Author: Clerk
Cambridgeshire Highways Event Diary – September 2021
Sept Our News – The Neighbourhood Watch National Newsletter
| SEPTEMBER ‘OUR NEWS’ OUT NOW We are delighted to bring you the September OUR NEWS edition – a monthly newsletter for all Neighbourhood Watch supporters across England and Wales. This edition introduces you to our Neighbour of the Year Awards 2021 – open for nominations from 14th September, the no-excuse approach to gas safety, fraud trends, rural crime reporting, discount offers from ERA and Patlock for our readers, and much more. We hope that you will enjoy reading our newsletter and share it with your community. Why not share this newsletter link https://bit.ly/OurNewsSept21 with your street WhatsApp groups, community Facebook groups or neighbourhood email groups to keep your neighbours safer and more connected. Best wishes NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH NETWORK, Central Support Team Follow us.. ourwatch.org.uk / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / LinkedIn Neighbourhood Watch Network is a charity registered in England & Wales, CIO no: 1173349 |
Neighbourhood Alert – Safer Speeding Team Day of Action
| Last month the Constabulary created a new team dedicated to cracking down on speeding drivers across the county’s cities, towns, villages and rural roads. Officers from the Special Constabulary including myself, Special Inspector Stephen Mudie, Special Sergeant Tom Howard and a band of Special Constables form the southern ‘Neighbourhood Safer Speed Team’. They volunteer their time responding to concerns from residents around speeding and anti-social driving. The team also support local Community Speedwatch groups with enforcement and education. Today (2 September) the team concentrated their efforts in Great Shelford, Fulbourn, Balsham, Hardwick and Milton Road. We issued six tickets for speeding, including one for travelling 59mph in a 40mph in Hardwick. We also issued two tickets for no seatbelts.   In addition, we gave words of advice to multiple drivers around speeding and spoke to riders about the laws around e-scooters. A lorry driver was reported for dangerous driving after he was seen on the A14 holding paperwork with one hand and entering a destination on his sat nav with the other. If speeding is an issue in your area, we’d like to know about it. Please report your concerns to us here. Special Inspector Stephen Mudie |
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.
Covid Community Champions Award
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.
Willingham Parish Council Meeting 1st September 2021
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