[Discuss] Parker's Piece
ronald hall
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Wed Jul 2 12:02:15 BST 2014
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On Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 11:24, Carolin Gohler <ceo at cambridgeppf.org> wrote:
Dear all,
I suggest you set up a joint meeting between the Cambridgeshire
County Council (managed highways including rights of ways over the
city's green spaces and lighting schemes on highways) as well as
with the parks and recreation management team of the Cambridge
City Council.
Yes lighting on our highways is very poor and the lighting
contract has just been signed approx 2 years ago .... thus many
decades to go before changes can be achieved. CambridgePPF has
been presuming to make changes but so far only Mill Road and the
old Richardson's Candles in the historic centre have been given
more advantageous considerations ..... very little money has been
set aside by Cambridgeshire County Council for any heritage
lighting. The only way is to achieve things is by asking the City
Council to contribute (Mill Road was successful) however as you
all know available budgets are almost NIL.
Now is the time for you to contact the County Council about the
lighting on Christ's Pieces!
I try to see if I can get anybody to update us.
Although there are Conservation Area Appraisal covering many parts
of the inner city they are not strong enough on lighting and other
street furniture and mostly ignored by the County Council.
Green space management - because the annual budget for maintaining
our parks and green corridors etc is so low the City Council has
to continually find money from events and activities. Not to say
that green spaces are there to be enjoyed by a wide variety of
local people - sometimes tranquil pursuits sometimes more noisier
appealing to our different generations - Parker's Piece and its
central heritage light column was know as Reality Checkpoint
during the fabulous Sixties .... nowadays we are doing other
things. The main thing it remains a balanced approach!
Kind regards Carolin
Carolin Göhler - Chief Executive
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On 02/07/2014 10:28, Anne Marie Garvey wrote:
Certainly, I think that would be excellent.
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>On 2 Jul 2014, at 10:07, Lisa Buchholz wrote:
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>Do we want to pull together a collective letter asking that more care be taken on managing rights of way (and to whom - not sure who manages set up of these events, although could ask Green Spaces officers). Lamps sound like a bit of a lost cause if council is locked into a contract - when does 30 year contract expire - I mean, was this signed 20 yrs ago, or are we just at the start of it? If nearing its end, we could write saying it's an opportunity to do something nicer.
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>>On 1 July 2014 14:54, Anne Marie Garvey <annemgarvey at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>>Lamp posts are a centre of contention. They were all ordered as a job lot from Balfour Beattie in a massive thirty year long contract. Here in Hertford Street they show no concession to the fact that they've made it a conservation area, they're just the standard concret ones. In other cities I am always seeing really imaginative lamp posts. Sorry to hear that the ones one Christs Pieces are just disappearing.
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>>>On 1 Jul 2014, at 14:21, Joanna Gordon Clark wrote:
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>>>well done simon, for flagging this up. Awful to have pubic right of way obstrcuted so very physically and while fo ryou maybe it would not have been a huge thing to climb over, for many older people and those with bad legs (like me, for eg.) it woudl be impossible, and also it is a removal of our open space. suggest you ask them in the council what this was all about. also now they are commandeering a fair bit of space, presumably for th tour de france thing, but in the end it is our space, not their space.
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>>>>Another thing: has anyone noticed the way they are removing old lamppost from Christs Pieces, many of whcih used to look exactly lilke the one in the Narnia books? such a shame, and wehre we consulted? nope
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>>>>but also congratulate them on the lovely Diana, Princess of Wales, rose archway with seats, which they planted up beautfiully this spring and whcih has currently got three climbing roses on it, one of which isnt quite as climbing as the others, but it is the spirit of the ting that counts.
>>>>and have they reset the wooden protecitons round the tree at the end of the Pieces, near to the Methodist church exit, and will the other one that got vandalised, the birch tree, survive?
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>>>>oaky thats miy lot.
>>>>joanna - Alex Gardens Trees adn FMC
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>>>>On Friday, 27 June 2014, 20:17, Simon Norton <simon at dpmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>>A fortnight ago I needed to catch an early train and decided, as I usually do
>>>>when in this position, to walk
across Parker's Piece instead of
Regent St.
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>>>>However there was an event on
that day (14 June) and caravans
etc. were parked
>>>>on the grass. Whoever organised
the event seemed to be at pains
to stop people
>>>>from getting access to the grass
between these caravans and
Regent Terrace,
>>>>because as soon as the railings
on the path towards Mill Rd
stopped the event
>>>>area began, and the first
caravan (or whatever it was) was
chained to the last
>>>>railing with no gap to get
through.
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>>>>Well there wasn't any real
difficulty in climbing over the
railings, but it was
>>>>still a bit of a nuisance -- and
a quite unnecessary one surely.
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>>>>Simon Norton
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