Following a break for August the the Parish Council met on Monday 21st September. Ten members of the public attended for part of the meeting.

The Chairman of the Council is Cllr David Jenkins and the Clerk is Angela Young. The Council normally meets monthly on the third Monday.

Items worthy of note from this month’s agenda include:

• A group of architects shared with the meeting a model (pictured above) of the Station Gateway proposals and display units. These will be used for the public open session to be held from 5pm to 7.30 p.m. on Thursday 24th September at the community room at the Recreation Ground. The information will be displayed locally after the event;
• Capital expenditure was agreed for replacement cricket nets and for the completion of fencing work at the Recreation Ground;
• Funding was agreed for a trial senior youth club for young people aged 15+ at and in partnership with Histon Football Club starting 4 November for 7 weeks. All information on this exciting opportunity available from youth.worker@hisimp.net;
• Council agreed to request that street lights along footpath areas in Histon are dimmed from midnight and not switched off as proposed by County Council;
• Council has agreed to convene a meeting of potential funding partners for drainage work identified by Hyder regarding surface water management. £300,000 is required to be raised locally to enable a scheme to proceed which should benefit houses at severe risk of flooding in future; and
• Cllr Josephine Teague has agreed to attend a meeting regarding Modern Day Slavery and report back to our community on issues via our website or newsletter

Draft minutes will be available on the website shortly. The next meeting will take place Monday 19 October at 1930. All meetings of the Council are open to the public