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Our fact sheet of 5 October 2026
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Our fact sheet to residents, supporters and every councillor in the county on the register’s dates and the blocked emails.
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CHRIST'S LANE ACTION GROUP
CHRIST'S COLLEGE LIBRARY APPLICATION 26/02109/FUL PLANNING COMMITTEE · WED 7 OCT
BACKDATED.
Officer report's denials untrue. THE DENIAL, IN THE OFFICERS' REPORT TO THE PLANNING COMMITTEE (PAGE 88) “Officers are of the view that all representations are uploaded against dates that reflect when they were uploaded.”
OUR DOCUMENTS BACKDATED
THE COLLEGE'S DOCUMENTS BACKDATED
Held back from the public register, then shown under earlier dates.
Its documents go up on time.
OUR EXAMPLE
THE COLLEGE'S EXAMPLE
Backdated to: 25 Sept Published date: 1 October Put up after the officers' report.
Backdated to: 11 June Published date: 21 July Kept off the register until we complained.
Our letter listing errors in the Conservation Officer's report
The Bursar's lobbying email to all 42 councillors
BLOCKED. We've been SPOCCed.
Every email we send is blocked and detained in a Council mailbox set up for our group alone. We are kept off the planning register, our legal correspondence is blocked, and councillors are blocked from hearing from their own constituents. 17 DOCUMENTS
Kept off the register until after the officers' report
LEGAL NOTICES
Kept from us until after the judge had ruled
PLANNING COMMITTEE CORRESPONDENCE
Held for 55 hours, until the weekend
“I take a dim view of any public authority backdating a document in a manner which could give a false impression to the public.” A High Court judge, 2014, on another council that dated its website to the day a document reached it. That council's permission was quashed. R (Joicey) v Northumberland CC.
Write by 12 noon today, Monday 5 October. Fill the Guildhall Wednesday 7 October, 10am.
Email democratic.services@cambridge.gov.uk: “I object to application 26/02109/FUL and ask the Planning Committee to refuse it or, at the least, defer item 6 until after the High Court hearing on 20 October. Please circulate this to every member of the Planning Committee.” Copy residents@christs-lane.com. Come. Christ's College Library is item 6. Forward this to everyone you know in Cambridge.
The first permission is quashed. The second is frozen.
On Tuesday 20 October 2026 the High Court quashed the first approval, 25/02161/FUL, on all four grounds of our claim. The Secretary of State has frozen the permission. On 13 October she directed the Council not to grant it without her authorisation while she considers whether to call the application in, six days after the identical application 26/02109/FUL was controversially approved. If you would like to support a call in, write to us and we will tell you how.
Email residents@christs-lane.com.