good and bad...

The embryonic village orchard at the entrance to the allotments is still there and what was planted before Xmas is flourishing - hope they survive the coming cold snap. The area will get a tidy up this month.

On the downside someone has left a trail of graffiti through whittlesford village so need to get it cleaned up and see if the local police recognise the "tag".

God Save the Queen! Silver Jubilee Plans take shape in Whittlesford

Good turn out at the village hall on Friday evening for a briefing and planning meeting arranged by the Millenium Group in preparation for the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in the summer. About 40 people there to hear the plans and the events that are being organised  and volunteer to help

Sounds like its going to be quite an event!

solar street lights

looking to see if we can fund and install street lights in a poorly lit area using a wind and solar combo to provide the energy - then no need to connect to mains with huge costs of digging up roads etc. This sort of thing seems to work:
http://www.wirefreedirect.com/green_column.asp

Station Road - cops taking parking enforcement action

Went down Station Road to catch the train to London - high-viz. police patrol car and high-viz officers were there challenging the owner of large van that was parked up on the yellow lines and causing obstruction.

Good to see a follow through to the concerns on this that the parish council raised at the recent neighbourhood police forum in Sawston.

getting connected

I've put a link to Whittlesford Parish Council website, and Thriplow village website on the bar at the right hand side. Maybe a twitter site next?

oops - been in Leeds working so havent posted a while

Parish Council meeting Tuesday before last focused on the proposed developments in and around Whittlesford, and what and how to respond - we do have some really useful material. Also how to resolve the issue of the two sheds on the village recreation ground - lots of technical debate there!.
Had a good day yesterday going through planning performance improvement with Scambs, and also looking at how to make best use of the data coming out of a major piece of work done across Cambridgeshire on renewable energy sources.