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Will Homes England subsidise council flats redevelopment?

In designs I’ve labelled as ‘worse than communism’, the developers who are meant to be partners with Cambridge City Council are now saying they cannot proceed with the affordable housing element because it won’t make a big enough profit for them Hence…their proposal to apply to Homes England for a subsidy It’s the regeneration of…

Independent report published into Cambridge Transport

The papers for next week’s Transport Committee meeting of the Combined Authority has been published, and it contains an independent report on the state of transport in and around Cambridge. It doesn’t pull its punches. Image – London’s sleek buses from Buses Magazine in 2022 The meeting papers here. The deadline for public questions is…

Almost one in four adults reported feeling lonely…

…according to the latest statistical release from the Office for National Statistics for the period covering January 2026 Above: “Proportion of adults reporting how often they felt lonely often, always or some of the time, Great Britain, March 2020 to January 2026” ONS Feb 2026 The data in the above-mentioned graph is interrogated in the…