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FROM YOUR COUNTY COUNCILLOR
Have you checked when you concessionary bus pass runs out?
If your bus pass runs out you will be re-
fused free travel. The County Council have set up a quick and easy way to renew your bus pass online. Passes
can be renewed up to 6 weeks before their expiry date. Just go to
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/concessionary
. If
you cant get your renewal done online then call the number printed on the back of your pass. Or please contact
me for further help and information.
Please be advised that residents can come along to the Buckden village hall on the second Tuesday of the month
at 6.30pm for an hour to speak to me. I will be in the Aragon room and no appointment is necessary. My next sur-
gery will be held on
Tuesday 13
th
September 2016
.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me.
Julie Wisson, County Councillor Buckden and the Offords
07725 791459 01767 677837 Julie.Wisson@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
FROM YOUR DISTRICT COUNCILLOR
Electoral Register
All households will have been sent a form asking residents to check whether the information on the electoral reg-
ister is correct. Please complete these and return them to HDC. Reminders will be sent and if this fails canvassers
will call at households who have not responded.
Opportunities To Walk
Residents will be used to me singing the praises of our Rights of Way and I know that many take the opportunity
to use them if only to exercise the dog. If you are not confident about walking by yourself or would like a gentle
lead-in with the company of other walkers and a walk leader why not try one of the Huntingdonshire Health Walks.
Most months there is one starting from Buckden Village Hall. Contact 01480 387047 for details.
A14
Residents may have noticed preliminary work to the left of the road to Brampton. Construction work will start on
the widening of the A1 between Alconbury and Brampton Hut early in the new year.
A1
The Buckden roundabout continues to be the bane of our lives and I fear that there is very little that can be done
except to persuade drivers approaching it on the A1 to drive more slowly. I am currently trying to find a way to
have a filter onto the roundabout from Perry Road similar to that at the south end of High Street. Hopefully we
shall soon have some idea of what the proposed new route of the A1 may look like but there is little hope of a new
road until at the earliest 2025 – I hope to be around to see it!
Devolution
I hope that you have all taken the opportunity to make their views known by visiting the HDC web site and scroll
down to Consultations, or going to
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/devosurvey
Please don’t hesitate to contact me on 01480 810974 or
terry.hayward@huntingdonshire.gov.uk
With all best wishes, Terry Hayward (Cllr) Buckden Ward, Huntingdon District Council
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