I recommend an excellent post about attitudes to cycling and cyclists in Peterborough and Cambridge:
http://cottenhamcyclist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/operation-pedalo-2.html
My thanks to Rohan Wilson for sharing and to Peterborough Cycling Forum, whose members are talking about it.
Green Festival programme of events from @sustainablecity pect.org.uk/downloads/Gree…
— Fiona Radic (@FionaRadic) May 17, 2013
PECT coordinates this annual event. That is quite a job. Respect: especially for Ben: this year’s impresario. The event brochure is here.
Being Blocked on twitter by our elected representative in Parliament is a Badge of Honour in Peterborough.
Thomas Deacon Junior Academy Plan
Click here to find the plan of the new Junior Academy, which will sit on what is currently green space and part of the Thomas Deacon Academy’s sports field. What do you think? Were you able to get to the evening exhibition (I missed it I’m afraid). And have you commented?
This document is http://plandocs.peterborough.gov.uk/NorthgatePublicDocs/00875815.pdf which is “Existing and proposed contours TD.016.039.P.011” (I think, but I find it very confusing because the index and the document open on the same tab and I haven’t got time to check because I have been timed out….) at http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/planning_and_building/planning_and_building_online.aspx . If you want to look at the other documents you need to accept cookies and conditions at this point and search for “Thomas Deacon”. You should find this planning application amongst older ones for the site.
The council may decide this proposal at its planning meeting on the 8th January. http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/planning_and_building/planning_and_building_online.aspx
I wrote to my ward councillors on Tuesday 13th September and had received a first dismal response within nine hours.
But the following Monday I received a very different second response. This one from Cllr John Shearman (here he is).
First of all he apologises for not replying sooner. Frankly speediness of response is not the most important thing to me. And since I wrote about a jargon-prone subject which most people would find technical, difficult and tedious an over speedy response really wouldn’t impress me.
But offering an apology for responding within a week achieves so much. Starting like this says to me (these are my words, not his) “Hello, I am a human being with manners and I understand the common courtesies. Moreover I have standards: they are mine and…..”
I don’t need to go on. And nor will I copy onto my blog the content of his response or our subsequent conversations. That would be impolite: he has expressed himself to me honestly, frankly and (absolutely critically important to me, and to anything relating to planning) he comes over as open-minded and prepared to listen. That is what I think people expect of a ward councillor.
And, best of all, from what he says I can see that he has done his homework and understands the incinerator campaign work which has being quietly going on in the city. His email is a very tiny but very concise executive summary of how the situation actually is. Hats off.
Thank you, John.
I am still waiting for a response from the third of my ward councillors.
