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Bottisham Parish Council

Council challenge

(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.

08 April 2024

Parish Council Meeting

Poppy Room, Bottisham Sports & Social Club Monday 7:30 pm View Agenda

Latest News

Lucy Frazer MP Open Surgery

Bottisham Sports & Social Club

23

March 2024
Lucy Frazer Open Meeting
Lucy Frazer MP will be hosting an open meeting at Bottisham Community Sports & Social Club on Saturday 23 March 2024 at 10am
All residents are invited to discuss any issues or concerns with her, whether local or national. 
If residents are planning on coming along to the open meeting, it would be very helpful if they could email her at lucy.frazer.mp@parliament so that she can make the necessary practical arrangements.

Retirement Village Update

Bottisham

20

March 2024
Petition
UPDATE - RETIREMENT VILLAGE
First off, a big thank you to all of those who have worked tirelessly on petitions and letters relating to the retirement village planning approval. A constructive meeting, on Tuesday 19th March, was had with the Director of Operations, Isabel Edgar, at East Cambs District Council (ECDC) and District Councillor Charlotte Cane. Isabel had a good understanding of the case and just as importantly our concerns. Letters and all the petitions (at the time 700 which is around 30% of our village!) were handed in along with supporting documents. All were available to ECDC legal team (Kings Counsel) to review and consider, along with the detailed Planning Inspectorates' decision. The objective here were to ascertain grounds for Judicial Review (JR)

Unfortunately, on 20th March, ECDC notified Parish Council that there is no legal position for a JR. We understand that the village as a whole will feel disappointed at this result. In relation to further political intervention, as you know many letters, have also been written to Lucy Frazer MP and Rt. Hon. Michael Gove and will wait to see if any response can be obtained. Lucy Frazer has also written to Lee Rowley MP and will continue to chase. But we must be realistic that there is a very slim chance of this application being overturned by Government. Unlike the applicant, we really do not have the option of appealing to the Secretary of State (and the Planning Inspectorate) for a change of decision.  

We have done our very best and we are grateful to all of those involved helping push this as far as we could. We will, of course, keep you updated if and when we hear anything further. Any changes wanted to the approved planning application, for example changing the number of affordable houses, will need to come both via ECDC and Parish Council. All parties will focus on ensuring material considerations laid out are met.

Thank you again for all residents’ hard work and we are just as disappointed as you are but hope you feel Parish Council have done all we could.

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News Item 16th March 2023

Here is the dedicated online petition - Retirement Village Change.Org Petition

This form is for designated "door knockers" to download only. Selected resident door knockers will be visiting homes around Bottisham village this over the next couple of days (15th March - 18th March inclusive) to seek your support to oppose the recently approved Retirement Village planning application. These residents have volunteered to help the community and Bottisham Parish Council. They will kindly and respectfully ask for your support but you are under no obligation to support this petition. If you have any concerns or questions over this petition please email: clerk@bottisham-pc.gov.uk

Please can all petitions be left in the designated box in the Co-Op by 10am on Monday 18th March 2024.

There will also be an online petition on Change.org for those who wish to submit electronically. The link will be available on Bottisham Community Facebook page.

After being refused by East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC), Planning Inspector (PI) and Secretary of State permission has now been granted by a different / second Planning Inspector to build a retirement village of 170 homes with associated C3 homes on green belt land in Bottisham this includes up to 50 affordable homes. This is due to be located on the land behind Beechwood Avenue (backing onto Cedar Walk, The Rowans with entrance off High Street. This will have a huge and we believe detrimental impact on the village; green belt land & countryside, doctors (capacity), facilities and traffic.

Bottisham Parish Council, ECDC and many residents are extremely disappointed at the outcome of the Appeal decision to allow the Retirement Village in Bottisham and remains vehemently opposed to the proposal. This petition will go to East Cambridgeshire District Council and the Secretary of State, Rt Hon, Michael Gove for Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Lee Rowley, Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety.

NB: If you scan the QR code below you will have to zoom your screen out to image it. This will take you to the dedicated online petition - Retirement Village Change.Org Petition


Bottisham - Roadworks

Bottisham

17

March 2024
Roadworks

BOTTISHAM ROADWORKS NOTIFICATION 

WHO, WHERE, WHAT, WHEN, WHY, LINK TO WORKS 

REMEMBER ALWAYS CHECK ONE.NETWORK

Gigaclear VINEYARD WALK Some carriageway incursion 20/03/2024 22/03/2024 Utility repair and maintenance works - https://one.network/?GB137974099

Trooli Ltd BELL ROAD Multi-way signals 21 21/03/2024 23/03/2024 Utility asset works - https://one.network/?GB137971963 

Cambridgeshire County Council NEWMARKET ROAD Two-way signals 18 18/03/2024 18/03/2024 Highway repair and maintenance works - https://one.network/?GB137949954

Gigaclear LODE ROAD Some carriageway incursion 25/03/2024 27/03/2024 Utility repair and maintenance works -https://one.network/?GB137929373

Gigaclear BELL ROAD Give and take 17/03/2024 20/03/2024 Utility repair and maintenance works -https://one.network/?GB137803803