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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.