The Parish Council Planning Committee met on 8th April at 7.00 to discuss among other items the application to put one travellers pitch on the site in Hod Hall Lane. About 40 members of the public attended. I was able to explain the procedures to them and that only planning matters could be raised in […]

Many neighbors have been contacting Pauline and I worried about the fresh application to change the site in Hod Hall Lane to a travelers’ site for one pitch. As the previous application for four pitches was turned down because East Cambs needed 20 and already had 19, this will be more likely to be recommended […]

 Haddenham Rec Ground   Waiting for the sub soil At long last the work on the Recreation Ground has restarted  For a long time the delay first due to waiting for grant confirmation, then for a licence to dump subsoil on the ground, then the credit crunch dried up supplies of sub soil from development sites.  […]

At yesterday’s East Cambridgeshire District Council meeting as they met to set next year’s budget. I called for a stay of execution for Ely’s Angel Drove Park and Ride. I wanted to give the service another chance to see if it can be successful by offering free parking on Saturday, good signage and with the […]

Cambridgeshire County Council Lib Dems have proposed a 2.45% Council Tax increase, compared to the Conservative plan for a 3.9% hike. We are also proposing to invest an extra £10.5 million in priority services. Councillor Nichola Harrison of Petersfield said, ‘These proposals can be afforded because we have identified ‘fat’ in the Council’s budget – and cut […]

Residents in Haddenham have been contacting us, complaining about the straw mess when straw lorries drive through the village. We have taken this up with the power station management and they came to our Parish Council working party. They are now applying for a change to planning conditions. The Straw Burning Plant has at long […]

Furious Lib Dems have argued that size doesn’t matter when it comes to attracting shops and leisure facilities to Ely. They claim up to 5,000 new homes are not needed to encourage big commercial names to move in. Ely West Councillor Sheila Friend-Smith visited Witney in Oxfordshire and Cirencester in Gloucestershire, with the council’s working […]

Many of you have complained about speeding through our villages. This has been raised many times at our Neighbourhood Panel meetings. In partnership with the police we have introduced Speedwatch. Inspector Savill instructed a group of volunteers from villages across the West Neighbourhood patch on the use of Speedwatch equipment. New equipment has been provided […]

About 50 members of the public filed into the Council Chamber at 2.00 p.m. on Wednesday 7th January to listen to the Planning Committee. Most were from Haddenham. The Planning Committee listened carefully to the planning officer summing up of their position. She read out the statement from Cllr Pauline Wilson expressing her opposition to […]

Change of use from builders yard & offices to a Travellers Site with 4 pitches. Hod Hall Lane is the first planning item on the Planning Committee Agenda for Wednesday 7th January at 2pm. The planning officers are recommending refusal, but not on the grounds that many residents had written – drainage, access and sewage […]