Parish News
Comberton Road will be closed near Hines Close from Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th July so that Cambridge Water can connect the supply to the new builds at 15 Comberton Road. This will cause some disruption to through traffic between Comberton and Barton. Access is provided for residents and emergency vehicles only.
Parish Council News
South Cambridgeshire District Council declared a climate emergency in November 2019. Barton Parish Council is keen to take action against climate change and to actively become part of the solution. We are therefore in the process to creating a climate action plan and would welcome suggestions and feedback from interested residents. Please contact the clerk, Ian Minto, at if you would like to form part of the climate action team.
Our first step taken in creating our action plan was for Councillor Chloe Langford to be selected (on behalf of Barton Parish Council) for one of only 15 places on the Net Zero Now course which is being run by Cambridge Carbon Footprint (www.cambridgecarbonfootprint.org). The ethos behind the course is to create a network of community action against the climate change emergency. Over the course of eight two-hour sessions, Chloe will be firstly educated on climate change and all its facets then assisted in creating an action plan for Barton.
Chloe will keep the website updated with brief summaries of each session as well as useful links to articles and websites to share this knowledge and experience with the wider community. Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome – please email .
Chloe’s aims in attending this course are to create a Barton climate action plan which will debunk the “geeky” associations of being green and include affordable changes we all can make to begin to reduce the carbon footprint of our lovely village.
Parish News
Reminder that the next Parish Council meeting will be at Barton Village Hall. (See the agenda for details.)
Parish News
Comberton Road closure has been delayed by one week. The plan is for Cambridge Water to connect new builds at 15 Comberton Road to the mains water supply. Work will now take place between Monday 12th July and Wednesday 14th July.
Vaccination update
The Prime Minister provided an update on the vaccination programme and confirmed that vaccination greatly reduces transmission with two doses providing a high degree of protection against serious illness and death. The Government’s target of offering vaccines to all adults by the end of July has been brought forward to the new 19 July date.
Parish News
There will be a Parish Council meeting on 6th July 2021. This will be the first one in a long time that will be in the Village Hall. COVID restrictions will apply. Please let the Clerk know if you plan to attend as numbers will be limited by Village Hall capacity. The agenda will be posted as usual on the website and Parish Council notice board.
Comberton Road will be closed for 3 days from Monday 5th July 2021 in order to connect new properties to the mains water. Access will be maintained for residents and emergency vehicles.
Parish News
We have a vacancy for the Parish Council. Formal notice has been posted on the notice board as is attached. If anyone is interested in becoming a Councillor please contact the Clerk, Ian Minto.
As you may have seen in recent press the University of Cambridge has committed to achieving a science-based zero carbon target for its estate by 2048.
As part of its efforts to achieve this target, the University is hoping to build a solar farm on land to the south east of the Lordsbridge Radio telescope, to provide low carbon electricity to service the University’s estate and significantly reduce our carbon emissions.
Ahead of a planning application being made hopefully later this year, we’re launching a public consultation to obtain views and inform the scheme design.
More detail around the proposals, and a short questionnaire will be ‘live’ on the University’s website from Monday 14th June at: https://www.em.admin.cam.ac.uk/what-we-do/development-estate/planning-applications/proposed-solar-farm-near-lordsbridge-radio
We’re looking to obtain views by the end of June ideally.
The University is intending to issue letters to residents in the vicinity of the site asap, but I would be very grateful if you could pass this information on to members of your Parish Council and post the details in any appropriate location that your Parish uses to convey information to your residents so that we can do our best to draw the proposals to the public’s attention and seek to gain views from as many people as possible.
If you have any queries with regard to any of the information above or the proposals themselves, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Kind regards,
Mike Osbourn MRTPI
Parish News
Comberton Road is likely to be closed for a short period over the beginning of the week 5th to 7th July 2021. There are three new houses being built on the plot of 15 Comberton Road and Cambridge Water will be connecting supplies to the three new properties. This will involve closing Comberton Road between Hines Close and 18 Comberton Road for potentially a few days. Diversions will be in place for the period (see attachment).
Parish News
This is the last reminder to submit response to East West Rail consultation by 9th June. You may have seen BBC Look East special report on EWR which seemed to give a wide balanced review of the project. It is probably worth remembering that this is a national project linking Oxford to Cambridge with many business keen to see transport links between the two great University cities dramatically improved. The goal for this “arc” is to support existing jobs, generate many thousands of new jobs and provide links to new housing developments planned along the route. It should also be worth remembering that any new railway will impact local communities no matter which route between Bedford and Cambridge is chosen. Rail is seen as a means of reducing road usage and hence should have a benefit in terms of the environment. It the route does go into Cambridge South (as seems to be the preferred option), then we need to ensure that mitigations measures are in place to reduce the impact and we should be pushing for a net gain of at least 20% in habitat improvements along the route.
Wednesday is the last day for submissions, so please make sure your views are submitted. Barton Parish Council, having listened to residents, will also submitted our comments.
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