Mill Road Depot redevelopment

The Cambridge Council Depot on Mill Road is being relocated and the site redevelopped for housing. This has been on the cards since 2014, when the Local Plan idenified the site as suitable for housing. After a consultation exercise, the council approved a Planning and Development Brief, but also set up the Cambridge Investment Partnership, a jount venture with Hills to undertake the development. After further consultation, the CIP have developped a proposal, which I feel is significantly flawed.

In general, the proposals offered by the CIP are not in keeping with the Mill Road Depot Supplementary Planning Document adopted by the City Council in March 2017, and have not taken into account the views of local residents expressed at previous meetings about the site.

In particular, I have concerns about issues relating to:
Density
Urban Grain
Open Space and Gardens
Community facilities and additionality
“Affordable” housing and alternative tenures.

Rejected by the Labour Party

Subject: Re: Supporter Application
To: Supporter Applications
Cc: daniel@cambridgelabour.org.uk
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015

Dear Labour Party
Thank you for your email.
I do not understand why you have rejected my application. Your email is
particularly unhelpful since it does not explain the process of pursuing "an
application to join Labour as a full member" and the phone number given does not
work.

Cambridge Carbon Footprint is 10 years old!

When Rosemary and I delivered a workshop in Bristol for the Climate Psychology Alliance , on the 10th July, talking about our new book, we realised it was 10 years to the day since we started talking about Carbon Footprints.

First Cambridge ITFT? talk

Rosemary and I had a chance to try out our 'launch' presentation at Cambridge Architectural Research on Wednesday. It seemed to go down a treat.
Rosemary starts with a slide, saying that in polite society you were not supposed to bring up sex, death or religion and now you must add climate change.

So at the end, no one asked about sex, death or religion or climate change!
I think we need to add psychotherapy to the list too.
I hope there are no climate change deniers amongst my colleagues, so I guess we got off lightly. Next week we are at the Scott Polar.We hope lots of friends will be there too.

Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh

In Time for Tomorrow is being published on the 14th Jan. Rosemary and I will be speaking about Carbon Conversations and signing books at at least 3 events in February:

Cambridge: Monday 9^th February, 6pm – 7.30pm.
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.
In time for tomorrow: Why is climate change so easy to ignore? A talk and reception.
Further details from Rosie Amos ra395@cam.ac.uk.



Oxford: Thursday, 12th February 2015, 7:00 – 9:00 pm,
Blackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ.
To book click here

Edinburgh: Thursday, 19th February 2015, 5.00 – 7.00 pm,
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ.
To book  click here.