Barton Road Land Owners Group presented a public webinar Thursday evening (25th February 2021). This is the first public consultation by the group with a presentation and question and answer session. Their plans are for up to 2,800 properties on the green belt land north of Barton Road between Cambridge and the M11. The webniar was recorded and is now available on thier website.
More than 150 people attended the presentation bby Stephen Haines, Colin Brown, Nick Dines and Jenny Raine. The land is owned by several Cambridge Colleges and is currently farm land. The presentation discussed the ambitions of the group to develop a carbon neutral scheme with roughly 50% biodiverse open space. Probably of interest is the context in which the scheme is presented. Cambridge is planning for job and housing growth with current projects such as North Stowe, Waterbeach and Bourn Airfield accounting for about 37,000 new homes with a low growth need of 40,000 and a high growth of 63,000. Given this, there will be more building in and around Cambridge.
Have a look at the webinar and feel free to provide feedback to the developers or to Barton Parish Council.
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Please be aware that there is another scam seeming coming from official sources suggesting that you are entitle to a Council Tax reduction and that you should complete a form. DO NOT CLICK on the link. It is a scam designed to capture your details. IF in any doubt about any message you receive by email, text or any other means, ask a trusted friend if it is genuine and even then do not pass on any bank account details, passwards, usernames or any other information you are asked for. Better to be overly cautious rather than losing money or your identity.
Please contact us if you here of any other scams. I have copied part of the email below without the link.
Reminder – Council Tax Reduction
Dear Applicant,
We know that this is a difficult time for businesses and individuals. As part of its response to COVID-19, the government has approved the Council Tax Reduction to all councils in England and Wales.
HMRC will work out if you’re eligible and how much you may get.
Complete the secured form by click the button below:
Dear Barton Parish Council,
I am writing to you on behalf of the North Barton Road Land Owners Group, who have launched today their
Vision for South West Cambridge, a new, proposed, sustainable neighbourhood on land to the north of
Barton Road.
The Vision has been submitted in response to the Greater Cambridge Local Plan’s Call for Sites and the
landowners, who comprise Corpus Christi College, Downing College, Jesus College, St John’s College and
the University of Cambridge, are committed to informing the local community about their Vision.
Owing to the current restrictions in place as a result of Covid-19, we are unable to hold an in-person event
with local residents. However, we have created an online consultation programme, which includes a
comprehensive website outlining plans for the area. This website is launching this morning and can be
accessed via the following link: www.southwestcambridge.com
We are also hosting a series of webinars which will include a detailed presentation from the project team
and will go into further detail on key elements of the Vision.
The first of these webinars will be held on Thursday 25th February at 6pm and if you would like to attend,
you can sign up at this link: www.southwestcambridge.com/webinar.
In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like to get in touch with the project team please
contact me at or by calling 07917 453235.
Best wishes,
Imogen Bath
A Vision for South West Cambridge
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Dear members, volunteer coordinators and parish councillors
We wanted to send you a different sort of update for half term this week.
If you click on the following link, you will be able to view our half term update on Sway. This update intends to step back from the day to day running of your groups and to offer some bigger picture ideas for staying afloat during the pandemic and reducing loneliness in your communities, with inspiration from other groups within the district and across the country.
We are in the midst of a third lockdown and midwinter, though recent spells of sunshine have helped to ease it. This has the potential to be a dark time for many. The high of coming togethe…
Two other brief updates for this week, as we won’t be sending the usual e-bulletin on Thursday.
PPE for carers
The Government has confirmed that unpaid carers across the country, who do not live with the people they care for, can now benefit from free Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) through a new national scheme. Locally, if someone is a carer to a relative, and requires PPE, they could be entitled to free PPE until the end of June 2021. They will need to email to request an order form. PPE can then be collected from a PPE Hub in the county – these are based in Peterborough, Huntingdon, March, Cambridge (Trumpington).
Half term activities
We are seeing the vaccine roll out happen at great pace and over 12 million people have now received their COVID-19 jab. It is also very encouraging to see infection rates start to fall. This is mainly driven by the current lockdown and social distancing. However, the drop in positive cases will take longer to filter through to the number of deaths and hospitals are still under huge pressure. There are reasons to be hopeful and it is good to see the sacrifices of lockdown making a difference, but to ensure infection rates and hospital admissions continue going in the right direction, and to keep ourselves and those around us safe, it remains as important as ever to continue following the rules.
The County Council will be sharing ideas of things to do with children during half term on their social channels (Facebook orTwitter), and would encourage you to share these posts within your communities if you find them helpful.
Best wishes for the half term
Bill Handley
Lead Cabinet Member for Community Resilience, Health & Wellbeing
We’re warning the public to be vigilant of unsolicited emails promoting cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) investment opportunities. We’ve received over 750 reports this week about Bitcoin-related phishing emails that use fake celebrity endorsements to try and lure victims into investment scams. The links in the emails lead to fraudulent websites that are designed to steal your money, as well as personal and financial information.
How you can protect yourself:
Investment opportunities: Don’t be rushed into making an investment. Remember, legitimate organisations will never pressure you into making a transaction on the spot.
Seek advice first: Speak with a trusted friend or family members, and seek independent professional advice before making significant financial decisions.
FCA register: Use the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) register to check if the company is regulated by the FCA. If you deal with a firm (or individual) that isn’t regulated, you may not be covered by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) if things go wrong and you lose your money.
Report suspicious emails: If you have received an email which you’re not quite sure about, you can report it to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service by forwarding the email to –
To see examples of the Bitcoin-related phishing emails that have been reported to us, follow Action Fraud on Twitter or Facebook.
Councillor Andy Martin attended recent meetings by Anthony Browne MP and, separately, by the Haslingfield-based action group Cambridge Approaches (CA).
Anthony Browne has written to the Railways Minister Chris Heaton-Harris to ask for another public consoltation on the EWR route into Cambridge. See Anthony’s Facebook page for the response from Chris Heaton-Harris and Anthony’s comments. Anthony believes the original public consulation was flawed and that fair consideration was not given to all routes into Cambridge nor that the public were properly consulted.
Following on from the above, the Hasligfield action group (CA) has been busy. There is now a well organized team helping CA based in Eversden. Eversden were on the CA call and stated that they had set up a working party to tackel EWR comprising of a legal group, marketing group and fund raising group. CA with the support of Eversden has engaged Leigh Day solicitors to prepare a legal challenge to any southern route proposed by EWR. The group missed the period allowed for a legal challenge on the current EWR option E route, but are planning to challenge future detailed route plans if they can.
CA have asked local Parish Councils to sign a letter to the DoT asking for fair evalutation of a northern route:
“We, the undersigned, request that the Department for Transport ensures that the proposal for a Northern route for the Central Section of the East West Rail, such as that proposed by CamBedRailRoad with widespread support amongst residents of South Cambridgeshire, is fairly evaluated at the same time and to the same degree as alternative routes proposed by East West Rail Company.”
They are also asking people to sign a petition which is on the CamBedRailRoad website. The goal is for 10,000 signatures. So far there are 6500.
If you have any comments or questions on EWR please contact Barton Parish Council through the website or through the clerk.
Some weeks ago it was reported that two white males in a transit van were offering free gravel whilst looking at people’s houses in Comberton. Since then several sheds have been broken into. They were seen in Kingston and Toft recently as well.
They are known to the police, so if you see them in action phone 999. The vehicle reg is FV16 KXJ.
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Panther Taxis are offering FREE* transport (up to the value of £10 each way), in partitioned vehicles, to those without transport; who are vulnerable or need ‘door to door’ assistance and/or financial support to get to their vaccination appointment simply and safely.
You can take advantage of this free transport offer in 3 simple steps:
1 – Call 01223 715715 quoting ‘vaccine help’ and state your appointment time and destination.
2 – We will collect you and take you to your destination.
You will only pay any outstanding balance for the journey over £10.
3 – Call 01223 715715 when your appointment is finished (quoting ‘vaccine help’) and we will collect you within 10 minutes of your call.
When you reach your destination, you will only pay any outstanding balance for the journey over £10.
We are funding and facilitating these vital journeys with an initial £10,000 ‘Covid fighting fund’ for those that need help most across Cambridge – a commitment to local people from your local independent taxi company.
In a time when safety is paramount, we also wanted to highlight the 5 points of protection that we have implemented in order to protect our customers on their journeys.
1 – Partitioned vehicles available
2 – Drivers & passengers wearing face coverings
3️ – Vehicles cleaned between journeys
4 – Hand sanitiser available
5️ – Contactless payment
Please SHARE, and spread the word so that we can get the message out there to those who need our support the most.
*Journeys to and from Cambridge vaccination centres up to the value of £10 each way
Kind regards,
Paul Clare,
General Manager.
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Due to the large number of Vaccine Hubs, urgent support is required at one of our testing hubs within the region.
The roles range from queue management, registration assistant (welcoming people to the testing site), test operative (actually processing the testing sample, in full PPE, training provided), result logger (logs result), evaluation (asks people why they’ve come, would they come again) and general role (would include cleaning).
Fen Road, Cambridge
The test site is open Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st 10- 6pm. Staff would be expected to arrive by 9.15/9.30 latest. The last test is 5.30pm, so we would hope staff could finish by 6.15-6.30.
If you are in a position where you can help support the testing hub, please contact Nikitta Vanterpool –
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Criminals are using the COVID-19 vaccine as a way to target the public by tricking them to hand over cash or financial details. They are sending convincing-looking text messages letting people know they are eligible for the vaccine or phoning people directly pretending to be from the NHS, or local pharmacy.
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