<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear all,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Update 27 July, 2024</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:red">STOP PRESS<span> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,176,80)">Last chance to have your say on the emerging Cambridge civic quarter plans</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,176,80)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Click on link below<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://x.com/greenarteries/status/1817211990311305692" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://x.com/greenarteries/status/1817211990311305692</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Deadline for responding is <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">tomorrow, Sunday 28 July</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Email<span> </span><a href="mailto:info@cambridgecivicquarter.co.uk" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">info@cambridgecivicquarter.co.uk</a><span> </span>and/or respond to the survey on line<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://engage.cambridge.gov.uk/en-GB/projects/cambridge-civic-quarter" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://engage.cambridge.gov.uk/en-GB/projects/cambridge-civic-quarter</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thank you for letting us know your views. Regarding Cambridge market square, John Preston, historic environment consultant, is concerned that a brief for Riba Stage 1 has still not been completed. See John and Kati Preston’s letter in the <i>Cambridge Independ</i>ent. Link below.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><a href="https://x.com/greenarteries/status/1817244005266047130" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://x.com/greenarteries/status/1817244005266047130</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">The<span> </span><i>Cambridge Independent</i><span> </span>reported (2 July) that the suggestion of incorporating temporary market stalls into the layout of the market alongside new permanent stalls to enable events had generated a range of comments.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">“We still need to determine what type of events could take place, how regularly, and at what time.”</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Market trader Glenys Self, who runs the Friends of Cambridge Market, feared “the cost of a team to put up and take down the stalls could be too much for the cash-strapped council – and might force it to shut the market down.”<span> </span> See link below<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://premium.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/could-cambridge-market-become-too-expensive-to-run-9372751/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://premium.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/could-cambridge-market-become-too-expensive-to-run-9372751/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:green;border:1pt windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">In 2023 city council proposals to the CPCA for funding towards a number of strategic initiatives included <b><span style="border:1pt windowtext;padding:0cm">£1.5m </span></b>of match funding to support the enhancement of the Market Square in Cambridge as part of a central ‘Cultural Quarter’. Link below<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://cambridgeshirepeterboroughcagov.cmis.uk.com/Meetings/tabid/70/ctl/ViewMeetingPublic/mid/397/Meeting/2200/Committee/63/Default.aspx" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(124,33,0);border:1pt windowtext;padding:0cm">Draft 2024/25 Corporate Strategy and Budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan 2024/2028</span></a>,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:11pt">‘Quarters quite the thing these days in Cambridge’ – a new Rose Quarter. Click on link</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://x.com/markrwilliamson/status/1729913561047044323?s=20" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(124,33,0);border:1pt windowtext;padding:0cm">https://x.com/markrwilliamson/status/1729913561047044323?s=20</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,176,80)">How will Cambridge handle the tourist industry?<span> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,176,80)"><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/mass-tourism-sparks-rise-in-locals-resentment/a-69728392" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://www.dw.com/en/mass-tourism-sparks-rise-in-locals-resentment/a-69728392</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The plans for the Guildhall and the Corn Exchange?<span> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/cambridge-bid-considers-its-options-after-hoteliers-reject-v-9375294/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/cambridge-bid-considers-its-options-after-hoteliers-reject-v-9375294/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:0.15pt;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">The<span> </span><i>Cambridge Independent</i><span> </span>reported (17 July) that to introduce the levy, Cambridge BID (Business Improvement District) needed majority support in a ballot of 23 hotels in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire. But<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px"><a href="https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/2-per-night-visitor-levy-proposal-for-cambridge-rejected-by-9374507/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:inherit;box-sizing:border-box" target="_blank"><b><span style="letter-spacing:0.15pt">only six voted in favour</span></b></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:0.15pt;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span>, with 16 saying no and one vote proving invalid.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">At the Sept 2023 Cambridge Market Stakeholders meeting the new Chief Executive of Cambridge BID referred to the investment bid submitted that week which she said was “commercially driven”. A recording of the meeting was not available to the public owing to technical problems but at a previous Market meeting City council officers had referred to a report on cultural events for the city centre (not available to the public).</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">In June <i>The Times</i><span> </span>reported that King’s College planned to<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">increase ticket prices for King’s College Chapel by up to 20 per cent. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/tourists-will-pay-more-to-meet-bills-for-kings-college-chapel-b7g0pqllb" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.666667px" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/tourists-will-pay-more-to-meet-bills-for-kings-college-chapel-b7g0pqllb</a><br></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">The report in <i>The Times</i> noted that the College’s proposed financial plans stated that they were based on “reasonably good prospects” and that “particularly that surpluses can be increased from visitors”. See also a similar, <i>Guardian </i>report, link below</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/22/china-cambridge-university-poet-xu-zhimo-farewell-property" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/22/china-cambridge-university-poet-xu-zhimo-farewell-property</a></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><i>The Times<span> </span></i>noted the role played by King’s College’s memorial garden in attracting tourists.<span> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">“</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Prominent on the shop’s website is a book dedicated to Xu Zhimo, a King’s alumnus described as the father of modern Chinese poetry, who is honoured in a memorial garden at the college. One of his most famous poems is called<span> </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box">Taking Leave of Cambridge Again</i>, written in the 1920s, and it attracts many Chinese tourists to the college”.<span> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><i>The<span> </span>Times<span> </span>r</i>eported that “the college planned for significant and continued growth in forecast income and that their business plan stated “drivers of continued tourism from China look robust.” Link below<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/tourists-will-pay-more-to-meet-bills-for-kings-college-chapel-b7g0pqllb" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/tourists-will-pay-more-to-meet-bills-for-kings-college-chapel-b7g0pqllb</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,176,80);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Are plans for the new Civic Quarter and hotels and cultural events based on the same tourism projections as those made by King's College ?</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The company Welcome to Cambridge makes the decisions about the city centre and its green spaces as councillors have delegated decision making to officers.<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14174291/officers" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14174291/officers</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#666666" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Board members </span><span style="font-size:14.666667px">include</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> representatives of:</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Cambridge Bid<span> </span><a href="https://www.cambridgebid.co.uk/bid-team-board-1" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://www.cambridgebid.co.uk/bid-team-board-1</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">( BID members include Cambridge University, colleges and the business group Cambridge Ahead)<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Curating Cambridge, formerly Fitzwilliam Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cambridge University<span> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">King’s College<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Cambridge City Council officers ( as cllors have delegated )<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Best wishes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:11pt">Wendy</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:11pt"> </span></p>Wendy Blythe<br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Chair, FeCRA</div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.fecra.org.uk" target="_blank">www.fecra.org.uk</a></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CambridgeRAs" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/CambridgeRAs</a></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/fecra2" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/fecra2</a></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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