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Tony Court Hilary Rule |
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All
contributions please. Deadline for next Icene Bulletin
12th September 2004
Many of you will be aware of the proposal announced
earlier this year, by the Deputy Prime Minister, to build an additional 18,000
houses in this part of East Anglia. The government commissioned consultants to
report on this proposal, referred to as the Buchanan Report (www.odpm.gov.uk).
Some of you have also heard that a development brief has been submitted to
Buchanan for 8,000 houses in the Stump Cross, Four Went Ways, Pampisford
roundabout triangle. This particular proposal has not surprisingly caused alarm
in the neighbourhood, and the Ickleton Society has already written letters to
the relevant authorities strenuously objecting to it. The Buchanan Report is a
long and complex report and it is not easy to summarise its conclusions. But
they do not seem to favour a single new town to accommodate the extra 18,000 houses, but examine the advantages
and disadvantages of smaller developments in the Cambridgeshire, Essex and
Hertfordshire area. There will now be a consultation period, and a final recommendation to the government will
be made by the East of England Regional Assembly, probably in September 2005.
Until that process has been completed no specific development, such as the one proposed for the area of land east
of Hinxton, can take place. The Parish
Council, at its meeting on 18th August 2004, considered what action it could
or should take to counter the threat to
this part of the world, and it agreed the following:
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Form an Action Group, probably together with
other neighbouring villages.
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Make contact
with other people or bodies who might be able to help. We have already been in touch with other parish
councils and with our MP.
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Prepare a
list of facts and arguments that can be used in our fight. Encourage people
to write to the relevant authorities.
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Look for
people with the relevant planning expertise who can help us keep the village
informed at every stage.
It is important to understand that to fight an initiative
such as this requires three things: a lot
of hard work, planning expertise and cash. We will be looking for people
to join the action group who will be
able to devote the necessary time and effort; we would be extremely grateful to
hear from anyone with planning experience or expertise; and no doubt before
long you will be hearing from the action group who will need considerable
amounts of cash if they are to mount an
effective campaign. Finally, until an
action group is launched, if you have any questions or if you learn
anything that could help us, please get
in touch with one of the members of the council or with Jackie Casement. Meanwhile we are trying to obtain
a hard copy of the Buchanan Report.
James Macdonald (Chairman, Parish Council)
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Hinxton Bridge Closure The river bridge near the railway
crossing on the road to Hinxton is to be rebuilt. The road from Brookhampton
Street over the level crossing to Hinxton will therefore be closed from 20th
September until January 05. The alternative route will be signposted via Frogge
Street, Great Chesterford and Stump Cross. The journey to Hinxton will be
rather a long affair for four months, but the bridge needs replacing.
Bus Service The main reason why our bus service has been reduced
is because Cambridgeshire County Council is under-funded at Government level.
This means that small villages such as Hinxton, Pampisford and Ickleton contribute
a very small percentage of passengers to each journey and are therefore the
places chosen to suffer the reduction. We are
well aware that this does not help our parishioners. The County Council
will continue to monitor the situation
and review it in due course. The reconstruction of Hinxton Bridge will also
complicate the route, and the bus company have yet to tell us how this is to be
managed. If anyone has any further
comments or complaints about unreliability of the new service, please let me know so that we can keep up
the pressure on the County Council.
Plastics
Recycling The District Council has now installed
plastic recycling bins in various locations; the nearest one for us is in the Sawston car park.
Plastic bottles are divided into three categories, with the details displayed on each bin.
Monday 6th September -
Green Wheeled Bin and Green Box
Monday 13th
September - Black Wheeled Bin
Monday 20th
September - Green Wheeled Bin and Green Box
Monday 27th
September - Black Wheeled Bin
Jackie Casement (Parish Clerk)
Julie Baillie will be unavailable from September 10th
– 23rd.
Please contact either of the Churchwardens with routine
enquiries – Sebastian Payne or Jenny Pell.
In the event of an emergency, please contact the
Revd. Tricia Newland
Some advance information about this year’s traditional Harvest Festival Service and Annual Gift Day.
The service will be held on Friday September 24th
in church at 7.30pm and it will be followed by a light Harvest Supper (including wine), also in church.
Everyone is most welcome, both to the service and to
the supper afterwards. There will be a visiting preacher - our new Rural Dean, the Revd Michael
Goater - and we shall sing harvest hymns and anthems. The church will be richly
decorated with fruit and vegetables, and it will be a chance to catch up with
friends and neighbours and celebrate the end of the growing season.
This year, we are once again combining our harvest
service with the annual church gift day. It costs about £500 a week to keep our
church and its ministry going, so we do need the support of everyone who enjoys
worshipping in, or just visiting, this beautiful building, and any
contributions to our gift day - large or small - will be very much appreciated.
There will be gift day envelopes available at the
service and all cheques should be made payable to Ickleton Parochial Church Council.
There will also be posters round the village to
remind you of the service, but do please put the date in your diaries now! Sebastian
Payne and Jenny Pell, Churchwardens
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12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
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Sunday 5th
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9.30 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
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Trinity 13 |
11.00 a.m.
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HINXTON |
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6.30 p.m.
Sung Evensong (BCP) |
ICKLETON
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Thursday 9th |
12.30 p.m.
Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 12th
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8.00 a.m.
Holy Communion (BCP) |
ICKLETON
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Holy Cross
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10.00 a.m.
Joint Family Eucharist & Patronal Festival |
HINXTON |
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Thursday 16th
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12.30 p.m.
Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 19th |
9.30 a.m.
Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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Trinity 16 |
11.00 a.m.
Joint Family Eucharist |
ICKLETON
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HINXTON |
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Thursday 23rd
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12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Friday 24th |
7.30 p.m. Harvest Festival Evensong |
ICKLETON
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Followed by Harvest Supper |
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Sunday 26th |
9.30 a.m.
Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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Trinity 16 |
11.00 a.m. Morning Worship and Godly Play |
HINXTON |
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6.30 p.m.
Sung Evensong & Holy Communion
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ICKLETON
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Thursday 30th |
12.30 p.m. Holy
Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON
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From a member of the
Ministry Team
When
you read this most people will have had their summer holidays and be returning
to work or studies. The word ‘holiday’ comes from the words ‘Holy Day’ and can
be traced back to the Old Testament when God gave instructions to Moses to
observe certain religious festivals. On
these days no work was to be done but it was only one day at a time. How would
we cope with no long break in the summer and a day’s break at Christmas and
Easter? Religious festivals and saints‘ days are still observed in the
Christian church today and this month two of the churches in our three parishes
celebrate festivals. Hinxton Church, dedicated to St. Mary and St. John,
celebrates its Patronal Festival on Sunday 12th September, Holy
Cross Day. Hinxton or ‘Henchistone’ as it was known, has had a church since at
least 1080 when it was part of the Priory of Barnwell. The main part of the present building dates
from about 1150 with additions in the 13th, 14th, and 15th
centuries. The chancel screen and the choir stalls are basically medieval but
some reconstruction has been carried out on the screen as it was originally
much wider. An interesting feature of the church is the stones on the outside
walls which are inset into the flint and have names carved on them. These are the names of the children of the
Rev. Richard Twells who was Vicar for thirty four years until his death in
1926. His hobby was re-pointing the
flint walls! Although the smallest of
the three parishes, Hinxton Church is well-maintained and is supported not only
by its members but by the local community.
It is an excellent example of the church’s role as a community builder not only to its
members but to those outside the church.
Ickleton Church celebrates its Harvest Festival and Supper on Friday 24th September at 7.30pm. This is a time to give
thanks not only for a successful harvest,
but also for our material wealth and all that we achieved during the past year.
Perhaps it is also a time to reflect on those in the third world who are
starving and have nothing, not even shelter.
We have all been given special talents so let us use them for the
benefit of all. All three parishes extend a warm welcome not only at these
special services and Religious
Festivals but also to our regular Sunday services. Tricia Burt, Churchwarden, St. Peter’s Duxford
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We are hoping to arrange a visit to Denny Abbey, near
Waterbeach, on Saturday afternoon, October 2nd. In addition to the Abbey there is a rural museum and teas are
available. If you would like to join
us, telephone Jocelyn Flitton, before September 13th.
The Society is very concerned
about plans to increase housing in the M11 corridor and about the specific
proposal for a settlement of 8000 homes so close to Ickleton.
Options available for more
housing will be debated at a meeting of the Regional Planning Panel (RPP) at
Churchill College on 10th September.
Cambridgeshire is represented only by Cllr John Reynolds, who is
chairman of the RPP. The RPP will
discuss which options to recommend to the East of England Regional Assembly,
for onward transmission to the government (Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister).
The Society has written to:
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Our District Councillor - Robert Smith, College Farm, Grange Road,
Duxford, Cambridge CB2 4QF
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Our County Councillor - Robin Driver, Mowbrays Farm, 18 Church Street,
Ickleton, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1SL
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Cllr John Reynolds, Shire Hall, Castle Hill, Cambridge CB3 0AP
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Rt Hon the Lord Rooker, the Minister of State with responsibility for
Growth Areas, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW with a copy to our MP, Andrew
Lansley CBE MP, at his constituency office (Conservative Association
Constituency Office, 153 St Neots Road, Hardwick CB3 7QJ)
We have made the following
points:
1. Studies
have shown there will be considerable environmental damage if the level of
housing proposed is undertaken in Cambridgeshire. Specifically, the site for the proposed ‘Hanley Grange’ is
greenfield whereas the government's preferred option is for development of
brownfield sites.
2. South Cambridgeshire
has virtually full employment. Growth
should be directed to areas which need further employment and
regeneration.
3. Cambridgeshire has
already met its responsibilities for additional housing by agreeing to raise
housing numbers above the current Regional Planning Guidance requirement.
4. A new settlement
south of Cambridge will inevitably suck in London-bound commuting. (It is established government policy that a
key priority in planning development is to reduce the need to travel.)
5. Growth in housing
resulting from expansion of Stansted airport (including non-airport businesses
which choose to locate nearby for convenience) should be accommodated close to
Stansted, and not at a distance, for example in south Cambridgeshire.
6. Even if
infrastructure (road, rail, schools, hospitals etc) is improved, the quality of
life for people living in the area will inevitably be diminished. ‘Hanley Grange’ will, for example, lead to
increased traffic through Ickleton and Duxford.
7. The East of England
is one of the driest regions, and its water resources are barely adequate for
the present population, without bringing new people into the area.
We have asked our councillors
to set out their own views, and what they are proposing to do personally, such
as attending the RPP meeting in September (which the public may sit in on), and
lobbying beforehand. It will give them
a stronger platform from which to resist these proposals if they know the
strength of local feeling prior to 10 September. Please do write and register your views as the Society has
done. Feel free to adapt the points set
out above.
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On behalf of the Club we would like to say thank you
to Mrs. Pam Fearn for the cooking apples she kindly picked, that Mrs. Cynthia
Rule brought to the Club on Wednesday. There was a bag for those who wanted one
and, as most people have no fruit trees, they were really appreciated. Thank
you very much.
Mrs. R. Lilley
Colin Greenfield will be running his coaching classes
in the village hall commencing on 13th September. Classes for 5 to 7 year olds from 5.00 p.m.
to 6.00 p.m. and 7 years upwards from 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Colin is an experienced
teacher and coach and starts off by teaching children basic skills in playing
with a ball and builds up from that. To
register just turn up at the hall with your budding stars on 13th
September. Gordon Woolhouse
Crowd pullers the Red Arrows will be one of the
highlights at the Imperial War Museum Duxford for the Duxford 2004 Air Show on
Sunday 5th September.
Currently celebrating their 40th (Ruby)
display season anniversary, the Red Arrows will perform a spectacular 20 minute
display on the second day of the two day show on Sunday 5th
only. Flying the BAE Systems Hawk jet,
the Red Arrows display will feature breath-taking manoeuvres from the Champagne
Split and Carousel to the Goose and Diamond Bend at over 500 mph. “We are always delighted to welcome the
Arrows to Duxford,“ said Tracey Woods, Marketing and PR Manager for the Museum.
“They are the best in the world and visitors to the air show on Sunday are sure
to be thrilled by their routine.”
Since the inception of the Red Arrows in 1965, they
have flown over 3,750 displays in 52 countries. Says Squadron Leader Carl ‘Spike’ Jepson, Red Arrows Team Leader,
“All members of the team have worked extremely hard over the winter training
period to prepare an exciting and innovative display.”
The show will also feature an exciting and broad
range of some of the very best of British aircraft including a Meteor jet – the
first ever jet to go into squadron service with the RAF; the Hurricane which
was the first fighter to exceed 300 mph; and the Jet Provost which marked a
transition for the RAF from a piston trainer aircraft to a basic jet
trainer. Alongside these will be some
air show favourites, such as the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Lancaster,
the legendary Spitfire and the high-speed front-line RAF Tornado jet.
The whole of the Museum's 85 acre heritage complex
will be open for visitors to explore and enjoy, including trade stands and funfair
rides for children. Gates open 8.00 am. NB - The Red Arrows will display on
Sunday 5 September only. Flying programme commences at 2.00 pm. Discounted and
VIP tickets available in advance. Call the air show hotline on ' 01223 499301 to find out more about the flying
programme and ticket availability. Ticket prices on the day - Adults £22.50,
Senior Citizens £14, Children and Concessions £7. Children under 5 free.
For further information contact Duxford's Marketing
and Public Relations Manager, Tracey Woods on ' 01223 499320 or PR Assistant Sam Kemp on ' 01223 499375.
THE
CHESTERFORDS, ICKLETON AND HINXTON W.I.
‘The History of Postcards’ was the subject of the
talk by Mr. Bill Wittering at the August meeting. He started with the first cards without stamps and continued with
Roland Hill and the penny black stamps. The saucy seaside cards were a great
source of amusement. He was a very good speaker, who was much enjoyed.
The speaker at the next meeting will be Mrs. Chris
Langford and her subject will be ‘Complementary Medicine’. Visitors most
welcome. Cynthia
Rule
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ICKLETON
THEATRE GROUP
We are very pleased to announce that following our first two highly successful events, Arts in Cambs on Tour are again sponsoring our next show, which will be held in the village hall on Friday 22nd October. Please put this date in your diary now. Full details will appear in the next issue of the Bulletin.
Briefly – ‘Hey Gringo! Through Peru’ is
a one-man show in which Peter Searles relates his experiences on an amazing
journey from the Caribbean over the Andes down unknown tributaries of the
Amazon and many hair raising incidents on the way.
This show has been a hit in the U.S.A., Middle and
Far East, in Europe, at the Royal National Theatre and other major U.K. venues,
so it had to come to Ickleton.
The Theatre Group
A 10 week course
beginning on Thursday 23rd September 2004 at 7.45 p.m. Tutor: Mrs.
Pauline Blake, venue Ickleton Village Hall.
This fascinating
course will look at life in the Middle Ages and at Chaucer’s own life and see
how both are woven into his work. See
history, humour and the human condition reflected in ‘The Canterbury Tales’.
NOTE: This is a change to the course previously
advertised. Sadly, our tutor for ‘The
Story of London’ died suddenly a few weeks ago . If you have friends outside the village who were planning to
attend this course, please let them know.
For more
information, or to reserve a place on the course, please call Ann Wade.
WELCOME
TO…………Bruce and Shirley
Clark and Olivia 7, and Andrew 3,
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Congratulations to Claire and Neil King on the birth
of their baby boy Samuel on 2nd August, brother for Tommy, second
grandchild for Adrian and Sue Paterson.
And to
Michael Rule and Kerri Harris on the birth of their
baby boy Arthur Stephen James on 3rd August, first grandchild for
Audrey Harris, and fourth grandchild for Derek and Hilary Rule.
CONGRATULATIONS
TO ……Betty and Sonny
Willmott who celebrate their
Golden Wedding Anniversary on 4th September
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September 1st |
Chesterford and District Gardening Society Meeting
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Chapel, Carmel Street, Gt. Chesterford |
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4th |
Social Club Quiz Night |
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11th |
Duxford Show |
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13th |
Mobile Library |
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15th |
Parish Council Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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15th |
The Chesterfords, Ickleton & Hinxton W.I. 7.45
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The Community Centre, Gt. Chesterford |
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18th |
Visiting Bellringers 6.00 – 6.45 p.m. |
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27th |
Mobile Library |
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October 22nd |
Ickleton Theatre Group Show – Village Hall |
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