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Bottisham Parish Council
(Bottisham Parish Council)
This website, hopefully, enables you to catch up on how Bottisham Parish Council is serving you along with lots of other useful information about Bottisham. This site also includes all the agendas, minutes of Parish Council Meetings and Councillor contact details. If there is anything that you feel the Council should be aware of or where it can help or support you, then please contact the Parish Council.
All members of the public are entitled to attend the meeting and you are cordially invited by the Council to do so. Time will be set aside prior to the published agenda to enable informal discussion to take place. You can find out more by reading our meeting Agendas and meeting minutes If you would like to come along we kindly ask you to email the clerk to advise of your attendance please.
You can email the clerk for any information and help regarding Parish Council minutes, agendas and upcoming meetings or questions or issues you would like to raise or addressed about the Parish Council or Bottisham Village.
Latest News
Christmas Festivities
07
Bottisham Parish Council are delighted to announce the inaugural Bottisham village Christmas festivities event
We have already written to Santa Claus and he has put the date in the diary and will be joining us.
Please save the date in your dairies too and come and meet Santa Claus and sing carols and light our first ever Christmas tree yes thats right Christmas tree.
Street & Leaf Cleaning
11
Street / Leaf Clearances - Bottisham - East Cambs Street Scene have notified us that the leaf clearances should take place, in Bottisham, early next week. They have a 6 weekly schedule they follow but at this time of the year they are trying to cover heavy leaf fall areas more often.
East Cambs Street Scene is the company owned by East Cambridgeshire District Council to provide the Recycling and Waste service across the District.
Act of Remembrance @ Quy
10
Remembrance Service @ Quy - Sunday 10th November @ 10:50am
The Act of Remembrance service will be at Stow-Cum Quy Church this year as part of their morning service. We are unsure if this will be taken by the Vicar Revd. Max Osborne.
Parish Council will fly the Union Jack on the newly repainted Bottisham flagpole opposite Holy Trinity Church.
Cambridge Dial-A-Ride
05
In conjunction with East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC), Cambridge Dial a Ride have responded to requests from people living in the Bottisham, Lode and Stow cum Quy areas for access to services into Cambridge.
Individuals who want to use the service have to be over 16. This does also mean that any parent looking to get into Cambridge is unable to travel with their child if they are under 16.
The service will take individuals to and from their doorstop Cambridge, to Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust and even Brookfields Hospital down Mill Road. It doesn’t include going to Newmarket for example.
The charge to an individual is a membership fee of £15 per annum. However, Cambridge Dial a Ride have agreed with ECDC that this will be waived for the first year of membership for those who join this year!
For those with a valid bus pass the fee to go each way is £5.00 and those without a bus pass is £10.00 each way.
Cambridge Dial-a-Ride have a special fleet of buses that are fitted with electronic lifts and safety belts for wheelchair, mobility scooters and walking frame users or those unable to use the entrance steps. Members can also bring along a carer too for an additional fare if they need to.
The journeys all have to be pre-arranged, which can be done by contacting their office and speaking with their schedulers.
New members will also be able to take advantage of our Saturday trips out to the seaside, local garden centres and other places of interest which will be advertised on our website.
Full details are on our website www.cambridgedialaride.org.uk/
Further details can be obtained by telephoning 01223 506335 or by email tomembers@cambridgedialaride.org
We Need You
10
Neighbourhood planning is a way for Bottisham residents to take a proactive approach in deciding the future of our village.
We need your help in creating our neighbourhood plan ... without you it can’t be done. If you’re a resident who hold dear the best interest of Bottisham, want to protect the heritage of the village, have an eye for detail, want to help shape Bottisham for the future so it is a great place for all of us to live, work and grow in the future then we want to hear from you.
The group consists of some Parish Councillors as well as other interested village residents.
If you are interested in helping, we’re really keen to hear from you. Email: neighbourhoodplan@bottisham.pc.gov.uk
or call Parish Clerk: Sam on 07369248998
Is 20 Plenty
09
Cambridgeshire County Council is proposing to lower the speed limit within our village to 20mph & to implement 40mph buffer zones on approach roads. The proposals are part of a wider programme at the county council to introduce more 20mph speed limits across the county.
This application, supported by Bottisham Parish Council, is in response to your concerns & requests.
Bottisham is already a very busy village and is often used as a “rat-run” or through-route to nearby villages of Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior and Burwell. Bottisham Parish Council has received a number of complaints of speeding within the village despite having speed warning signs (MVAS) and 30mph poles. Bottisham has a growing population of 2400 with a primary and secondary school, two care homes and a recently approved, to be built, 170 retirement home. The village is made up of a very diverse population, older people, growing families with children, young adults and persons with mobility issues and irrespective of age and ability surely their safety is paramount?
By having a 20mph speed limit throughout the village it will make it clearer to drivers that Bottisham is a village with a community that values its safety, has a population that walks around the village. This application is also in response to public concerns and follows public consultation.
The reason this is needed within the village is it will help address significant known safety issues that have got progressively worse over a number of years. Our village roads are full of fast-moving cars, vans & lorries - making our roads & footpaths unsafe for pedestrians, cyclists & more. Children, older people & those with mobility issues are particularly at risk.
The 20mph speed limit would be across the entire village.
Whilst our village has been prioritised for this scheme, further work on the proposals & public consultation will take place
before any work takes place.