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Queen’s 90th Birthday – Street Party Advice

We have received the following advice from Cambridgeshire County Council:

After the success of street parties to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee in 2012, Cambridgeshire County Council is again making the road closure application process easier for anyone who wants to get their community together for the Queen’s 90th Birthday.

For small community events the council will not charge for road closures on cul-de-sac or residential roads without significant through traffic. If the closure is not one of these, please contact us for further advice and permissions.

There is no fee for a street party however we do ask you to complete an application form so we know when and where you are having these celebrations.

Click here for a copy of the application form, or collect a hard copy from the Parish Office.

If you have any queries or questions regarding street parties for events on the highway, please do not hesitate to contact Cambridgeshire County Council on 01223 507176 or email IHMC@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

Breaking News: Roadworks on High Street

The Parish Council has heard in the last couple of days that various small improvements to the High Street are to be carried out from today (Thursday 7th April) for the next 5 days.

Some of these improvements will necessitate up to 4-way traffic lights, which can introduce lengthy waits, so patience will be required.

It had been hoped that this would be carried out entirely during the school holidays, however, with the Junior and Infants on in-set on Monday the overlap will be minimised.

The work to be done includes a new bus stop by Winders Lane, a crossing point at the mouth of Home Close and improving the kerbing outside the Building Society.

There is also some work to ‘straighten’ the parking beside the new Zebra crossing which should make parking there easier. It is also intended to return some of the area to grass thus slightly extending the area of The Green.

 

Works to repair the A428 Cambridge Road bridge

We have received the following from Highways England:

Subject to weather conditions, we plan to close the A428 underneath the bridge to allow access to the embankment repairs east and westbound between the Madingley and Girton slip roads.

These works will include 24/7 static temporary traffic management lane closure of one of the two lanes with temporary vehicle restraint barrier. The remaining lane width will be reduced to 3.25m (10’ 6”) for the duration of the works.

The westbound A428 lane and width restrictions will commence from the 7 of April for up to 10 weeks and the eastbound A428 lane and width restriction will commence once work on the westbound carriageway has been completed, earliest 25 April for up to 10 weeks.

Please note it will not be possible for loads wider than 2.9m to pass whilst the restrictions are in place and if a vehicle is wider than 2.9m (9’ 6”) click here to view the attached diversion route which should be followed.

We apologise for any delays these works may create for your staff and customers.

If you have any enquiries please contact the Highways England Customer Contact Centre on 0300 123 5000, or by e-mail to info@highwaysengland.co.uk

 

March Full Council

Full Council was held on Monday 21st March, when PCSO Tony Martin attended to update the Council on Policing issues and take questions.  Unfortunately no residents attended, but Tony was able to outline current challenges faced, and to promote the Big Bad Wolf House Security Survey which all residents are urged to take part in to identify home security risks and take up the offer of help and advice from the Police on improving security.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/bad-wolf-test or on the Policing South Cambridgeshire Facebook page

Other items of note include:

  • Parish Elections for Histon & Impington. Receipt of Nominations need to be with South Cambridgeshire District Council by 4.00pm on Thursday 7th April 2016. Any resulting elections will be held on Thursday 5th May 2016. All prospective candidates will need to fill in the Nomination forms which are available via the Parish Office or from South Cambs District Council
  • Approval was given to funding of a programme of activity to deliver a Neighbourhood Plan for Histon and Impington – look out for ways of engaging with this Plan. Details will be displayed at the Annual Parish Meetings to be held 16 May. We also hope to be joined for a Question and Answer session by Rob Campbell of IVC at the APM
  • Projects planned by the Sustainability Working Party for 2016 have been unveiled including:
  • Food Waste Project
  • Food Event with HICOP
  • Hedgehog Bridge
  • Repair Café
  • Car sharing

The next meeting is Monday 18th April 2016 when a short formal agenda will be followed by an informal workshop session to look at the impact of the Parish Council in the community

In May the Annual Parish Meetings for the 2 parishes will be followed immediately by the Annual General Meeting of the Parish Council. All will be welcome

 

Guided Busway News – Track Closure 12-13 March

We have received the following from the Guided Busway Team:

Due to a track closure at Histon, some buses will be diverted and you may need to get on or off at a different stop

On Saturday 12 March route B towards Cambridge will be unable to serve the stop at Histon & Impington. Please use the stop on Cambridge Road, next to the shops, instead. Buses towards St. Ives are unaffected. Route B will also be unable to serve the stops in Orchard Park and will stop on Histon Road, just to the south of the King’s Hedges Road junction, instead. Buses towards St. Ives are unaffected.

Busway route A will be diverted through Orchard Park. Buses to Cambridge and St Ives will therefore operate on the opposite side to normal in Orchard Park and buses will still serve Cambridge Regional College and the Science Park as normal.

On Sunday 13 March route B will be unable to serve the stop at Histon & Impington towards Cambridge – please use the stop on Cambridge Road, next to the shops.

If you’re travelling to or from Orchard Park please use the stops on Histon Road, to the south of King’s Hedges Road. Orchard Park East and West cannot be served by route B.

 

 

HILF Monthly Book Sale

The Friends of Histon & Impington Library have another Booksale on Saturday 13th February from 10am – 12 noon.   Please go along to support the Friends in this fundraising event at the Library on School Hill. Sales will take place monthly, the second Saturday of every month thereafter through until April.

Donations of books, DVDs welcomed, please drop them off at the Library from the previous Friday, when the library is open 11am to 7pm

To find out more about their work, or to offer help email hisimplibraryfriends@gmail.com

 

 

Highways Committee

A meeting of the Highways Committee took place on Thursday 4th February

Items of special note include:

Local Highways Improvement Scheme – successful bid 2015-2016. The scheme is broken up into 4 elements:

Tactile crossing point at Home Close

Relocation of bus stop on High Street, swapping position with the parking bay to enable buses to pull into the stop safely

Bus stop marking on Winders Lane

Improvements to footway at The Green/High Street outside Cambridge Building Society

All these projects will be underway very soon, look out for project updates on our website

Narrow Lane ‘Problem Parking’ – residents attended the meeting to give Councillors an insight of the everyday issues faced on Narrow Lane with regards to parking and dangerous manoeuvres. Cllrs Stonham and Foster will be leading this project working closely with residents to come up with solutions to be costed and presented at the next meeting in April

A Working Party was formed with a focus on drafting a Parking Strategy for Histon & Impington. Cllr Jenkins is leading the working party. If you would like to give information about problem parking down your street please email admin@hisimp.net

 

Guided Busway Closures

We have received the following from Cambridgeshire County Council:

Dear Members

Urgent works  need to be carried out to repair a defect at Histon & Impington  Cambridge bound stop on the Guided Busway.  The nature of the works will require a full closure of The Busway at this stop from midnight on Friday 22nd January until 05.00 on Monday 25th January.  The replacement stop will be on Cambridge Road outside Anglia Fireplaces.  The maintenance track will remain open to pedestrians and cyclists all weekend.

The A and C Services will re-join the Busway through Orchard Park picking up at all stops on the way in and out.  The B service will pick up at the first stop after Kings Hedges Road on Histon Road on the way into Cambridge.  On the way out it will pick up/drop off at the stop at the top of Kings Hedges road on Histon Road.

Stagecoach will be placing stop closed signs at the Histon & Impington stop and information signs at the Orchard Park stop.

 

 

Full Council meeting Monday 18 January 7.30 p.m.

The Council will meet on Monday after the Christmas and New Year Break. High up on the agenda we will be setting the Precept request to South Cambs District Council for 2016 – 17. This will be the amount our residents will be charged on their Council Tax bill to be spent specifically in the parishes of Histon and Impington. For full Agenda see here

As always, all residents are welcome at our monthly meetings in the community room at the Recreation Ground, refreshments available from 7 p.m.

The Parish Council would like to thank those people who took time to answer the consultation on our spending. The results will be published on the website

 

New website

INCREASING BIODIVERSITY IN THE VILLAGES

Tree across footpath behind Manor Park

Storm Eunice

Christmas Tree Chipping event Saturday 8th January 2021