Your Parish Council always welcomes your questions, comments and suggestions. Please contact us via email here: gransdenpc@hotmail.co.uk
The next regular Parish Council Meeting is on Monday 4th February 2019. The agenda and Clerks report are published 3 clear days in advance.
Your Privacy is important to us The parish Council takes care to safeguard the privacy of personal data supplied to us, in whatever form. A copy of our current privacy notice can be viewed online here. The current version was last edited in May 2018 to ensure conformance with the new GDPR legislation.
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Great Gransden Parish Council
Oxford-Cambridge rail link consultation
A public consultation has just started regarding the routing of a new railway between Cambridge and Bedford, part of the proposed new rail link between Oxford and Cambridge. The 'Have Your Say' page (eastwestrail.co.uk/haveyoursay) contains links enabling you to download a consultation document (the best place to start), a technical report, a picture of the 5 route options, and a feedback form - which can be filled in online, or you can download a PDF version and return that by post.
They say "Please submit your feedback by 11.45pm on 11 March 2019 when this consultation will close". Anyone can send in feedback - it is not limited to one reply per household - and people outside the area can also send in feedback, so you might want to tell friends and relatives about this.
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Rural Watch is out and about
The Parish Council has been sent a message by Richard Braddick about 'Rural Watch' which we think is worth drawing to the attention of our parishoners. If you wish to participate, please get in touch with Richard using the contact info below.  One vehicle was stopped and a small amount of drugs seized and a report of a male standing in a driveway late into the night was checked out and all was found in order with the male. Patrolling vehicles checked farms, businesses, villages and remote lanes and tracks throughout the night and I am pleased to report that very little suspicious activity was found. The watch will be out and about again later this month, if you feel you would like to join and help deter crime in your community please email me. WORKING TOGETHER TO HELP DETER RURAL CRIME. Kind Regards Richard PCSO 7101 Richard Braddick St Neots Safer Neighbourhood Team St. Neots Police Station | Dovehouse Close | St. Neots | Cambridgeshire | PE19 1DS Mobile: 07921-094801 Call: 101 Richard.braddick@cambs.pnn.police.uk |
Survey re West Street development
Following the recent exhibition regarding the proposed development off West Street, Carter Jonas have set up a web site, where you can download a copy (in PDF format) of the information boards shown at the meeting, and also complete a brief online survey. If you do not wish to fill in the survey online, they have contact information for sending in comments by email or post, and you can download a printable copy of the survey form. They ask that comments are submitted by Sunday 9th December 2018, and the Parish Council encourage parishioners to make the developers aware of their feelings for or against the proposals by then. UPDATE, January 2019: The developers have now submitted an application (see reference 18/02720/OUT on the district councils planning portal), and comments are due by the 29th of January. There will be a special meeting of the parish council on January 23 to discuss this. |
2019 meeting dates
At the December 2018 meeting, the Parish Council agreed that the 2019 meetings would folllow the normal pattern of the 1st Monday of the month (except when this is a bank holiday, when the meeting will be delayed one week). This means the next meeting will be on the 7th of January, with subsequent meetings on February 4, March 4, April 1, May 13, June 3, July 1, August 5, September 2, October 7, November 4 and December 2. The Annual Parish Meeting was put down for the 18th of April. As usual, extra planning meetings may be scheduled as necessary. |
An update regarding the HDC Local Plan
The Parish Council have received an update from Huntingdonshire District Council on the status of the local plan. This is given in its entirety below, and the attachments mentioned can be accessed by following the links. We are now in receipt of further communication from our Local Plan Inspector which is attached and you will see it is a bullet point informal letter of the modifications he recommends be made in order to find the plan sound. As part of the Examination process we had to robustly justify our Objectively Assessed Need for housing and demonstrate that out Local Plan target of 20,100 homes is the correct number. From the outline of modifications from the Inspector you will be able to infer that that at this stage of the process he does not challenge our position on our overall housing numbers having carefully considered the evidence from the entire examination process. As a result he is not suggesting our housing numbers need to be increased and therefore we do not need to include/ find additional sites and he has removed the category of Local Service Centre (Alconbury, Bluntisham, Great Staughton). The Inspector has provided a trajectory along with a supporting note and that is available on the Council’s website http://www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/planning/new-local-plan-to-2036/examination-of-the-local-plan/letters-tofrom-the-councilinspector/ There are a couple of key points you need to be alive to:
Next steps:
As we get further information we will of course update our
website. In the meantime, if you have any further queries, please do not
hesitate to contact the Planning policy team via email at local.plan@huntingdonshire.gov.uk |
Great Gransden Neighbourhood Plan
The Neighbourhood Plan Group have distributed an introductory questionnaire to all Great Gransden residents. If you have not already done so, you can return them via the village shop. The members of the steering group will be attending village events in order to meet and talk with anyone who has ideas or concerns they wish to share with them. More information, including a copy of the survey, contact details, and example Neighbourhood Development Plans, can be found on the group's website: |
Potton Ltd, Eltisley Road - Planning Application
An application for outline planning permission for the erection of 38 custom/self build houses with roads, services, attenuation pond and infrastructure and full planning permission for the erection of 5 custom/self-build show houses with sales centre & car parking following demolition of factory and offices. The application REF. 18/00958/FUL can be viewed on HDC's online planning portal: https://publicaccess.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/online-applications/ UPDATE: The closing date for comments/observations was 13th June 2018. |
Meadow Road 40mph Buffer Zone
Following the Parish Council's successful bid for a 40mph buffer zone along Meadow Road, the Public Notice and Map can be viewed by clicking on the highlighted links. |
Parish Council Membership
 Great Gransden has 8 Parish Councillors - Andrew Pett, Giles Scott, Jeff Gorton, Nick Ginn, Michael Capps, Nigel Day and Peter King, who were returned following an uncontested election, and James Catmur, who was co-opted onto the Parish Council. There remains one vacancy - if you are interested in being co-opted onto the council and to serve your community in this role, please contact the clerk or a parish councillor. Email gransdenpc@hotmail.co.uk |
A428 development - announcement deferred
The announcement of the preferred route continues to be deferred! The current plan is to announce the preferred route in 'late 2018', with the work starting in 2021 or 2022.  Proposed Routes and latest information
please click here to view more details:
UPDATE, January 2019: it's been further deferred, until 'spring 2019'!
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