Author: Clerk

Road Closures – A14 C2H – week commencing 6th Sept 2021

There are no planned closures for week commencing 6th September 2021 in relation to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.

A reminder that B1514 Brampton Road will be closed on both Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 8am to 5pm this weekend between Scholars Avenue and Edison Bell Way.

The new Views Common road opened this morning as planned and provides an alternative route to Spittals roundabout via Hinchingbrooke Park Road.

For all queries relating to the scheme, please email: A14CambridgeHuntingdon@highwaysengland.co.uk

Cambridge County Council – Riparian Guidance and survey

As part of our Community Flood Action Programme, Cambridge County Council are updating their riparian guidance document to make it more useful for those living next to a watercourse. As this document is aimed at residents and landowners, they wish to seek their views and get a better understanding of their awareness of riparian issues. The Council have therefore prepared a short survey (5 questions)

A link to the survey is here: https://forms.office.com/r/5HQbNqGtba

They plan to keep the survey open until 30th September but they may extend this if necessary.

In addition, the County Council would be grateful of any photos communities may have of watercourses, to include in the guidance document. If anyone would like to submit photos, please email them to CFAP@cambridgeshire.gov.uk, and include the name they would like to be credited as.

Works by Anglian Water in Cottenham

Cottenham Parish Council have received the following update from Anglian Water, regarding the upcoming works in Cottenham; Anglian Water have made the decision to postpone the work.

Following our conversations, and having listened to the concerns of the residents of Cottenham, we have decided to delay the works. This means that the work (and associated traffic management) will not begin on the 1st September. I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for an inadvertent confusion caused by this process.

Whilst these works are essential, we have taken on board the comments that you have kindly provided, and have made the decision to remodel and amend the works to understand if we can complete with less impact on the village. We did originally plan for these works to go ahead in the summer, as you will know, however this wasn’t possible due to Highways England work on the A14.

It will likely be a number of months before we are able to begin this work due to highways permits and notices, but I would be hugely grateful if we could work together to minimise the impact, appreciating that you all have a great understanding of the community and resident’s needs. As these plans are developed we will be doing much more communication with individuals and businesses.

A14 C 2 H Road Closures week commencing 30th August 2021

Please note Views Common, Huntingdon is due to open on the morning of Friday 3 September. The new road will provide a link between Hinchingbrooke Park Road and the A1307 that will connect between Huntingdon to Spittals roundabout.

For all queries relating to the scheme, please email: A14CambridgeHuntingdon@highwaysengland.co.uk

Further updateson scheme progress can be found on our website.

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Willingham Supplementary Flood Plan – Can you help?

Following the floods at the end of last year, Willingham Parish Council are currently reinforcing their existing flood plan.

One of the routes the Council is looking at will be possibly forming a small flood management team and recruiting residents to act as neighbourhood support volunteers. 

It is hoped to be able to divide the village into zones so that when a risk of flood is highlighted, the management team would be activated and would co-ordinate the neighbourhood support volunteers. The volunteers would notify residents in a particular zone at risk of flooding and distribute advisory information where appropriate.  By dividing the village this way, it is hoped that more people can be reached but in order to achieve this, volunteers will be needed to support the plan.

If you would like to be involved as either a member of the management team or as a neighbourhood support volunteer or would like more information then please forward your details to the Parish Clerk on email@willinghampc.org.uk or telephone 01954 261027

Upcoming Roadworks/closures in Cottenham

Anglian Water is due to carry out works in Cottenham which may have an impact on Willingham residents. Please see below

The works will be done in 2 phases; with phase 1 covering the High Street and phase 2 covering Rampton Road.

Phase 1 Part 1 – 01/09/21 – 21/09/21

Cottenham High Street between Rooks Street and Broad Lane with a full road closure of this part of the High Street.

Access to the High Street for traffic from Rooks Street will be stopped

Access to Broad Lane will be controlled via 2-way lights

Phase 1 Part 2 – 22/09/21 – 11/10/21

Cottenham High Street between Lambs Lane and Margett Street with a full road closure of this part of the High Street

Access to the High Street for traffic from Margett Street will be stopped

This area of work will also affect the Fire station (opposite Margett Street junction) as they will only be able to turn left onto the High Street

Phase 1 Part 3 – 12/10/21 – 22/10/21

Cottenham High Street between Lambs Lane and Curringtons Close with a full road closure of this part of the High Street.

Access to the High Street for traffic from Lambs Lane will be stopped

Access to the Cottenham Tyre and Autocentre will be maintained from the South

Phase 2 Part 1 – 25/10/21 – 12/11/21

Cottenham Rampton Road; Oakington junction with Rampton Rd will have 2 way lights.

The road will be closed at the junction of Rampton Road to Ellis Close junction

Phase 2 Part 2 – 15/11/21 – 23/11/21

Cottenham Rampton Road; closure of Rampton Road at The Green with 2 way lights on Histon Road

Haden Way Development – Notice of works w/c 23 August 2021

Dear Residents,

We are writing to inform you that we will be conducting our final set of piling works at our development on the land of Hayden Way on w/c 23.08.21. This work is to be completed within one week and we have noise and vibration assessment equipment set up to ensure we remain inside of our planning obligations.

We hope that this will not cause any undue disturbance and we maintain committed to keeping all activities on site as unintrusive as possible to current residents.

Kind Regards

Brampton Valley Homes Ltd

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Against Scams Partnership

Beware BT Phishing E-mails One of our wonderful supporters has been in touch to let us know about a fake BT e-mail that they have received, trying to ‘phish’ for personal and account information. This may be doing the rounds so, as with all our scam warnings, please share this message onwards to your e-mail contacts, on social media and community webpages to help people to be aware and stay safe.  Of course if you’re not a customer of BT then you’re likely to suspect that this is a scam but in many cases of phishing e-mails, the fraudster has obtained the e-mail addresses of people who are customers of a company to target them with fake e-mails from the company in question. 

Please see the image of the bogus e-mail shared by our supporter below.  Fake BT e-mail image

Tell-tale signs that this e-mail is not genuine are:
The sender’s address is not a BT e-mail address (in this case the sender was 72227283@clouddata(dot)com ). Tip: you can check a senders address by hovering over or clicking on their name.
The customer not being addressed by name. Usually your bank or a company that you have an account with will know your name and use it to greet you.
The ‘T’ in BT being used in lower case in the body of the message.
Spelling errors e.g. buttton. 
The pressure or urgency to act i.e. within 2 days. Scammers like to apply pressure so someone might not take the time to think or seek advice.
The request for the recipient to click a link and give personal/account/banking information. This is the ultimate aim of a phishing e-mail – to obtain your information by deception, in order that it can be used to steal your money or trick you again in the future.

Phishing e-mails like this can be reported by forwarding to report@phishing.gov.uk .

For advice about scams contact Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline on 0808 223 1133. If you lose money to a fraudster report it to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or on their website www.actionfraud.police.uk . Please share and beware! Thank you. Follow us on Twitter| Facebook|Cambridgeshire.gov.uk/against-scams CCC PCC

Action Fraud Alert – Vaccine Passport Scams


Action Fraud has received over 700 reports from members of the public about fake emails purporting to be from the NHS. The emails claim to be able to provide people with a “digital passport” that “proves you have been vaccinated against COVID-19”. These emails are fake, and the links within them lead to genuine-looking websites that steal your personal and financial information.

How to protect yourself:

In the UK, coronavirus vaccines will only be available via the National Health Services of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. You can be contacted by the NHS, your employer, a GP surgery or pharmacy local to you, to receive your vaccine. Remember, the vaccine is free of charge. At no point will you be asked to pay. The NHS will never ask you for your bank account or card details. The NHS will never ask you for your PIN or banking passwords. The NHS will never arrive unannounced at your home to administer the vaccine. The NHS will never ask you to prove your identity by sending copies of personal documents such as your passport, driving licence, bills or pay slips.   Your vaccination status can be obtained for free through the official NHS app, NHS website, or by calling the NHS on 119.

How to report scams:

If you receive a call you believe to be fraudulent, hang up. If you are suspicious about an email you have received, you can report it by forwarding the email to: report@phishing.gov.uk. Suspicious text messages can also be reported by forwarding them to the number: 7726 (it’s free of charge).

If you believe you are the victim of a fraud, please report this to Action Fraud as soon as possible by calling 0300 123 2040 or visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk.