MELBOURN PARISH COUNCIL 28 Station Road Melbourn Cambs SG8 6DX Telephone 262494 e-mail: parishclerk@melbournpc.co.uk Chairman Donald Mowatt 23, High Street SG8 6AL
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Vice-Chairman Maureen Townsend 32 New Road SG8 6ER
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Clerk & Office Avril Mellor, 28 Station Road, SG8 6DX
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E-mail parishclerk@melbournpc.co.uk Website www.melbourncambridge.co.uk Councillors Val Barrett 2 Station Road, SG8 6DX 261227 Irene Bloomfield 78 Russet Way, SG8 6HF 222558 Alan Brett 44 High Street, SG8 6DXBB 260306 Rosemary Gatward 94 High Street, SG8 6AL 261225 Jose Hales 23 Elm Way, SG8 6UH 262651 Dean Hardingham 1 Portway, SG8 6EU 232757 Michael Linnette 11 Chapel Lane, SG8 6BN 262534 Donald Mowatt White Walls, 23 High Street 268388 Clive Purbrook Glebe House, High St, SG8 6DZ 260899 Jocelyn Robson 91 High Street 261633 Mike Sherwen 3 Hale Close, SG8 6ET 260070 Christopher Stead 70 Russet Way 260743 pm only Maureen Townsend 32 New Rd, SG8 6BY 260959 Richard Wakerley 32 Chalkhill Barrow, SG8 6EQ 262247 Employees Handyman and Caretaker Peter Andrews Emergency mobile. 07778-682245 Village Ranger Keith Rudge, 4 Dolphin La, SG8 6AF Internal Auditor Peter Chilvers, 68A High Street, SG8 6AJ County Councillor Susan van de Ven 95 North End, Meldreth susanvandeven@yahoo.co.uk.
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District Councillors Janice Guest, 1 Mortlock Street, SG8 6DB
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Val Barrett, 2 Station Road
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South Cambs M.P. Andrew Lansley
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South Cambs M.E.P. Robert Sturdy
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The Parish Office at 28 Station Road, is entered by the door at the front of the building directly opposite Sheene Mill. The Parish Office is now open on Mondays from 9 am to 1 pm, on Tuesdays from 2 pm from 4 pm, and on Thursday from 9 am to 1 pm. The office is not normally open on Wednesdays or Fridays. As the Clerk is sometimes out on Parish business it is better to ring 262494 to ensure that she is in the office. Meetings of the Planning Committee are normally held on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of every month commencing at 7.15 pm. Council Meetings are normally held on the fourth Monday of each month at 7.15 pm at All Saints’ Community Hall. The Press Royston & Buntingford Mercury Tom Ship, Media Centre 40 Ware Road, Hertford, SG13 7HU 01992 526639 Royston Crow Heath House, Princes Mews, Royston, SG8 6RT 245241 Fax 242231 Cambridge News David Williams, 3 Melbourn Street, Royston, SG8 7BP 249144 Fax 244502 BBC Radio Cambridge Reception Newsroom
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From the Parish Clerk – Avril Mellor The Council has commissioned Matthew Lane Sanderson, a sculptor who works with metal, to design entrance gates for New Road cemetery. Following a series of discussions, Matthew has now gone away to convert his drawings and ideas into a model of the gates, so that the Council can see his proposal in the flesh, so to speak. It is hoped that the gates will be in place by early summer 2010. South Cambridgeshire District Council is intending to sell off all its car parks, which would then be operated as a commercial enterprise, with parking charges. In an effort to prevent this situation, discussions are on-going between the Parish Council and SCDC with regard to the Council taking over a lease on the village car park. The garages on the car park would remain the responsibility of the SCDC. There have been many complaints with regard to the dangers resulting from parked vehicles on Station Road. Due to public requests for something to be done about this situation, a Public Open Meeting was called on 20th October at the Village College to discuss a proposal to introduce additional parking restrictions. This meeting was attended by Mr. Richard Preston, Head of Network Management for Cambridgeshire County Council; PC Clive Holgate, a Force Traffic Management Officer and a member of our Roads Policing Unit; 2 PCSO’s; 8 members of the Parish Council and 42 members of the public. One of the main things that emerged was that doing nothing was not an option. What was repeated by different people was that there was a need for parking places with yellow lines placed at intervals to allow vehicles or cyclists room to get safely out of the way of oncoming traffic. At long last the Council has been informed that it can have back some of the Saxon remains removed during excavation in early 2000 prior to the building of Chalkhill Barrow. These remains will form a family group and will be re-buried in the burial mound that has already been prepared in New Road Cemetery. Can I take this opportunity to remind people that New Road Cemetery is a lawned cemetery and as such all graves older than six months will be grassed over. Relatives will be advised before this takes place. Kirstin Bicknell is in consultation with the Council with regard to Stockbridge Meadows Riverside Park being used as a venue for a Public Art Project. The project would be funded by money provided by developers Camstead Homes under a Section 106 agreement. At the time of writing there is a vacancy on the Council. This has been brought about by the resignation of Cllr. Janice Guest. Although she has resigned from the Council, the village will not lose the valuable contribution made by Cllr. Guest, as she will continue to serve the residents of Melbourn and surrounding villages in her capacity as a District Councillor. Two members of the committee of the recently formed St George’s Allotment Association have attended a Conservation Committee meeting, where they were given the opportunity to discuss with members of the committee, the Association’s plans. The Association was advised that at the present time there is a waiting list melbournmagazine
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