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Notice of work at The Brook

A long standing plan to remove some of the silt from the Brook is about to go ahead. The last time this was done was in 2011. This will also provide an opportunity to develop some more bankside vegetation on the north side of The Brook, similar to the beds that were introduced on the south side in 2004. These three new beds will take the silt that will be dredged out, so it won’t have to be taken away and disposed of. They will also provide a more natural edge to The Brook and help to absorb water at times of high rain fall.

As the depth of The Brook will be increased the total volume of water it holds will be unchanged.

The work is currently scheduled to start on Monday 8th March by South Cambs DC’s Drainage Team using materials funded by the Parish Council. It’s hoped that the work will be completed within that week, weather permitting.

 

 

 

Community Warden Required in Histon & Impington

Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is an independent charitable organisation which exists to improve the quality of life for older people in the county.

The Community Warden supports older people to remain living in their own homes by providing them with practical daily support and assistance. Tasks such as collecting prescriptions, small items of shopping, helping with letters and phone calls and ensuring safety and well-being. The warden will also be responsible for the promotion of the service within the area.

The position is for 20 hours per week and the service is provided from Monday to Friday. The salary is £9,880pa.

Interviews will be carried out in line with COVID19 Guidelines via a virtual meeting.   The successful candidate will be required to undertake Disclosure and Barring Service check at an enhanced level.

Closing date for applications: Friday 12th March 2021 Interviews:  Tuesday 23rd March  2021

For an application pack or more information please contact: E-mail:  recruitment@ageukcap.org.uk

or see https://www.ageuk.org.uk/cambridgeshireandpeterborough/about-us/work-for-us/

 

 

Draft Villages Public Art Trail

As the Tony Hillier sculptures are now in place, we have started work on producing an art trail for the village, detailing the location of the current Public Art works located in Histon and Impington. This draft map can be found here: HIPC Public Art Map

Eventually we will link this to our website, and include links to acquire more information. but if you are out and about in the coming weeks please use the map to visit places of interest. that you might not have realised are there!

 

Come and meet the Tony Hillier sculptures in their new homes

After many weeks of planning, five of Tony Hillier’s statues have joined Truffle the pig in finding new homes around the villages.

As many of you will know, Truffle moved to his new location at the Community Orchard in Manor Field last weekend, and over the past two days the Camel, Andy Cap, Grandfather and Grandson, Man and Dog and the Spider have also been on their travels and arrived at their new locations.

Their new locations are as follows:

Camel – at the entrance to the village, next to the B1049 and the Coppice

Andy Cap – Clay Close Lane Pocket Park

Grandfather and Grandson – Cottenham Road and the B1049 junction

Man and Dog – Homefield Park

Spider – in a tree on the Village Green (see if you can find him!)

Some of the statues have temporary fencing around them while they settle in, and on the signs on each one you will find some links using the app What3Words to the next two nearest statues. This is a free app to download and maps the whole world into three metre squares using three random words – it is a very exact location tool, and currently being recommended by the emergency services.

Later in the year we are hoping to link these and other art installations together into an art trail, so you can wander round the villages finding the sites.

 

Full Council meeting Monday 18th January 2021

A Full Council meeting was held via Zoom on Monday 18th January 2021

Items of note:

  • Connections Bus Project: An update was received from the Connections Bus Project. Despite lockdown, they are still finding ways to engage with young people, including being able to successfully transfer their planned babysitting course online to Zoom,  and going out into the village to see how our young people  are doing.
  • Precept setting for 2021/2022: Each of the Parish Council committees had submitted budget requests for the forthcoming financial year to the Finance and Assets committee.  After approval of these, a recommendation was made to Full Council to request the precept for 2021-2022 from South Cambridgeshire District Council to increase by 2%. This took into consideration the impact of Covid-19 on income and expenditure and equates to an approximate increase of £2 per year for a Band D property.

 

Histon & Impington – getting online and connected

We would like to say Thank You to Colin Myles and his daughter Anya who have done some amazing work in recycling old laptops for children without access to computers in our village schools. Whilst Colin and Anya’s work began with our local schools, it has now expanded across the UK and globally to get other people interested in recycling laptops and iPads to increase the ability for people to be able to get online.

Histon & Impington Parish Council are pleased and proud to have played a small part in supporting Colin’s initiative.  We really appreciate Colin reaching out to us.  If you, or someone you know, could benefit from getting on line at this time, please do contact us (details below) or speak to your Street Co-ordinator; we would be pleased to help if we can, and this offer is open to anyone in Histon & Impington of any age. The Parish Council have a small amount of funds to help initiatives like Colin’s, and we were so pleased he approached us with a request for funding a part of this project.  We would be happy to consider any similar request where the pandemic has you needing some help, or maybe you are working on a project which could help other people and you need some support.   Please do get in touch!

Contact Details: yvonne.murray@hisimp.net

 

Your chance to speak on planning applications

We’ve got two planning applications out for comment that could make a real difference to our community.

The first is for the redevelopment of the Station Stores (Kendal Court/Anglia Fireplaces) site in Impington. This was originally registered in September, and objections were recorded from the community and a range of statutory consultees. The developers have responded by making a number of small changes, and by rejecting a number of the objections.

The application is at: https://tinyurl.com/y3vv6tze – and objections are due in by Tuesday. The Parish Council will be objecting, and has asked that the final decision will be taken by SCDC’s Planning Committee.  Even if you objected before, please have a look at the revisions, and if your points still stand, do let SCDC know that. If you’re emailing your objection, please send a copy to the Parish Council on helpdesk@hisimp.net

The second is for the development of a “Retirement Village” on land owned by Hain Daniels at the end of Home Close.

The closing date for objections is February 8th – but there’s a lot to read, and four people have already registered their concerns. HIHub (https://www.hihub.info) will be running the first of a couple of articles on this today (14th Jan).

The application is at: https://tinyurl.com/yycljzl8  Again, if you are emailing your response, please do let the Parish Council have a copy.

 

Christmas Tree Chipping Saturday 9th January 2021

The Parish Council is pleased to remind everyone that we will once again be offering a Christmas Tree Chipping Service, kindly provided by Brookfield Groundcare, on Saturday 9th January 2021 between 9 and 11 am. Trees can be left at the Village Green next to the pump, as tidily as possible, from January 6th onwards, or at the Villa Road/Crescent triangle from the same date. Please note the last call will be at 11 am on the Sarturday, please do not leave trees after this time.

In a lovely circular fashion, the chippings from the Christmas trees will be given to the HI Trees project, for mulching around the planted trees later in the New Year.

 

Theories of Home Sculpture Installation

Many of you will have taken part in the community workshops organised in 2018/2019 to design a public art installation, celebrating the history and tradition of jelly making in the villages of Histon and Impington. Work has continued with the artist, Charlotte Howarth of Making Marks Ltd., on the second phase of the project, the creation and installation of the pieces, six small scale sculptures carved in stone and also cast in bronze, to make groups of “jellies” that reflect the food heritage of the villages.  The project is funded from a grant from Amey Cespa, funding from Section 106 Public Art monies received by the Parish Council and a donation from the Red Lion Beer Festival.

Once all the grant funding had been secured for the project, Charlotte was commissioned to make the sculptures and we are pleased to say that the stone jellies were installed at Doctor’s Close Pocket Park just before Christmas and the bronze versions have now been installed in The Coppice.   There is some signage to follow in January.  The project has been supported by expertise from Half Moon Creative Arts CIC.

The locations were chosen to encourage the community to use the pocket park and wooded area for recreation and relaxation, making the areas more of a destination for residents.  Eventually it is hoped that both locations will be included in an art trail around the village which will list all the sites to be visited and encourage people to explore their villages in more detail.

(Photograph by Kim Fyson)

 

Covid-19: what’s the right thing for us to do?

It’s bad.

Maybe we’ve all seen it coming as Covid infection rates have crept up again locally but this weekend’s announcement of tier 4 rules in Peterborough and several adjacent counties, and the severe curtailment of the Christmas option to just one day of limited mixing have made it very clear. We are fortunate to be still in tier 2 and although we can enjoy its freedoms we need to be smart and not to abuse them.

As a community it’s difficult to fault our behaviour. Individual compliance with the rules has been good and our shops and hospitality venues have served us well but this virus has a way of spreading itself. We must not let up at all. It’s probably appropriate for us all to reconsider our Christmas plans and decide not to engage in any activity which increases the risk of bringing more infection into our community or of taking it to others.

Although Prof Chris Whitty was referring to tier 4 territories when he told people with travel plans to unpack their bags maybe it’s something we should consider as well.

It’s not the end of the world. Vaccines are coming and we will see an impact on the pandemic and associated deaths when relatively low levels of uptake are achieved.

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day, and although we will continue to feel the cold it will get lighter and warmer in the new year. By the time we get to March, the anniversary of the start of the first lockdown, we can be positive that the infection rate will have declined, that millions of people will have been vaccinated and that we will be able to return to some of the freedoms we enjoyed through the summer. But we will need to be patient.

It’s going to be a quiet Christmas this year but that doesn’t mean that it won’t be Christmas. Technology will help to mitigate the sadness of not being able to meet up and just perhaps it’ll be better with a little less commercialisation. So let’s embrace the situation as it is and enjoy it.

And this year as we share our good wishes of Christmas and the New Year let’s place special emphasis on a healthy 2021.

 

New website

INCREASING BIODIVERSITY IN THE VILLAGES

Tree across footpath behind Manor Park

Storm Eunice

Christmas Tree Chipping event Saturday 8th January 2021