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This is for UK Power Network to complete a near electrical connection. The closure that the High Street will be closed from 08:00 to 17:00 from 23rd to 27th September 2024 east of Mailes Close for approximately 50 m. Access should be available to properties although there may be delays to make the site safe. We are not sure if there will be access to the recreation ground car park or if this will fall within the road works.

Does anyone know what happened to the Play Area sign that was attached to the pole by the fence at the recreation ground playground? A pdf of the sign is attached. Please contact the Parish Council.

The latest Barton Greenway Plans will be shown in the Village Hall prior to the Parish Council meeting on Tuesday 3rd September 2024. These will include the changes asked for and agreed for New Road and Comberton Road as well as an opportunity to review and discuss the biodiversity planting schemes which is part of the Greenways plans. Plans and presentation documents are now on the website under the Traffic working group page (attachments).

We have been asked to share and submit feedback on the priority for maintaining our footpaths, cycle paths and other public right of ways. The consultation back ground is in the attached document and contents of the email from CCC Highways below. There is an interactive map where comments can be added. This map has layers for cyclist, walkers and wheelers, and one for public right of ways. A quick review shows that most of the pavements in Barton are classed second lowest and lowest priority (out of 6 classes) whereas the shared pavement (cycle path) between Comberton, Barton and Cambridge is classed as the second highest priority. Please provide comments either directly to CCC Highways or to the Parish Council.

Dear Parish or Town Clerk/Chair

I would like to make you aware of a consultation which has been launched by the Highways & Transport service at Cambridgeshire County Council. This follows proposals for a consultation which were presented to the Council’s Highways & Transport Committee in January 2024.  The committee paper can be found here: Document.ashx (cmis.uk.com). The consultation seeks input regarding proposals for an ‘Active Travel Hierarchy’. 

The Active Travel Hierarchy looks to introduce a way of prioritising maintenance activities to better reflect the use of the highway network by walkers, cyclists and other non-motorised traffic.  This will support the Council’s Active Travel Strategy and its ambition to make walking or cycling the natural choice for shorter journeys, in turn helping to reduce road traffic congestion, improve journey times, and contributing to carbon reduction in the County.

We would like to invite your feedback on the proposals, so that we can better understand which active travel routes and public rights of way are considered important by our communities, and what maintenance activities stakeholders might like us to prioritise.

This is a public consultation that is being promoted on the Council’s social media channels. We would also appreciate you promoting this consultation locally in your parish communities, to encourage wide participation, so we can gauge residents’ views.

The consultation is open for responses until Monday 16th September.  I have attached a background document to this email, but you can also access the consultation website here: https://consultcambs.uk.engagementhq.com/active-travel-hierarchy. Please feel free to circulate this link amongst your local residents.  You can do this by sharing social media posts that started from 22 July on the County Council’s channels, which will be continuing in the weeks ahead.

Please direct any questions about the consultation to  

Daniel Ashman – on behalf of the Highway Asset Management Team

Attached are the latest plans for the section of Barton Greenways from the end of New Road to the 30 mph/40 mph on Comberton Road. (The New Road/A603 junction is not part of this section of work.)

These plans will be available to see and discuss at Barton Village Hall in the hour before the next Parish Council meeting on Tuesday evening 3rd September 2024. Your Parish Council asked for changes to earlier plans and all the changes have been implemented in the new plan.

Note that the plans still have to be approved by the Greater Cambridge Partnership and if approved a Traffic Regulation Order will go out for consultation. It is unlikely that work will start before next year.