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Buckden Roundabout
October 2019
Buckden Parish Council
Buckden Parish Council News...
Buckden Neighbourhood Plan
Thank you to everyone who attended the workshops.
We are now incorporating your feedback into the Plan prior to
submitting a final version to Huntingdon District Council. The
document will be available for review shortly.
Allotments
Peter Emeleus has recently resigned as Chair of the Allot-
ments Group. We would like to express our sincere thanks to
Peter for the significant contribution he has made to a variety
of improvements at the site.
BT work in the High Street
We have heard unofficially that BT are intending to undertake
cabling work in the High Street shortly. We are trying to find
out more information and will update you as soon as possible.
There is clearly a concern that this may coincide with the
Lucks Lane closure.
Mill Road
We have applied for funding for traffic calming measures in
Mill Road. If successful it will enable a range of options to be
evaluated and implemented.
A1 Junction with Stirtloe Lane
Please be aware of the increasing numbers of slow-moving
construction vehicles entering and exiting this junction. The
council have received several reports of ‘near misses’ at the
junction. These have referred to Highways England. Please let
the Clerk know if you witness any
significant incidents.
The A1 and The Roundabout
Many of you have expressed serious
concerns about safety at the roundabout, which is increasing-
ly becoming a ‘no go area’ for some. We are still waiting to
hear from Highways England about the proposals for traffic
lights on the roundabout and will update you as soon as possi-
ble. The Silver Street development application is currently ‘on
hold’ pending the outcome of this review.
New Councillor
David Duncan has been appointed as a new Parish Councillor.
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 8
th
October. The meeting will include a 15-minute
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
1st October. You will get a three-minute slot.
If required, the Council Planning Committee will meet on 8
th
and 22
nd
October. 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
Buckden Footpaths
Maintaining our paths
At the recent launch of the Round About Buckden circular walk
it was good to see so many of our residents wanting to get out
into the fresh air to enjoy our local countryside. This is great
news and we want to maintain such enthusiasm, as it can only
benefit people’s health and well-being. To do so we need to
keep our network of footpaths in good condition. Sadly with
the cutbacks in funding of local authorities neither Huntingdon
District Council or Cambridgeshire County Council have the
capacity to maintain our footpaths in good order. So if we
want to keep our paths accessible we need to do it ourselves
and we are asking for your help with this.
We wish to set up a “Friends of Buckden Footpaths” scheme.
We are asking residents to adopt a section of footpath and
ensure that it remains passable and well signed. Even a
monthly check would be a great help. If the answer is ‘Yes’
please could you express your interest by calling in on the Par-
ish Clerk or emailing her at:
clerk@buckdenparishcouncil.org.uk
putting ‘Friends of Foot-
paths Group’ in the subject line. We would be very grateful if
you can spare some time to help our community in this way.
The scheme will take a little time to set up but we hope to get
it organised over the autumn ready for going live in the New
Year. The more people who volunteer the easier it will be for
everyone. Please do get in touch.
Expanding our footpath network
The Parish Council has been successful in getting the Anglian
Water Road adopted as a footpath. We were able to do that
as we could show evidence that it had been walked by a num-
ber of people over the years. We would like to continue with
this type of project and so if there any paths that you walk,
that you think could be designated a public footpath, please
let us know. We have some ideas about one or two paths that
we might try to get adopted and we will update you on this in
the near future.