Choir 2000 will be spreading some Christmas cheer Saturday 19th December on The Village Green. The open-air performance will start from 12.30pm for a 45 minute session
Show your support for this village based Choir and get in the festive spirit!
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Category Archives: Community
Have you seen our HAPPY TO CHAT SAFELY BENCHES popping up around our village?
Histon & Impington Parish Council together with the HI COVID-19 Group have signposted some of village benches to encourage people to sit together and have a chat! Especially in the midst of this second lock-down this could be the very time your neighbours might need someone to talk to!
On Friday morning I returned from my walk and someone who had been quite poorly offered me a coffee and I also found out at a friend had a nasty fall last week! I never knew! I returned home to feel so much happier for spending that time on such a bleak morning. It is so easy to be too busy and you can miss out on so much!
We have an exciting project going on the Parish Council to map out all our assets, starting with our Benches. Do you have time to take a quick photo of your local bench and share any stories around it? There are some benches with memorial plaques that people have donated to the village, what is the story behind them? Also, this year a new book has been published to this humble but important village asset – My Favourite Yorkshire Bench. What is your favourite Histon and Impington bench and why?
Please take some time and search out our sign posted benches. Your time could make a whole lot of difference to someone’s day including your own.
Yvonne Murray, Vice Chair, Histon & Impington Parish Council
The Greater Cambridge Partnership consultation for the Waterbeach to Cambridge Better Public Transport and Active Travel project is now live. The consultation runs until 14th December 2020.
Click here for up-to-date project information on the consultation website.
Waterbeach to Cambridge consultation page describes the four options they are seeking feedback on, has a brochure, maps and a video, and contains a Frequently Asked Questions section. It also has a link to the online survey.
If you are unable to respond to the consultation online you can contact the consultation team to request a paper copy of the survey by calling 01223 699906.
Remember, the consultation closes at midday on Monday 14 December 2020.
Many of you will have read in HI Hub, HI People and our Church Network magazine about the prestigious award of the Bishop of Ely’s Etheldreda Medal being awarded to our Parish Council Chairman Denis Payne in recognition of his outstanding and unselfish service to our Community.
Histon & Impington Parish Council wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate Denis as he accepts this this award and to give you an insight into the work that Denis has been doing in his role of Chairman.
Denis has been leading the Parish Council to increase the Community Engagement that you as residents see from Histon & Impington Parish Council. He has been working with our Clerk to make sure that information on new initiatives and council activities is made available on Histon & Impington Parish Council website, Hi Hub, HI People and our offline village and church magazines as a priority. He is also ensuring that any questions the residents are asking of the Council are promptly answered on HI People and taking any concerns back to the Councillor team for debate and decision.
On Friday the local Councils Conference held online for the very first time and Denis mobilised his team to ensure all the workshops being run at the Council were attended by Histon & Impington to give us as Councillors a better insight to the changing world of Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge and Peterborough Association of Local Councils (CAPALC) and Cambridgeshire ACRE. He is passionate about the use of Technology for improving communication and innovation on Histon & Impington Parish Council and is taking back all we learnt on Friday for discussion by Councillors.
He has also over the past few months been working to increase our outreach with the Parish Councils of North East Cambridgeshire to increase the strength of our responses to the many large developments that are now coming our way including Anglia Water’s Consultation around re-siting Milton Sewage Works, the North East Cambridge Area Action Plan (NECAAP) and the extension of Cambridge Science Park North under the recent publication of the Call for Sites
Please join with me in congratulating Denis on this important award.
Please keep watching all our communications channels to keep up with the new initiatives that are coming through Council under Denis’s leadership.
Congratulations Denis on this well deserved award.
Yvonne Murray, Vice-Chair, Histon & Impington Parish Council
310 children to move over to new Buxhall Farm site in January 2021
The name of a new £16 million primary school in Histon and Impington, which is set to open its doors to children initially in January 2021, has been announced by its academy trust sponsor Cambridge Primary Education Trust (CPET).
Histon and Impington Infant School will relocate from its current site in New School Road to the Buxhall Farm site off Glebe Way. From September 2021, it is planned that it will convert to a primary school and serve children aged 4-11, rather than the current range of 4-7 under the new name of Histon and Impington Park Primary.
Meanwhile, Histon and Impington Junior School, which has already expanded on its current site in readiness to extend its intake to ages 4-11, when it too becomes a full primary school, is to be called Histon and Impington Brook Primary.
The planning application for the new school at Buxhall Farm was approved by Cambridgeshire County Council’s Planning Committee in July 2019. A six-week consultation was held on plans for expanding education in Histon and Impington in October and November 2019 and work began on site shortly afterwards. Despite Covid-19 restrictions impacting delivery, building by R G Carter has continued in line with Government and Public Health England guidelines and will be completed on 1st December 2020.
With the new school building available, 310 Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils at Histon and Impington Infant School will move over to the Buxhall Farm site in January. Children and staff will immediately benefit from two reception classrooms, four Key Stage 1 classrooms, eight Key Stage 2 classrooms, two halls, staff administrative areas and a kitchen. An adjoining space will be used for Breakfast and After-School Clubs with the potential for wraparound care facilities for 52 children. Outside there will be allotment areas, playgrounds and sports pitches. The site currently occupied by Histon and Impington Infant School will be returned to Cambridgeshire County Council for community use.
Lesley Birch, CEO/Executive Principal of CPET, said: “We are thrilled to be able to announce the names of the two schools, which give Histon and Impington the enlarged primary provision it so desperately needs given the growth of our community. We felt it was important that the names of both Histon and Impington parishes were reflected in the names of both schools and our vision is for them both to be excellent primary schools that grow and entwine. We want them to offer common approaches, high standards and opportunities embedded in their curricular offer. Staff will be shared across the schools, with key stages and year groups deemed as one. As a Trust we are committed to providing an outstanding education for all our pupils by offering a broad and balanced curriculum whilst working closely with the local community. Our children are at the heart of everything we do, and having two all-through primary schools in Histon and Impington can only facilitate the delivery of that ethos. For our staff, as well, we are really excited about the development opportunities this brings.”
Jonathan Newman, Head of Histon and Impington Infant School (and Head of Histon and Impington Park Primary from September 2021), explained: “We are incredibly excited to be able to plan for the move to our new school, beginning in January 2021 when our current Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children will have the opportunity to access a state-of-the-art building with new, spacious facilities. Whilst this is ahead of our original timescale we feel that an earlier move to the new build will bring major benefits to our Foundation Stage pupils. CPET has a strong level of collaboration running right through its core and we will all be working hard as a collective to deliver the best possible education for children at both Histon and Impington Park Primary and Histon and Impington Brook Primary. We are aiming to have two excellent primary schools as these are required in our community.”
Helen Lorimer, Head of Histon and Impington Junior School (and Head of Histon and Impington Brook Primary from September 2021), added: “We are really looking forward to the next phase in the school’s history as an all-through primary school. It is wonderful that parents and children in the community can now benefit from two primary schools and access the quality of provision we have become known for. Our expectations are high at both schools.”
Jonathan Lewis, Service Director for Education at Cambridgeshire County and Peterborough City Councils, said: “We have been very aware of the increasing demand for more high-quality primary school provision within the local Histon and Impington community, and with these latest developments we have addressed this head on. I want to thank all those involved for their unfaltering dedication and determination to the project, which has seen the new school building completed almost within the originally proposed timeframe, despite the challenges presented by Covid-19. I look forward to continuing our close working relationship with CPET, and I know with their support and that of the Local Authority, Histon and Impington Park Primary and Histon and Impington Brook Primary will be well placed to support their local community, and to have a real positive impact on education outcomes in Cambridgeshire.”
Applications for children starting in Reception in September 2021 are now open at Histon and Impington Park Primary and Histon and Impington Brook Primary. Each has space for 60 reception children, with parents able to express a preference for which school they would like their child to attend upon application. The deadline for applications is 15th January 2021.
Whether you welcome trick or treaters or not, Cambridgeshire Constabulary have produced posters to display in your windows, click on the links below to download your poster
Histon and Impington Churches Together Invite you to the Light Treasure Hunt (and Pumpkin Parade)
Saturday 31 October from 5-8pm
Help to create a Pumpkin Parade outside the Saint Andrew’s Centre: Carve a happy, partying pumpkin and show it to the Café staff from 9am-2pm to receive a special cup cake then leave it outside by the railings to be lit later on.
Follow the clues to find your Treasure Trove of fun, food and light.
Clue 1 – ‘Water, grass and ducks, now where could that be? The starting place in our village is where we have all three’
Book a slot on eventbrite tickets or call 01223 320420
Dress Brightly!
All children welcome. Children must be supervised at all times. Adults are responsible for keeping to Covid-Safe guidelines throughout the event.
The Infant School PTA are hosting a Treasure Hunt around the villages during October half term!
You can complete the treasure hunt at any point during the week and then enter your answers to be in with a chance of winning a bundle of books.
To get a copy of the hunt emailed to you, the Infant School PTA are asking for donations to the paypal account tinyurl.com/InfantsPTA by Friday 23rd October.
All proceeds go towards school funds to buy new books and offer exciting opportunities for children.
We have received the following information of upcoming roadworks for Histon & Impington from Cambridgeshire County Council:
Histon:
BT – Station Road – Road Closure – 19th October – 23rd October – Constructing Jointing Chamber and Lay approx 28m of Duct 54/56 in footway / carriageway to link existing BT Boxes to facilitate spine cabling works. For full details and updates click here
Cambridgeshire County Council – Symonds Close – Road Closure – 29th October – 15th November – Micro asphalt works as per of the specialist treatments programme. For full details and updates click here
Cambridgeshire County Council – Lucketts Close – Road Closure – 29th October – 15th November – Micro asphalt works as per of the specialist treatments programme. For full details and updates click here
Cambridgeshire County Council – Alstead Road – Road Closure – 29th October – 14th November – Micro asphalt works as per of the specialist treatments programme. For full details and updates click here
Impington:
Cambridgeshire County Council – Cambridge Road (B1049) – Road Closure – 26th October – 27th November – Bridge Maintenance. For full details and updates click here
Cambridgeshire County Council – Highfield Road – Road Closure – 29th October – 15th November – Micro asphalt works as per of the specialist treatments programme. For full details and updates click here
For details of all roadworks taking place in the South Cambs, click here
Do you think vehicles being parked on the pavement is a problem in your area?
The Department of Transport are running a consultation until 22 November 2020, you can respond via:
- the online survey, (preferred method)
- by downloading the response form and emailing pavement.parking@dft.gov.uk
- emailing pavement.parking@dft.gov.uk directly.
Full details can be found on the gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking/pavement-parking-options-for-change#annex-c-full-list-of-consultation-questions
The Parish Council Highways Committee will be finalising their response at the next Highways Committee meeting on Monday 9th November 2020.
