Friends of Castle Mound

09/10/2023

https://x.com/doubledownnews/status/1710623936851984689?s=61&t=uIgD0haH7ogxa7qHebJwJw

What would you do if a foreign military knocked down your door, beat up your mother, imprisoned your father, & stole your house? What would you do if you were told for the rest of your life you would have to live in a cage, besieged? on 75yrs of violence & oppression:

24/07/2019

Party leaders must listen to voters: work together NOW.

27/05/2019

Join Anthony Carpen - Historian and me Isabel Lambourne- one of the founders of Friends of Castle Mound, at Cambridge central library, talking about this site as a place of community

Sat, Jun 1, 2019, 11:00 AM: Following the announcement at https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/council-announces-future-of-shire-hall-and-promises-access-to-castle-mound-9070600/ on the future

23/05/2019

Please sign and share this new petition to oppose leasing of the Shire Hall estate. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/ShireHall
Please ask others to do the same.

More than 3,000 people from Cambridgeshire signed the first petition calling to keep the site in Council ownership. Now the County Council have opted for a 40 year lease to Brookgate - who have demolished other historical and beautiful Cambridge buildings. During this time, untold changes and destru...

22/05/2019

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/call-for-shire-hall-sale-to-be-reversed-after-6-8m-data-move-costs-revealed-9071063/

This cost is on top of the £20 million the council already projects for the move out of Shire Hall to the new headquarters in Alconbury Weald

19/05/2019

Post views here or email them to me at
[email protected]

Also send to Councillor Steve Count who tabled the original motion suggesting the sale/ lease at [email protected]

Letting local news and press know your opinion is a positive action

Email them to the BBC on the contact form at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47933096

Email Cambridge Independent
[email protected]
Phone: 01223 320320

Contact ITVNews Anglia at
[email protected]
Phone: 08448 816900

Tell us what issues and stories you think we should be investigating.

19/05/2019

Shire Hall, a beautiful and historic example of 1930s style and detailing, however, is not a listed building. The existing architecture should be preserved. I am particularly concerned about the windows

19/05/2019

Deep disappointment that although the Shire Hall site remains technically in Council ownership for now, it will be leased out on 40 year lease.

Move shows disrespect for heritage of the site and value it holds to community as a council building.

This means we will not retain Shire Hall use as registry office, for other services or for public council meetings.

It is a very large site and could have provided in different sections: shelter for rough sleepers, affordable business space for start ups and a centre to celebrate and inform on local history.

These are only a few ideas and all your suggestions are welcome. Please email them to me and also send them to Steve Count, head of to the County Council.

The weak and short sighted vision of County Council leadership like that of the Conservative central government brings again impoverishment of our society and local community.

I will do all in my power to rebel and change this and ask you if you want to please do the same.

16/05/2019

16/05/2019

With my colleagues in balcony behind me holding up the banner