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Month: October 2016

New litter picker appointed by Hardwick Parish Council

Ian Giddings has been appointed by Hardwick Parish Council as the replacement litter picker for Jonny Gaze.

Hardwick Parish Council is grateful for the efforts of Jonny who has given up the job to concentrate on his A levels.

We hope the village will give Ian its support. Ian has already had lots of broken glass to deal with around the skateboard park. It would also be good if those responsible realised the danger to young children from broken glass and were more thoughtful. Most of the broken bottles were just yards away from litter bins.

Steve Rose
Chairman
Hardwick Parish Council

Circle Housing have secured the St Neots Road site and will be submitting a planning application

Below is a complete excerpt from circle.org.uk. For the original article please go to their website.
Around 160 new homes are proposed on the outskirts of Cambridge, a leading housing provider confirmed today.

Circle Housing – which owns and manages around 1,000 homes in South Cambridgeshire – has secured the 18-acre site next to the village of Hardwick.

The development will have 94 homes available for private sale and 62 homes for shared ownership and social rent.

Located just off St Neots Road, the site has good transport links thanks to its close proximity to the A428 and Citi4 bus stop which is 25 minutes from Cambridge city centre. The area is popular with commuters as both St Neots and Cambridge stations provide fast links into London King’s Cross.

Philip Browne, Development Director for Circle Housing said: “With 1,600 people currently on the housing waiting list, South Cambridgeshire has an acute shortage of genuinely affordable housing. We have a strong track record in the district having operated in the area for over 20 years. We are pleased to secure this important site and look forward to working with the local community to deliver high quality family homes.”

Circle Housing has over the last four years worked with Cambridgeshire ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England), the local authority and Hardwick parish council to identify a suitable site to meet the area’s housing need. The housing association will submit a planning application later this month.

Circle Housing land secured in Hardwick

September Parish Meeting Report

The meeting was attended by 7 councillors and 8 members of the public.

During the open part of the meeting the issue of litter was raised by a concerned villager who said that the problem had been especially noticed by the dog walkers of Hardwick. Later in the meeting it was an agenda item and the PC discussed how it too is concerned and would continue to be pro active in keeping the village clear of rubbish but that signage is not the way to tackle the problem. The PC is very grateful to the volunteering group which will have its first ‘pick’ on 7th October and as many PC members as possible will join them. The position of a paid litter picker is still open and interested applicants should contact the clerk.

A large part of the evening was spent discussing the possibility of Section 106 money resulting from any housing development that may arise in the village over the next few years. Increased numbers of children in the village would mean the school would need the room; but section 106 money could be spent on a new Community building if it is decided upon before the planning permission is ever granted. Given that the school will need to expand if the development goes ahead there has been a suggestion that the community rooms in the school be surrendered in exchange for a new community centre elsewhere in the village. This option is being considered by the Trustees of the community facilities at the school. It is a complicated set of events that need to be thought through but a decision to relinquish the Community Room to the school seemed to be the popular one, in the interest of the whole village. This is a hypothetical situation at the moment as planning permission has not yet gone to the County Council.

The Village Plan group met on the 1st Sept and at present are not keen to merge into a Neighbourhood Plan group yet. More support from the village is needed in terms of volunteers offering to be a part of the scheme.

A hard cut back of vegetation on the recreation ground will go ahead with work on the surrounding trees too. The bench outside the church is to be cleaned and treated as soon as possible.

The meeting closed just before 11pm.

Written by Jane Humphries

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