Boris Tribute Acts
All new Governments want to do new things, but policy interactions are hard. Covid has allowed things to do at speed, because there was a singular strategic focus across Government and the NHS in the...
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Cambridge House Prices (over time)
“Sustainable” housing prices for Cambridge would be a band D house costing around £150k in 2022. Some data on Cambridge house prices as they grew, compared to 1991 prices with inflation, and starting...
View ArticlePlanning conditions
A missing planning condition can lead to shortcuts being taken and loopholes used during building. Queen Edith’s Cllr Sam Davies explains how difficult it is to resolve problems where the process of...
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About half of projects that come back for discharge of planning conditions do it only once. The 98 different reference numbers linked to “7/0620/“ suggest a different and particular approach to...
View ArticleWhat is Cambridge for?
Government is apparently thinking about encouraging innovation in Cambridge, again. All innovation in Cambridge stems from a choice 800 years ago, that the University remains very proud of, when a...
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Breaking the law seems like a rational act for AI startups, and what to do...
“National security” scale risks are the topic of the “AI Safety Summit”, which is the sort of thing you want governments to spend their time reducing. I’m glad there’s a summit on a potential...
View ArticleInnovation in Manchester or Cambridge?
All innovation comes from people who give a damn also being able to do something about it. Cambridge isn’t lacking people who innovate; the unanswered challenge is where can they afford to sleep while...
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