and green spaces. The campaign is highlighting a new online map: https://www.cambsopenspace.co.uk. This lists all the main green spaces across Cambridgeshire including village recreation grounds and small parks. Health and Care Reforms: what’s happening: The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board, which Susan chairs, will now join up with the new Integrated Care Partnership, a local initiative within the framework of Govt’s health and social care reforms. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough arrangement with the ICP is unique in its collaboration and will sit as a Committee in Common, to create a common agenda that needs to reach down to community level, and Council has now agreed constitutional changes to allow this to happen. The Melbourn Community Hub is now poised to begin delivering nonclinical services for the Meridian Primary Care Network of which the Royston practices and Orchard Surgery Melbourn are a part. NHS health checks are one example.
Combined Authority Bus Improvement Programme The Combined Authority’s Bus Improvement Programme has been snubbed by Government, with no funding at all being awarded to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough at all for better bus provision. This is crucially important as bus ridership does not always provide sufficient revenue to make a service viable, and extra support funding needs to come from somewhere; certainly that is the case for the 17 service running between the Mordens, Litlington, Bassingbourn-cum -Kneesworth, Whaddon, Meldreth, Melbourn and Royston. The Meldreth and Melbourn link is still run on a subsidy. Community Rail Partnership (CRP) Thanks to all who came along to help with the gardening day at Meldreth Station last month. The CRP has been helping to lead on the A10 Underpass consultation. [Please see page 45 of Meldreth Matters.] Please note that the ‘new’ cycle parking at Meldreth Station is now protected by CCTV, as part of its Zero Carbon Communities Grant. Do feel free to contact us if you’d like to join our mailing list for future activities. 52
