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Buckden Roundabout

July 2019

Buckden Parish Council

Buckden Parish Council News...

Round-about-Buckden Walk.

The Round-about-Buckden Village Walk was officially

opened on 9

th

June. There was an excellent turn out for

this event. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the

day and to those that worked so hard to make this hap-

pen. Leaflets about the walk are available at the village

hall.

Cycle and Foot Paths

A very well attended workshop was held on 21

st

May to

understand residents’ concerns and priorities. A funding

request has now been submitted to Huntingdonshire

District Council (HDC) for a variety of projects including,

more dropped kerbs, a path between the bus stop and

bus shelter, improvements to High Street parking and

the Grafham cycle route.

Planning and Roads

Apologies for the length of this section but as you will be

aware there are three large development proposals cur-

rently under discussion, all at critical points.

The Church Commissioners who are developing the Sil-

ver Street site have made a proposal to put traffic lights

on the A1 roundabout, to reduce the amount of queue-

ing traffic on the High Street and Perry Road. (The devel-

opers own data suggests that in the am peak, queues on

the High Street could reach 300+ cars).

Whilst at first sight this appears attractive, the rounda-

bout is unfortunately too small to accommodate any

traffic queueing to turn right from the A1, into the High

Street or into Perry Road. This results in the outside lane

of the A1 being blocked, causing delays and potential

collisions. If you would like to see diagrams of this pro-

posal, please contact the clerk.

In relation to Lucks Lane we have received notification

of significant road closures near the site in the second

half of the year. We are still awaiting revised plans to

mitigate the impact on residents. We are also in discus-

sion with HDC about developer plans to raise the level

of the land on the site to better manage drainage.

The County Council and High-

ways England are so far refusing

to make further changes to the

dangerous A1/Stirtloe Lane junc-

tion. They are instead proposing

a 40mph speed restriction on the A1, southbound from

the roundabout, for the duration of the development, to

protect construction traffic turning into/out of Stirtloe

Lane. The plan is to remove this restriction once the de-

velopment is complete. It would appear that resident

safety is of a lower priority and we continue to object.

The undergrowth, banks and some of the hedges have

recently been cut back during bird breeding/nesting sea-

son. This has been drawn to the attention of HDC by the

Protect Buckden’s Future group.

The HDC Local Plan has been approved. As anticipated

the Mill Road development proposal is not included in

this plan.

We have introduced a new Large-Scale Planning Com-

mittee to focus on these developments. The agenda for

the meetings will available in advance.

New Appointments

Clive Gillam and Allan Jones have

been appointed as Parish Councillors. We now have a

full complement of 15 Councillors.

Office opening hours

are: Mon, Wed and Thursday

10.30-2.00pm, Tuesday 2-4pm, Friday – closed.

Council Meetings

The next meeting of the Council will be held at 7.30pm

on Tuesday 9

th

July. The meeting will include a 15 mi-

nute open form. If you want to speak at the meeting,

please let us know what you want to say, by writing to

the Parish Clerk, by 2

nd

July. You will get a three-minute

slot.

If required, the Council Planning Committee will meet

on Tuesday 25

th

June and Tuesday 11

th

July. Agendas for

these meetings are posted on the Parish notice boards

not later than the Saturday preceding the meeting.

All of the papers and reports for Council meetings are available on the Thursday before the meetings on the Council website

http://buckdenparishcouncil.org.uk

. This provides the opportunity to see the agenda, reports of work carried out by the Coun-

cil as well as reports from our County and District Councillors.

Any questions or comments on this report should be addressed to the Parish Clerk at: Buckden Parish Council, Buckden Village

Hall, Burberry Road, Buckden, PE19 SUY Telephone 01480 819407 Email

clerk@buckdenparishcouncil.org.uk