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Buckden Roundabout

August 2019

St Hugh’s and Methodist Church

Catholic Church of St Hugh of Lincoln,

High Street, Buckden

Telephone:

01480 810344

Website:

http://stjosephsthugh.org/

In the pastoral care of the Claretian Missionaries:

Fr. Antony Arockiam CMF

Fr. Jim Kennedy CMF

Fr. Paul Peter Alphonse CMF

Sunday Masses

- Saturday evening at 6.30 pm and Sundays at

9.45 am.

Weekday Masses

- Monday to Saturday at 9.15 am in the Lady

Chapel.

Morning and Evening Prayer

Monday to Saturday at 9 am and

5.45 pm in the Lady Chapel.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation

every Saturday from 9.45 am

to 10.15 am.

The Rosary

is prayed each Monday morning after the 9.30 am

Mass.

Catechism Classes

for school age children each Sunday from

9.00 am in term time. Formal classes for primary age children.

Silent Adoration.

There is half an hour of silent adoration be-

fore the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday from 9.45 am and

ending with Benediction at 10.15 am.

Would any newcomers to the Village who are Catholics

please let Fr. Antony know their contact details

.

Buckden Methodist Church

Minister:

Rev. Paul Beard (01480 473444)

Stewards:

Angie Barnes (810102)

Bob Baxter (810092)

Carol Swepstone (810053)

Services in August

Sunday 4th

10.30 a.m.

Morning Service: Mrs. Pauline Zahner

Sunday 11

th

10.30a.m.

Morning Service: Miss Vivien Almond

Sunday 18

th

10.30a.m.

Morning Service: Local Arrangement

Sunday 25

th

10.30a.m.

Morning Service: Mr. Colin Webber

Activities in August

Please note, coffee mornings and soup lunch will be taking a

break in August but do join us for

Holidays at Home: Monday -

Wednesday afternoons, 5

th

-7

th

August.

Diary Dates

Looking ahead to

September

please make a note of our two

annual

fund-raisers:

Friday 6

th

10a.m.

Shoebox Coffee Morning

Friday 27th

10a.m. Macmillan Coffee Morning

Everyone is very welcome to any of these events.

Traffic lights on the roundabout?

The Church Commissioners who are the owners of the Silver

Street development site have proposed putting traffic lights on

the roundabout.

This is their solution to enable the development of 340 houses

to go ahead. They currently predict a queue of 300+ cars, over

a mile, in the High Street in the morning rush hour once the

developments are complete. The development is currently on

hold pending a solution to this issue.

This specific proposal is problematic. The roundabout is too

small for right turning traffic to queue at a red light without

blocking the A1. This is shown on the diagram. A similar pro-

posal at the Sandy roundabout made the situation worse and

had to be removed.

The Parish Council is very aware that

the roundabout is a major cause for

concern for everyone in the village.

With no strategic bypass in sight, we

need an alternative solution. We are

continuing to talk to Highways Eng-

land to try to identify a solution that

will work. However we feel very

strongly that any solution must be

implemented for a trial period of, say

6 months, during which time the de-

velopment must be on hold. The

worst of all worlds is a traffic solution

that doesn’t work for Buckden, the

houses are built, the developers walk

away, and we are left with an unac-

ceptable level of queueing.

We would really welcome your views

on this. Buckden Parish Clerk

clerk@buckdenparishcouncil.org.uk