Huntingdon District Council announce a new Garden Waste Subscription Service to be introduced from April 2024

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Huntingdonshire District Council’s Cabinet Members agreed to introduce a fortnightly garden waste subscription service that will come into effect in April 2024.

Unlike household waste and recycling, there’s no legal requirement to collect garden waste so councils can charge for collections. Rather than remove the service, the council will keep the service for those that need and value it.


The optional service equates to under £5 per month at £57.50 for one garden waste bin to be collected fortnightly for the whole year. The council is also exploring incentives such as early bird offers and residents will also be able to share bins with neighbours.

Repair Cafés and Clothes Swap in your village?

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Message from Huntingdon District Council’s Waste Minimisation Support Officer:

After some successful repair cafes and clothes swaps happening in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, we are looking at facilitating more of these events in new towns and villages. Would you or anyone you know be interested in helping us host one of these events? Here are some details on how it works:

REPAIR CAFÉ 

Huntingdon is hosting its first repair café on the 25th of August. There’s nothing like going to a repair café to see how they work and how brilliant they are at tackling waste, bringing communities together, sharing skills, and cutting carbon. There is also a Repair Café in St Ives on the 30th of September.

Attending this would be a brilliant foundation, and you can also attend: ‘How to organise a Repair Café in your community’ training sessions. They are on Zoom and are happening on Thurs 14th Sept , 7:30 – 8:30pm, and then Tues 26th Sept at the same time. They are free to attend and open to all. Once a village or town decides they’ll go for it, Cambridge Carbon Footprint can lend you their huge toolkit, and you can access to a register of nearly 100 Cambs-based repairers.

SWISHES

Swishes have taken off in the region, with an average of one event a week in Cambridgeshire. They range between swapping say 10kg of textiles (27kg of C02e saved per kg or textiles reused) and half a tonne! Any leftovers will get reused either via a charity or we could recycle them ourselves.

The Swish Kit is free to borrow from Cambridge Carbon Footprint. There’s a nice write-up in Varsity Magazine of the first Swish held by St John’s College https://www.varsity.co.uk/fashion/25252 earlier this year.

FIX FEST 

Cambridge Carbon Footprint and ourselves are looking at hosting a Fix Fest in October or November this year. A listing of past FixFest is here for an idea of what they are like.

Let us know if you would like to get involved!

Moats Way limited launches vision for The Lattenburys in response to Call for Sites

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Communication from Moats Way Ltd:

Moats Way Ltd comprises a partnership between two companies, Endurance Estates and Markham & George – two well regarded local property companies, with a track record of delivering high quality new homes and communities that are sustainable, sensitive to their surroundings and great places to live, work and enjoy. We wanted to take this opportunity to let you know about our exciting plans for the The Lattenburys – a unique opportunity to deliver two new, sensitive and sustainable linked villages to the east of Godmanchester.

Our vision is for two villages, Great Lattenbury and South Lattenbury, but one community, with a shared sense of place and identity that will sit sensitively in the local landscape. At the heart of the proposal is a commitment to deliver an excellent quality of life for all generations, in a mix of homes ranging in size, style and affordability. As you will be aware, Huntingdonshire has a strong reputation as a place where people want to live, work, and stay. These new villages present an opportunity to strengthen this reputation and deliver high-quality homes within the District, while enhancing employment opportunities, creating a community which supports the needs of residents, and tackles climate change while caring for the environment.

These proposals respond directly to Huntingdonshire District Council’s recently launched ‘Call for Sites’ consultation as part of the second phase of the engagement on a full update to the Local Plan. Our proposals will be available on the Councils website in the next day or so, however, we were keen to contact you directly to let you know that our own dedicated website is now live. It provides a useful overview of our vision for the two new linked villages, a link to our response to the Call for Sites, and how members of the public can contact us. It can be viewed at http://www.thelattenburys.co.uk

Members of the public should ideally contact us via info@thelattenburys.co.uk

80’s Night 29 September – Village Hall

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80’s Night 29 September – Village Hall – see PDF poster below

  • George Michael tribute band with 80s music and a prize for the best dressed 80s costume on the night!!
  • All for £15 per head –  hot dog supper included in price
  • This is an adults only evening with the Axe & Compass providing a licenced bar.
  • Tickets on sale at the Axe & Compass & Budgens (post office) in Hemingford  Grey.
  • Only 100 tickets available so first come first served.
  • All profits are going to the Village Hall to help keep our hall in tip top condition.

PDF Poster

Energy Bill Support Scheme Allowance (are you eligible to claim up to £400?)

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HDC released information of the Energy Bill Support Scheme Allowance.  Eligible households include park home residents, tenants who pay for their energy through a landlord with a commercial supplier, partly and wholly self-funded care home residents, houseboats on residential moorings, households on a private electricity network, off-grid households, traveller households on authorised sites and domestic farmhouses paying on a commercial supply.

Please contact HDC for full details.

Unregistered/Abandoned Boats on the waterways

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Message from The Navigation Advisory Committee of the Middle Level Commissioners:

The Commissioners promoted the Middle Level Act 2018 through Parliament, which give the Commissioners power to regulate use of the waterway and to register boats using the waterways on payment of charge by the vessel owner. The Act also gave the Commissioners powers to make Byelaws and the Navigation Byelaws were approved in 2020. Further information about Navigation System on the Middle Level can be found on our website, www.middlelevel.gov.uk.

The registration system has now been in force for 2 years and the Commissioners are now taking formal enforcement action against unregistered boats and also have powers to remove boats which have been abandoned on our waterways.

The Navigation Advisory Committee have asked that if any Parish Councillors are aware of any boats in their area that appear abandoned or to be moored unlawfully, if this information could be supplied to our Navigation Officer – Kevin Russell on 07725 134170, who will investigate and take the appropriate action.