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A Burns night will be held in Abbots Ripton Village Hall on Saturday 08 February 2014 at 7pm for 7.30pm.

There will be a 3 course meal plus Whiskey on the table.

Cost is £15

To book or for more details please contact Brian Petre on 01487 773558 or Mike Wood on 01487 773078

Connecting Cambridgeshire update

Connecting Cambridgeshire is on track to deliver superfast broadband to over 90% of homes and businesses across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough with better broadband of between 2Mbps and 24 Mbps for very nearly 100% of premises by the end of 2015.  Continue reading →

All Residents,

At the next Parish Council meeting Mr Dave McCandless will be attending to answer questions on ‘Speedwatch’ . Please come along to find out what’s happening and get more information.

The Council welcomes feedback from parishioners regarding any disturbance attributable to noise and uses the information to determine the success or otherwise of the event, and in liaison with SGP, to determine the noise management and noise control levels applicable to any future SGP.

I am sure you have already been notified of the SGP noise complaint hotline which is manned by SGP sound management. For completeness the SGP number is 0207 1952155. Any complaint to the Council can be made via 01480 388388 during office hours or 01480 434167 at any time the Council offices are closed. Council Environmental Health Officers will be monitoring the event and whilst the Council will not have a presence on or around site throughout the duration of the event, any complaint made will be referred to the on-rota officer.

Dear Residents,

Road Closure

This letter is to inform you of the temporary road closure to be put in place along the Kings Ripton Road, between the A141 and the B1090 past Jubilee Park, which will be effective from 09:30hrs until 22:30hrs on the morning of the 25^th July 2013. The road will remain open for local residents and emergency vehicles, it will only be closed to Secret Garden Party festival traffic.

This has been put into effect as The Secret Garden Party, (25^th July 2013 to the 28^th July), along with Cambridgeshire Constabulary, and Highways Department, feel that a temporary closure will reduce the congestion on the A141 specifically around the perimeter of Huntingdon to therefore ease the flow of traffic.

Each resident in the local area will receive a vehicle pass in the coming weeks that will need to be displayed inside the top right of their windscreen. The traffic marshalls positioned either end of the Kings Ripton Road will then allow access to vehicles with this pass. Continue reading →

 Notice of Vacancy in office of Parish Councillor on the KINGS RIPTON PARISH COUNCIL

Notice is hereby given pursuant to section 87(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 that due to the resignation of Councillor Evans there is a vacancy on the Kings Ripton Parish Council.

If, within 14 statutory days after the date of this notice, a request for an election to fill the vacancy is made in writing to the Returning Officer, Huntingdonshire District Council, Pathfinder House, Huntingdon PE29 3TN by ten electors of the town an election will be held.  If no such notice is given the Parish Council will fill the vacancy by co-option.

If any member of the Parish would like to be considered for co-option please contact the Parish Clerk.

Dated:                 13^th June 2013                    Signed       Claire Tunnicliffe                              

                                         Parish Clerk

Address:   2 Laxton Close, Eaton Ford, St Neots, Cambridgeshire,   PE19 7AR

Claire_tunnicliffe@yahoo.co.uk

Campaign to protect Rural Engalnd has produced a web-based transport toolkit which aims to improve local travel choices, particularly in rural areas.  Although it seeks to reduce the need to travel, particularly by car, it also shows how to reduce the costs and impacts of driving.  The toolkit also sets out how to protect the countryside from the negative impacts of transport, such as by reducing noise of motor traffic and signage clutter.

 The toolkit can be viewed at www.transporttoolkit.org.uk.

Kings Ripton Parish Council

Parish Clerk & Responsible Financial Officer

Kings Ripton Parish Council wishes to appoint a self-motivated, innovative Clerk. The position is home based for 10 hours per month. Hours may be worked flexibly; they will include evening meetings. Meetings are held on a Tuesday evening at 7.00pm, in Kings Ripton Village Hall, approximately every six weeks. Attendance at ad-hoc meetings may be required.

Good Financial, IT and Social Media Skills are required as well as personal qualities of tact and diplomacy.Ideally experience as a Parish Clerk would be useful.

Salary – £10.55 per hour.

Duties include:

• Producing Agendas in consultation with the Chairman
• Producing Minutes of the Meeting
• Monitoring Actions / Decisions of the Parish Council
• Dealing with E-mails and Correspondence
• Ensuring that Planning Applications are dealt with issued by Huntingdonshire District Council
• Contributing information for the monthly parish newsletter
• Setting up the budget of the Parish Council, processing Income and Expenditure and production of reports to Council and Audit.

For further information please contact Mrs Claire Tunnicliffe on 07955 707 134. Applications in the form of a CV should be sent to Mrs Claire Tunnciliffe, 2 Laxton Close, Eaton Ford, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 7AR or e-mail Claire_tunnicliffe@yahoo.co.uk

Closing Date for Application: 6^th June 2013

This week the Council received a complaint of a dog who had been let off the leash during a walk along a public footpath and entered a garden where they attacked a resident’s pet hens, one of which was injured.

The Parish Council would like to remind residents that dog owners are responsible for the damage caused and ask owners to ensure that their dogs are kept under control to stop this from happening again.

26.03.13

Farewell from your County Councillor

 As some of you may be aware I will be stepping down as CountyCouncillor for the Warboys and Upwood Division at the election on 2 May 2013.

It has been a great privilege to represent you for the last 12 years and believe it or not I thoroughly enjoyed working with Parish Councils and village communities during that time.  I have tried to represent your interests, and ensured issues and concerns raised with the County Council have been addressed – if not always successfully.  These have often included your personal social service or education problems.  Together we have made sure the County Council officers have been made fully aware of all the circumstances when they have been forced, by your efforts, to review unwelcome decisions.

During my time as a CountyCouncillor I would like to believe that together we have seen some progress of benefit to communities.  Regarding Highways the introduction of the traffic lights on the A141 has helped traffic coming through Kings Ripton as well as providing a safe pedestrian crossing. There is now the island at the end of Sawtry Way for pedestrians from Wyton on the Hill. The roundabout on the A141 near the Warboys industrial estate eases access to the main road for traffic from Bury, Wistow and Warboys. The support given by parishes to the successful Speedwatch activities has led to a greater safety awareness among drivers.

Turning to community relations I am sure the greatly improved contacts with RAF Wyton have been welcomed and led to the development of some shared community facilities in Cornwall Road.  The retention of Warboys library is an invaluable facility for all the villages in the area, and the formation of the very active Friends of Warboys Library Group provided an excellent model for other library groups to follow.  The Secret Garden Party has caused some noise and behavioural problems in the past.  I am optimistic the group formed from Parish Councils, Robin Howe the District Councillor, and Sgt Savill from the police working with the promoters of the SGP will continue to ensure the impact on the neighbouring villages is minimised as much as possible.

Regarding other important services, the introduction of the Guided Bus starting from RAF Wyton, and in the rush hour from Ramsey, has been welcomed, but must be used if the services are to be retained.  We can all look forward to faster Broadband over the next two years following the excellent response from residents to register for improved Broadband. This will include Broadband in Woodwalton for the first time. I should say that I think drains to Woodwalton, by that I mean the pressure that we have all put on Anglia Water and Luminus to introduce an effective and affordable main drains system that should soon be installed.

Who will ever forget the battle over depositing hazardous waste at the Warboys Landfill Site that was fought successfully in 2004. That turbulent time was a demonstration of how all Councillors, of whatever political persuasion, can work effectively together with community action groups to achieve a positive outcome.  We are all thankful that we now enjoy an open and much more constructive liaison with the landfill and recycling site operators.

I regret that there is a continuing agenda which I hope my successor will address with your support.  To name a few of the issues: In Abbots Ripton there is the poor state of the road to Wennington, and in Kings Ripton the need for better traffic calming.  In Wyton on the Hill there is a need for a wide range of community facilities and the roundabout at the junction of the A141 and Sawtry Way needs to be upgraded before the rapid increase of personnel at RAF Wyton next year.  In Upwood an adequate road infrastructure and enhanced education facilities will be required should the airfield estate be developed.  In Bury the County Council’s inadequate response to the dreadful way in which the so-called street lighting improvements were implemented must continue to be followed up.  In Warboys there is a determination to retain retail outlets in the village, including the potential for a really attractive community centre containing the library. We are fortunate to have some good schools in the area but there is an increasing problem of irresponsible parking when parents drop their children at the gates.

Please forgive me if I have inadvertently omitted some issues that are important to you but that illustrates the challenging and rewarding life of a Councillor when you never know what may need to be addressed next.

I must thank all the Parish Councillors for keeping me on the right track. In addition I would like to acknowledge the support from District Councillors Mike Newman, Terry Bell, Peter Ward, Peter Bucknell, John Pethard, Robin Howe, and the late and greatly missed Jack Taylor, for the positive way we have cooperated and worked together in trying to serve our community during my term of office.

Some of you will have spoken to my wife, Diana, as she has taken many calls on my behalf.  As to the future I am not sure what Diana will think when she realises I will be at home most evenings rather than enjoying myself at Parish Council meetings.

Victor Lucas
CountyCouncillor for Warboys and Upwood 2001 – 2013