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Annual Report
Please see the middle pages for the ‘pull out and keep’ Parish Council Annual Report 2014-15. This is
a summary of your Parish Council’s activities and spending over the last year.
Annual Parish Meeting
The Annual Parish Meeting took place on Tuesday 24 th March 2015. The evening had a distinct
‘Policing’ theme with a report from our local PCSO, Alan Newman, together with a presentation of her
work by Rebecca Avery, a member of the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s team. The
Parish Council would like to thank all the Buckden societies that also gave reports at that meeting.
Footpath from Cranfield Close to Stirtloe
The Parish Council have become aware that this footpath, one of our most popular, is rather uneven.
We would ask that all walkers take particular care when walking this section of footpath 1.
Any questions or comments on this report can be addressed to the Parish Clerk John Chase, Clerk to
Buckden Parish Council, Buckden Village Hall, Burberry Road, Buckden PE19 5UY, Telephone (01480)
819407, Email
Do not forget our website at
The annual meeting of the Parish Council, including a 15 minute Public Forum will be held on Tuesday
12th May 2015 starting at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Members of the public are welcome to attend and raise
any Buckden related issues.
If required, the Parish Council’s Planning Committee will meet on Tuesday 12th and Tuesday 26th May
starting 7pm. Agendas for the meetings are posted on the Parish Council notice boards not later than the Satur-
day preceding the meeting
Buckden Photographic Competition
Dig those cameras out! After the success of the Parish Council Photo Competition in 2014, we are
planning to run the competition again this year and there will be opportunities for photographers of
all ages to enter and display their best photographs at the Buckden Festival Fete on 4th July. There
will be three age categories, 10 years old and under, 11 to 16, and adult (17 and up). Within each
age category there will be three themes:
Selfie;
Clouds;
Insects and spiders.
All photographs must have been taken by the entrant who must live or work in Buckden, Diddington
or Stirtloe. However the photographs need not be taken in the village – they can be taken any-
where. The maximum size will be A3 including any mount, and there is a maximum number of en-
tries of three photographs per theme. All the photographs will be displayed at the Festival.
The judges will consider both creative and technical merit in making their choice. Points will be
awarded for first, second and third in each theme within each age category: the overall winner of
each age category will be awarded the trophy for that age, and there will also be modest cash priz-
es for winners of each theme.
An entry form will be printed in the next (June) edition of the Roundabout.