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March 2020 Buckden Parish Council
Buckden Parish Council News...
Annual Parish Meeting
This will be held on 22nd April at 7pm in the Village Hall.
Please join us.
The agenda will include updates about:
• The Lucks Lane, Mill Road and Silver Street sites,
• Proposals for the Roundabout
• The Neighbourhood Plan
• Plans for the Village Hall and Recreation Ground
• Policing.
There will also be presentations from our County and District
Councillors.
Mill Road
We met with representatives from Cambridgeshire County
Council on 3rd February to present our case for traffic calming
measures on this road. The petition organised in the village to
reduce the speed limit was presented at the meeting. You
may have seen an article about the meeting in the Hunts Post.
Our bid is now being prioritised and we expect to hear the
outcome in March.
Climate Change Mitigation
We will be producing frequent updates going forward with
ideas about what we can all do to help. The first of these is on
this page below.
Buckden Neighbourhood Plan
We have nearly completed the update of the plan to take
account of the feedback received and will shortly be sub-
mitting the plan for inspection. We will keep you updated as
this progresses.
Silver Street and Mill Road developments
At the time of writing the hold on both developments was still
in place to end of February. We are still awaiting an update
from Highways England about proposals for the Roundabout.
If we hear anything in the next couple of weeks, we will put
an update on the Council web site and on Facebook.
Speedwatch
We now have several trained volunteers ready to start Speed-
watch again. The initial locations include Mill Road, Church
Street and Lucks Lane. We are also looking into doing HGV
watch to identify those lorries ignoring the warning signs. We
would still like more volunteers and have some further train-
ing dates in March. If you are interested in being involved,
please contact the Parish Clerk.
Perry Road
Following a successful speedwatch campaign in Perry Road
we are now awaiting the installation of a new mobile speed
camera which shows the actual speed of passing motorists,
gates marking the entry to the vil-
lage with much more prominent
speed signs and the introduction of a
40mph section of road. The speed
camera is mobile and can be placed
in designated sites around the village
at different times. We are finding out more about how this
can work.
Office opening hours are: Mon, Wed and Thursday 10.30-
2.00pm, Tuesday 2-4pm, Friday – closed.
Council Meetings
The next Council meeting will be at 7.30pm on Tuesday 10th
March. The meeting will include a 15-minute open forum. If
you want to speak at the meeting, please let us know what
you want to say, by contacting the Parish Clerk. You will get a
three-minute slot.
If required, the Council Planning Committee will meet on 10 th
and 24th March. Agendas for these meetings are posted on
the Parish notice boards no 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