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Growing Up in 
What is special about 
growing up in 
Cambridge? 
Cycling 
Urban legends 
– eg reality 
checkpoint 
Science festival 
Arts and 
culture offer 
History, a sense of 
place and scope to 
make a difference We should have pride but no 
differentiation – town/gown 
or state/private school 
Cambridge 
We want to give all children 
a ‘Cambridge education’ (but 
not just about ‘the uni’) 
Green spaces 
everywhere (but are 
they accessible?) 
Cows! 
Diverse communities 
eg Mill Road 
Adults in 
Cambridge have a 
sense of pride, but 
it needs to extend 
to all children in 
Cambridge
Growing Up in 
Cambridge 
Challenges: 
•Low levels of funding 
•Lack of access to Cambridge University facilities compared to other university cities 
– the facilities need to be for everyone, not just university members 
•Understanding what is on offer 
•Universal take up of opportunities 
Plan 
•Ask children what is special about growing up in Cambridge, and what needs to 
change 
•Challenge all providers – esp universities, colleges, research bodies, large orgs to 
increase access 
•Better connection of opportunities to schools, communities & the people 
•Stronger sense of community amongst children – funding family partnership co-ordinators
Transport in & 
around Cambridge 
Challenges: 
•We have still not solved the problem of congestion 
Ideas 
•Joined-up thinking on planning & transport between city & county councils 
•More environmentally-friendly buses (eg like London hybrids) 
•Integrated & affordable public transport, timed for connections Swiss style – eg 
synchronising bus leaving times just after trains arrive 
•Safe, easy cycling for all ages and abilities 
•Car traffic flow management 
•School buses to get the school runs off the road. (Cost to business of congestion 
here?) 
•‘Greenways’ to link existing pockets of green spaces & to get pedestrians/cyclists 
traveling through the city to bypass it
Transport in & 
around Cambridge 
Ideas continued… 
•More capacity on trains 
•More capacity at stations – naming North Cambridge ‘Chesterton Intl!’ 
•More bridges 
•Consider congestion charging 
•Better cycle paths – cycle-segregation from main traffic 
•More lighting, but dimmed between 1am-5am 
•Developments only approved if there are suitable improvements to infrastructure 
•Cambridge University and large developers to employ planning officers and 
specialist cycling officers to work with Cambridge City Council and residents, rather 
than against them.
Cambridge as a 
cultural leader 1/2 
Cambridge is a cultural city. Our vision? To be a world leader. What does this mean 
and how do we build capacity? 
-Recognise our cultural communities living and working in Cambridge. This requires 
having a broad conversation involving lots of people about what our strengths (and 
weaknesses) are. 
-Raise the profile of our cultural communities more – and make them much more 
accessible 
-Make use of under-used spaces for performances and rehearsals – esp empty 
buildings that are boarded up. Think the old bingo hall by Lloyds Bank. 
-Make use of science park, schools, empty shops, community centres, libraries and 
business facilities for cultural events – esp during the evenings
Cambridge as a 
cultural leader 2/2 
Cambridge is a cultural city. Our vision? To be a world leader. What does this mean 
and how do we build capacity? 
•Using Cambridge events to profile local cultural communities eg Big Weekend. 
Cambridge Folk Festival and Mill Road winter fair. Small things co-ordinated can 
make a big difference 
•Single co-ordinating point for all event planners in and around Cambridge to ensure 
events targeting the same communities do not clash. Eg BTC Cambridge clashed with 
Open Cambridge, the Cambridge Sustainable Food Fair and the Stourbridge Fair. 
Cambridge City Council is the obvious hosting organisation but who can help fund 
such a unit? 
•How can we encourage people to become participants in cultural activities rather 
than passive watchers? Eg making music – where is the route for adults to 
learn/relearn musical instruments collectively?
A single council for 
Greater Cambridge 
Why a ‘unitary’ council’? 
•Current governance is tri-partite: Cambridgeshire County Council, South 
Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council. 
•Fast growth needs strong guidance 
•Challenges are ever-more complex & interlinked, eg housing, transport and 
telecommunications/broadband 
•Clarity of who is responsible will maximise contributions – ‘It’s the council’ must 
have meaning 
•Local authority must be a key enabler – eg leveraging funding (“We’ll contribute 
£1,000 if businesses contribute £2,000 etc) 
•Local authority must be a convener – being able to bring together large local 
influential organisations to make decisions in the best interests of the whole city, not 
just their own institution
A single council for 
Greater Cambridge 
Campaigning for a ‘unitary’ council’? 
•Interested people have to campaign/be champions for the idea 
•Build local alliances 
•Learn the lessons from other unitary authorities near by, eg Luton, Peterborough, 
Thurrock.
Housing in 
Cambridge 
How do you solve a problem like housing when demand not just from people who 
want to live and work here, but from financiers and international investors is so 
high? 
Local 
•Share data for more intelligent planning 
•Support for shared housing 
•Mixed-use development, car free development 
•Proper enforcement of planning permission & contracts 
•More council housing/social housing/housing co-ops 
•Ethical property companies 
•Have architects engaging with residents ‘at design stage’, not at planning permission 
stage 
National 
•Stop developers gaming the planning system
What does failure 
look like? 1/4 
A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ 
all things Be the change – Cambridge. 
•Destroy the idea of group engagement – ‘you people have no influence, so don’t 
bother’ 
•Destroy the idea that an individual can make a difference – ‘It’s too much hard work 
and you won’t achieve anything 
•Ruin the reputations of those involved/personal attacks – ‘Oh that Antony bloke – 
he’s too big for his boots – and that dragon?!!?’ 
•Only involve a small group of people – you’ll get biased outcomes that way which 
discredit the findings. ‘Well you didn’t involve that group of people so your findings 
are flawed therefore we’ll ignore everything you say! 
•Create too big a burden falling on too few people 
• -Individual stress 
• Limited action 
• Functional/organisational failure – eg scrutiny of planning
What does failure 
look like? 2/4 
A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ 
all things Be the change – Cambridge. 
•Exacerbate any existing tensions that may exist between people and individuals 
rather than encouraging them to work together to solve shared problems 
•Ensure you have the grumpiest and least passionate people as the frontline face of 
your institutions – creating unresponsive cultures 
•Reduce the number of people involve by a variety of means 
• Distraction – ‘Are you also involved in this project that will take up all of your 
time?’ 
• Accessibility – ‘Come to our meeting on the edge of town with no public 
transport at a time you cannot make!’ 
• Someone else is responsible, ‘…and that person/institution isn’t you so leave 
it alone!’
What does failure 
look like? 3/4 
A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ 
all things Be the change – Cambridge. 
•Increase burdens on individuals even more 
• No focus 
• Too much going on – make sure too many ideas on the plate of too few 
people 
• Ensure resources are spread thin so nothing happens 
•Lobby against change by using existing power structures 
• Behind the scenes stonewalling 
• Public-facing campaign – “If you do this ‘Be the change – Cambridge’ thing, 
house prices will go down and what about X, Y & Z? Easier to carry on as 
normal!’ 
• Get other organisations to lobby against the project 
•Show examples of where similar attempts have failed 
•Drip-feed ideas of how this is not worthwhile – ridicule suggestions and the people 
involved
What does failure 
look like? 4/4 
A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ 
all things Be the change – Cambridge. 
•Make a list of all of those people and groups that have not been involved, and show 
that ‘Good’ is the enemy of ‘Perfect’. 
•Allow the loudest and most negative voices to dominate 
•Make things going wrong unacceptable and fatal to the project rather than allowing 
a culture of ‘things not going right first time is fine – lets capture the learning from it 
and apply it to the things we do in the future’. 
•Make it clear that this approach is far too radical and dangerous

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Be the change - Cambridge: Conversation Cafe summaries

  • 1. Growing Up in What is special about growing up in Cambridge? Cycling Urban legends – eg reality checkpoint Science festival Arts and culture offer History, a sense of place and scope to make a difference We should have pride but no differentiation – town/gown or state/private school Cambridge We want to give all children a ‘Cambridge education’ (but not just about ‘the uni’) Green spaces everywhere (but are they accessible?) Cows! Diverse communities eg Mill Road Adults in Cambridge have a sense of pride, but it needs to extend to all children in Cambridge
  • 2. Growing Up in Cambridge Challenges: •Low levels of funding •Lack of access to Cambridge University facilities compared to other university cities – the facilities need to be for everyone, not just university members •Understanding what is on offer •Universal take up of opportunities Plan •Ask children what is special about growing up in Cambridge, and what needs to change •Challenge all providers – esp universities, colleges, research bodies, large orgs to increase access •Better connection of opportunities to schools, communities & the people •Stronger sense of community amongst children – funding family partnership co-ordinators
  • 3. Transport in & around Cambridge Challenges: •We have still not solved the problem of congestion Ideas •Joined-up thinking on planning & transport between city & county councils •More environmentally-friendly buses (eg like London hybrids) •Integrated & affordable public transport, timed for connections Swiss style – eg synchronising bus leaving times just after trains arrive •Safe, easy cycling for all ages and abilities •Car traffic flow management •School buses to get the school runs off the road. (Cost to business of congestion here?) •‘Greenways’ to link existing pockets of green spaces & to get pedestrians/cyclists traveling through the city to bypass it
  • 4. Transport in & around Cambridge Ideas continued… •More capacity on trains •More capacity at stations – naming North Cambridge ‘Chesterton Intl!’ •More bridges •Consider congestion charging •Better cycle paths – cycle-segregation from main traffic •More lighting, but dimmed between 1am-5am •Developments only approved if there are suitable improvements to infrastructure •Cambridge University and large developers to employ planning officers and specialist cycling officers to work with Cambridge City Council and residents, rather than against them.
  • 5. Cambridge as a cultural leader 1/2 Cambridge is a cultural city. Our vision? To be a world leader. What does this mean and how do we build capacity? -Recognise our cultural communities living and working in Cambridge. This requires having a broad conversation involving lots of people about what our strengths (and weaknesses) are. -Raise the profile of our cultural communities more – and make them much more accessible -Make use of under-used spaces for performances and rehearsals – esp empty buildings that are boarded up. Think the old bingo hall by Lloyds Bank. -Make use of science park, schools, empty shops, community centres, libraries and business facilities for cultural events – esp during the evenings
  • 6. Cambridge as a cultural leader 2/2 Cambridge is a cultural city. Our vision? To be a world leader. What does this mean and how do we build capacity? •Using Cambridge events to profile local cultural communities eg Big Weekend. Cambridge Folk Festival and Mill Road winter fair. Small things co-ordinated can make a big difference •Single co-ordinating point for all event planners in and around Cambridge to ensure events targeting the same communities do not clash. Eg BTC Cambridge clashed with Open Cambridge, the Cambridge Sustainable Food Fair and the Stourbridge Fair. Cambridge City Council is the obvious hosting organisation but who can help fund such a unit? •How can we encourage people to become participants in cultural activities rather than passive watchers? Eg making music – where is the route for adults to learn/relearn musical instruments collectively?
  • 7. A single council for Greater Cambridge Why a ‘unitary’ council’? •Current governance is tri-partite: Cambridgeshire County Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council. •Fast growth needs strong guidance •Challenges are ever-more complex & interlinked, eg housing, transport and telecommunications/broadband •Clarity of who is responsible will maximise contributions – ‘It’s the council’ must have meaning •Local authority must be a key enabler – eg leveraging funding (“We’ll contribute £1,000 if businesses contribute £2,000 etc) •Local authority must be a convener – being able to bring together large local influential organisations to make decisions in the best interests of the whole city, not just their own institution
  • 8. A single council for Greater Cambridge Campaigning for a ‘unitary’ council’? •Interested people have to campaign/be champions for the idea •Build local alliances •Learn the lessons from other unitary authorities near by, eg Luton, Peterborough, Thurrock.
  • 9. Housing in Cambridge How do you solve a problem like housing when demand not just from people who want to live and work here, but from financiers and international investors is so high? Local •Share data for more intelligent planning •Support for shared housing •Mixed-use development, car free development •Proper enforcement of planning permission & contracts •More council housing/social housing/housing co-ops •Ethical property companies •Have architects engaging with residents ‘at design stage’, not at planning permission stage National •Stop developers gaming the planning system
  • 10. What does failure look like? 1/4 A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ all things Be the change – Cambridge. •Destroy the idea of group engagement – ‘you people have no influence, so don’t bother’ •Destroy the idea that an individual can make a difference – ‘It’s too much hard work and you won’t achieve anything •Ruin the reputations of those involved/personal attacks – ‘Oh that Antony bloke – he’s too big for his boots – and that dragon?!!?’ •Only involve a small group of people – you’ll get biased outcomes that way which discredit the findings. ‘Well you didn’t involve that group of people so your findings are flawed therefore we’ll ignore everything you say! •Create too big a burden falling on too few people • -Individual stress • Limited action • Functional/organisational failure – eg scrutiny of planning
  • 11. What does failure look like? 2/4 A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ all things Be the change – Cambridge. •Exacerbate any existing tensions that may exist between people and individuals rather than encouraging them to work together to solve shared problems •Ensure you have the grumpiest and least passionate people as the frontline face of your institutions – creating unresponsive cultures •Reduce the number of people involve by a variety of means • Distraction – ‘Are you also involved in this project that will take up all of your time?’ • Accessibility – ‘Come to our meeting on the edge of town with no public transport at a time you cannot make!’ • Someone else is responsible, ‘…and that person/institution isn’t you so leave it alone!’
  • 12. What does failure look like? 3/4 A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ all things Be the change – Cambridge. •Increase burdens on individuals even more • No focus • Too much going on – make sure too many ideas on the plate of too few people • Ensure resources are spread thin so nothing happens •Lobby against change by using existing power structures • Behind the scenes stonewalling • Public-facing campaign – “If you do this ‘Be the change – Cambridge’ thing, house prices will go down and what about X, Y & Z? Easier to carry on as normal!’ • Get other organisations to lobby against the project •Show examples of where similar attempts have failed •Drip-feed ideas of how this is not worthwhile – ridicule suggestions and the people involved
  • 13. What does failure look like? 4/4 A risk-reversal exercise, we looked at what we might do if we wanted to ‘sabotage’ all things Be the change – Cambridge. •Make a list of all of those people and groups that have not been involved, and show that ‘Good’ is the enemy of ‘Perfect’. •Allow the loudest and most negative voices to dominate •Make things going wrong unacceptable and fatal to the project rather than allowing a culture of ‘things not going right first time is fine – lets capture the learning from it and apply it to the things we do in the future’. •Make it clear that this approach is far too radical and dangerous