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If your car has Passive Keyless Entry and Start (PKES), it may be susceptible to the ‘Relay Attack’’ theft method.
Toyota Hilux, Jaguar Landrover in particular, Range Rover, Lexus and Mercedes are all vehicles that are being targeted by thieves.
What is a ‘Relay Attack’?

Thieves will place a device near the car and another near the key.

The device relays messages between the key and the car, allowing the vehicle to open, even if the key is physically far away. Some devices can pick up a signal from more than 100 metres.
How can you prevent this?

• Purchase a signal blocking faraday pouch to store your keys in (including spares). Make sure the pouch is designed specifically for the keys and test it by inserting your fob into the pouch and attempting to open your vehicle.
• Refer to your user manual to see if your keyless entry fob can be deactivated at night.
• Check that you have a motion-sensor enabled fob, which goes to sleep when stored at home.

Anyone who believes they have been targeted, please contact us using our online reporting form or webchat, those without internet access should call 101.

If you believe a crime is in action, always call 999.
Find out more information on our website here.
Kind Regards,

Annabelle Mullee

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 ku.vo1779277596g.eri1779277596hsegd1779277596irbma1779277596c@yge1779277596tarts1779277596atadt1779277596essa1779277596 

Daniel Ashman – on behalf of the Highway Asset Management Team