial which allows this to happen should be considered a failure. Pavement. Cycle path. Bus stop access. All blocked. Why do @CambsPboroCA @voitechnology think we should tolerate this?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

How many transatlantic flights a year is sustainable ...?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 months

Wouldn't it be bloody wonderful if anyone in a #Cambridge local leadership role felt able to share their thoughts as readily with local residents as they do with the development sector

Cratus

@CratusGroup

2 months

Happening Now: Question Time with your Metro Mayors Dr Nik Johnson (Cambridgeshire & Peterborough) and Oliver Coppard (South Yorkshire) currently setting out their visions and answering audience questions inside a packed #CratusGroupHustingsPavilion . #UKREiiF

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

This week's update:

CSET: An eye-wateringly expensive shambles (Your Councillor, week 5) - Sam Davies

I'm finding this all too depressing. And the Joint Assembly on Thursday approved all of this with an hour or so's discussion.

sam4qe.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

@PhilRodgers They should issue a free microscope so people can find the community space @ACarpenDigital

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 months

I don't remember the glossy images of the CB1 development including features like this. How odd ...

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Being treated to a special dinner tonight ☺️

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

"The whole vision for @CamBioCampus is predicated on people getting out of their cars". So why do they make it such a difficult environment to navigate on foot or by bike? My latest video on Cambridge South station - bring🍿

Sustainable transport and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus: the video - Sam Davies

I think you'll enjoy this video tour of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus from Addenbrooke's roundabout through to the site of the new railway station.

sam4qe.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

Why is the cross country train from Cambridge to Birmingham only three coaches when it's always heaving? Why is there no platform announcement that unreserved seats are in Coach B?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 month

@markrwilliamson @ClareFKing Yet more discussion of the city's future behind closed doors - can't even read the report because of paywall. We need the conversation to be *with* Cambridge, rather than about Cambridge

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

I hope this funding will be accompanied by a culture change across the relevant organisations to acknowledge that bike theft is a crime which can have serious practical, financial and personal consequences for the victim and which deserves proper investigation @camcycle

Greater Anglia News

@GreaterAngliaPR

2 years

We've welcomed funding for over £500,000 of improvements to Cambridge rail station’s Cycle Point bicycle parking facility, including better CCTV, secure access compounds and more accessible areas, as part of a partnership project to upgrade the cycle parking at the station.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

This week's update:

We need to give people better transport choices. And fast. - Sam Davies

I had to get from Cambridge to Huntingdon on an overcast Wednesday morning in October, and it seemed like a good idea to take the bus.

sam4qe.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 months

Here's a brain teaser - if five out of 15 trees are dead, some having been replaced three times, how much of the notional 10% biodiversity net gain is achieved after eight years?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Someone has made money out of a back garden development, and the pavement has been wrecked in the process. Why should it fall to the public purse to pay for this?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

9 months

Environment Agency objections raised against plans for 1k new homes in Cambridge - water again the issue

Objections raised against plans for 1,000 new homes in Cambridge

The Environment Agency has raised concerns over the Darwin Green development, which could include up to 1,000 new homes, as well as a primary school and secondary school

www.cambridge-news.co.uk

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

The mere fact that this is seen as a 'challenge' is quite revealing

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority

@CambsPboroCA

1 year

On Monday 12th June the Mayor will be supporting #BetterTransportWeek by completing his own #SixDistrictChallenge , whereby he aims to travel through all six districts in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in 24 hours using only buses, trains, walking and cycling routes. (2/3)

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

@markrwilliamson @CambsPboroCA If you want liveable neighbourhoods you have to look at planning, land use and providing a more even distribution of amenities. It's not just transport #JoinedUpThinking

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 months

@cam_friends @MonicaHone @markrwilliamson What's so ironic is the deafening cheerleading about Cambridge as a global science leader, even while we are told to ignore the science regarding the precarious water situation and instead rely on half-baked wishful thinking foisted on us by the self interested

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

Cycle theft - so easily written off as irritating but inconsequential, yet has profound impact on people's lives. Parent whose locked bike was stolen from outside their home walked with young child from Accordia to QE food hub this morning & back again. Nearly 4 mile round trip.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Some good news. QECF were asked by a local medical practice to find volunteers to help with vaccinations next weekend (meet & greet, car park attendants, etc). We emailed our 200 Happy to Help volunteers yesterday and an amazing 53 have offered to participate #Community

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

It would be fantastic if those charged with getting more people walking and cycling in Cambridge resolved to get the basics right, as well as shiny new headline grabbing projects

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

Walked past @nationalexpress coach stops on Parkside this morning & thought again how bizarre it is that a city with a big tourist industry & a big congestion problem treats coach passengers so badly. It seems it's ok to put any old crap in the centre of Parkers Piece ...

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

7 months

Great thread from Elliot. And he is right to emphasise the disregard for the people who are already here, already struggling. I've maintained contact with some of the families I helped when QE councillor, and had long conversations with two of them in the last 24 hours

Elliot Tong

@ElliotTongUK

7 months

Gove’s speech today doubles down on the plans that he set out earlier this year, while still suffering from the same core problem; the gentrification of Cambridge will do nothing to help working people, who have watched the city be gutted in recent years…

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

Just to compound the horrible modal conflicts outside the station, we now have a - presumably licensed - punt tour bike and staff stopping groups of visitors

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

7 months

And we get a development corporation

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Just back from volunteering at a holiday lunch club. Three mums spontaneously condemning @xr_cambridge activity @TrinCollCam and the lack of law enforcement. They felt very strongly that if their kids behaved like that, the police wouldn't hold back. Hypocrisy was the word used

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

Signing off for the evening now. Would be just peachy to wake up tomorrow to a statement from South Cambs Tory MP @AnthonyBrowneMP on today's government announcement on the future of this area. Not too much to ask I think

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

Residents should know that bike thieves are now so brazen that they cut power to a bike store to effect mass theft, and that bikes are stolen from individuals at knife point. This is not trivial or incidental property crime. This is an affront to our claim to be a civilised city

Chris Howell

@ChrisHowellCam

1 year

Stolen bikes in Cambridge Facebook group is reporting that in the last few days, 2 children have been mugged for bikes including 1 at knifepoint, and a flat's communal bike store raided overnight with a dozen bikes stolen. Needs another step up from @CambsCops

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

8 months

Very disappointed to hear that one of the candidates for the QE by-election is telling residents that I am supporting them. To be clear, I said I would not be endorsing any of the candidates and that continues to be the case. Anyone saying otherwise is misrepresenting my position

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

Main pedestrian access route to #Cambridge city centre. Unpleasant and at times unsafe. Bonus points if you can spot at least two improvements which could be made ... #WalkThisMay

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Thanks to those who, having had their Christmas plans changed at the last minute, took the time to bring their now-surplus ingredients to the QE Food hub at St James's this afternoon. Your generosity is much appreciated

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Markings on Hills Road bridge tonight indicate the lane painting is to be renewed. I suppose it's too much to hope for that @cambscc might resurface the cycle lane properly too. Been patched so many times it looks like the surface of the moon @camcycle

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

I will write a proper response when I've had some sleep but: - 44% turnout (2nd highest in the city) shows how much people care about what's happening in their community - 838 votes for an Independent in their first campaign shows a real appetite for change in QE

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

"Democracy is not someone else's job" 👏

ITV News

@itvnews

5 years

Heidi Allen has been selected as interim leader of the new party - and said while it was "hugely daunting", the "volume of support" from people suggested there was an appetite for a change to the existing political model

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Am sitting in a field in Suffolk. I had forgotten what it looks and sounds like to be surrounded by rich insect life, left to its own devices

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

One of many soul destroying aspects of today's saga was the observation that "They speak to you like you're a human being, they speak to me like I'm dirt."

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

I've just seen a really excellent piece of research by the Stolen Bikes in Cambridge FB team. What really hits home is not just the sheer number of bikes stolen but the impact the theft has on people's lives

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Prepped and ready for tomorrow's Queen Edith's food hub @StJamesCB1 on Wulfstan Way, 1030-1230. Open to anyone having problems accessing food

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

6 years

@MayorJPalmer “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.” And the same applies to cities

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Cllrs vote unanimously to reject the Hills Rd/Flying Pig application. Now recording planning reasons

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Just listened to an excellent presentation by @camcitco officers on the approach they're taking to retrofitting the city's housing stock for climate resilience. Wide ranging ambition - but funding continues to be a major challenge. Needs central govt input & fast!

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Yet another nail in the coffin of a city which consistently ignores its residents' needs for recreational space. Why is the first reaction to say 'no' rather than 'how can we make this work better'? Please sign the petition

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

9 months

This week's update:

A new chapter - Sam Davies

I will be starting a new chapter in my life next year, but this blog will remain. I hope that the ideas I have documented here will be useful.

sam4qe.com

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

This is just bizarre. The City Council is organising - and subsidising? - free wellbeing courses for 'business leaders'? Given all the other impacts of shrinking local govt finance, by what process has this been determined a priority?

Cambridge City Council

@camcitco

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We are offering a series of free webinars to support local business leaders’ wellbeing – and their employees’. The sessions cover topics ranging from self-care and resilience, to financial wellbeing and having better conversations about mental health.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

11 months

@The_BadGardener @Feargal_Sharkey Cambridge. Some of the trees on this development are on their third replanting. Replanting only ever happens after residents force the issue

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

7 months

Jaw dropping

Edward Leigh

@EdwardALeigh

7 months

All the @GreaterCambs transport workstreams combined have so far cost over £175m, of which >£75m is for workstreams that have delivered nothing of benefit since the #CityDeal was agreed in 2014.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

This has to be a joke right?

Jennifer Keesmaat

@jen_keesmaat

5 years

Challenge in the UK: adding a million new homes along the Oxford-Cambridge arc while respecting the character of existing towns + the pastoral landscape. Here, ⁦ @Mosaics_Oxford ⁩ by ⁦ @GrosvenorGRP ⁩ gets the scale, design detail right. #DesignForLivingMK ⁦ @theAoU ⁩

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

2 years

@markrwilliamson @SouthCambs Anyone else spotting a pattern here? Community buildings, cycle path, rail station relocation, electricity infrastructure ... Getting expensive for local govt to keep underwriting developers' profit margins

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

This is a tweet by a professional in the planning/development sector. Now imagine how much more bewildering this is to the average member of the public, perhaps engaging with the planning system for the first time. Totally unfit for purpose. Does any LPA in the UK get this right?

Paul Smith

@Paul_SLG

3 years

If you need me this afternoon, I'll be working my way through this list of application documents trying to work out which one is the layout.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

You only have to stand here for a couple of minutes to see how horribly wrong this will go

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 years

Another exemplary calm, clear and empathetic email from @HillsRoadNews this morning, taking students and parents through the implications of yesterday's announcement. So impressed by how they are managing this fiasco

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

@createstreets It's Cambridge North station. Maybe it will help you understand why locals are sceptical about overblown promises of beautiful development

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

First formal Council meeting was - interesting. Lots to learn and a few thoughts. Will try to condense for this weekend's blog :-)

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

I recently published a blog about the future of the Market Square. Now the Grafton is up for grabs to the highest bidder. The same questions apply: Who's setting the future direction of the city? Who will the winners & losers be? How can residents' interests be safeguarded?

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

Read this thread in the context of the likely fate of our own art deco cinema on Hobson Street - such a missed opportunity

Michael Fox

@MDFOXY

1 year

The wraps are starting to come off the restored frontage of the former Granada Cinema in Walthamstow, and isn't she looking pretty! Grade II*, by Cecil Masey and Theodore Komisarjevsky, 1930.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

10 months

A city which was serious about public transport access to the city centre would tackle illegal parking on St Andrew's St. If serious about pedestrian access it would tackle pavement obstruction

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

Just read this and take it in. A long-term Cambridge resident has stopped cycling to the station *because of* the results of a £700m investment programme @ollywainwright

mary beard

@wmarybeard

5 years

@jgrgilbert @camcycle I have stopped cycling to the station... that cant be uncommon, or good..m

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Seriously?

CambsChamber

@cambschamber

3 years

Celebrate ‘Freedom Day’ with the Chamber and the Mayor @NikJohnsonCA Register to attend – limited places available Monday 19 July, 5-7pm, Apex Coffee House, Lancaster Way Business Park, Ely

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

8 months

I wish Immy all the very best for her term of office. Congratulations to all the candidates for a well-fought campaign

Cambridge Electoral Services

@votecambridge

8 months

Imogene Blackburn-Horgan (Liberal Democrat) has been duly elected

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

3 years

Just came across this, on CB1:

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

5 years

Richard is performing a huge public service by recording all of this in such detail, especially since those in authority who sanctioned this installation don't appear to be present to see the consequences

Richard Taylor

@RTaylorUK

5 years

I’m on King’s Parade in Cambridge again for the fourth day running as councillors have again said they are due to close the new anti-terror barrier today. The road is very busy with cyclists at the moment.

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

1 year

So "no-one is doing mass housebuilding in Cambridge" (Sunak). But it's a "major new urban quarter for the city" (Gove). And achieved "in dialogue with local communities", except they haven't spoken to local govt organisations and are creating a separate delivery body #ArseElbow

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Sam Davies

@Sam_in_Cam

4 months

So if local authority leaders and reps of the academic, innovation and infrastructure sectors will be invited to join the Advisory Council to support the Growth Company, who the hell is running the Growth Company?

Mark Williamson

@markrwilliamson

4 months

‘A range of local partners, including local authority leaders and representatives of the academic, innovation and infrastructure sectors, will be invited to an Advisory Council to support the Growth Company.’

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