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Remember to recycle in your blue bin when finished Is your conservatory too FREE Hello PLASTERING Welcome to the spring issue Contents cold in the winter and & ELECTRICS Contact us 4 On all orders before 31st May 2021 of South Cambs Magazine Covid support 5 too hot in the summer? Our communities have reacted damage is no longer an option. exceptionally to the Coronavirus We now have no choice but to Community 16 pandemic during the past 12 actively find every opportunity we Recycling and waste 21 months, but it remains critical can to protect and enhance what for the health of our families and natural assets we have and to Environment 30 friends that we continue to follow double, as an absolute minimum, the rules. If you are required to the land that is devoted to Democracy 36 self-isolate and need financial or nature. This is what our Doubling Planning 42 practical help to do so, there are Nature Strategy is all about. Find clear ways we can help. Read out more on page 30. Competition 46 about them on page 5. Finally, I wanted to highlight With us all having spent so much how hard our Shared Planning more time at home, I’m sure a Service with Cambridge City spring clean is on the agenda. Council is working to help bring But do you know the most forward the right new homes in environmentally-friendly ways to the right places. If you flick to dispose of your old items, along page 42, you’ll see a breakdown Transform your conservatory into an all with bigger objects like carpets, of our three new area teams for furniture or appliances? Our development management and, guide on pages 26 and 27 will importantly, how you can get in South Cambs year round living space in just 7 days help you make the green choice touch with them. when it comes to your clear out – Magazine Enjoy the magazine. and ensure you avoid any waste Enquiries should be directed to: Editor: Gareth Bell ending up being fly-tipped in the Cllr Bridget Smith Editorial: Hannah Coetsee, countryside. Leader Judy Foster and Tom Horn South Cambridgeshire District Council I’m thrilled to report that at the South Cambridgeshire District Council, start of February we adopted South Cambridgeshire Hall, Cambourne Business Park, Cambourne, our very first Doubling Nature Cambridge, CB23 6EA Strategy. This comes after we E: [email protected] finalised a Zero Carbon Strategy T: 03450 450 500 last summer. The days when we Design: Danielle Harrington can just take nature for granted Advertising: are long gone. Just mitigating for Charlotte Dyason In just a few days we’ll convert your old conservatory into a room you can enjoy all year round. Media Shed Ltd, 58 High Street, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1SY Why choose a Guardian Warm Roof from Projects4Roofing: E: [email protected] T: 0203 137 9119 • Nice & cool in the summer - cosy & warm in the winter Projects4Roofing offer a fixed fee quote The next issue of South Cambs Magazine will be The opinions and views expressed in South • Thermally efficient & fully insulated on all jobs backed by a 20 year guarantee. delivered between 24 May and 5 June 2021. Cambs Magazine are not necessarily those of South Cambridgeshire District Council or Media • Reduce fuel bills with regulated heat all-year-round Contact us for a FREE no obligation For all delivery enquiries please contact Smart Distribution Shed Ltd. All data contained in advertisements, on [email protected] or 0800 6444 011. being subject to the Advertising Standards • Aesthetically pleasing, complimenting the existing building quote Authority guidelines, is accepted in good faith 01223 258049 at the time of going to press. • Adding value to your home Printed on wood fibre from For a large print copy please contact: sustainable forests. When you have finished with 01223 258049 R [email protected] this magazine, please recycle it in [email protected] your blue bin. projects4roofing.co.uk 03450 450 500

Projects4Roofing Limited, 9 Sam Alper Court, Depot2 www.scambs.gov.uk Road, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 0GS Spring 2021 Spring 2021 www.scambs.gov.uk 3 Covid support Putting Contact us residents The best way to find up to date information first Support is available if you need about how Council services are currently If you phone us we will impacted by the pandemic is via our website. • resolve your enquiry as quickly to self-isolate due to Coronavirus as possible • provide voicemail if the person www.scambs.gov.uk/coronavirus you need is unavailable Financial Practical • answer your phone message support support within three working days If you lose income because you or your child are There is a network of well organised community self-isolating, then you could be eligible for a grant Social media If you write to us we will support groups across South Cambridgeshire. payment of up to £500, that you do not have to Your local group would be pleased to help you We also regularly post updates on our social media channels. • reply to your letter or email within You can follow us for information or get in touch on: 10 working days pay back. There are several schemes, administered with a range of practical tasks. This includes by South Cambridgeshire District Council and dropping-off shopping, collecting prescriptions facebook linkedin South Cambridgeshire twitter instagram @SouthCambs If we write to you we will Cambridgeshire County Council, which provide these from the pharmacy, dog walking or even just • write in plain language grant payments. They entitle people facing financial having a conversation so you don’t feel lonely. • arrange for translation, large hardship while self-isolating to a payment of up to You can find your local support group by visiting envelope Email or call type, braille or audio tapes £500. The financial support includes help for people www.scambs.gov.uk/coronavirus/i-need-help upon request who have lost income due to needing to care for or by calling 03450 455 063 if you’re not online. Benefits: [email protected] 03450 450 061 someone who is self-isolating. If we visit you we will buildingcontrol@ Building Control: 0300 772 9622 • carry identification that you can Whatever your circumstances, please get in touch. 3Csharedservices.org check with a phone call to our You can check criteria for all the self-isolation For more information, visit Business Support: [email protected] 01954 713 465 contact service on 03450 450 500 financial support schemes and apply for a payment www.nhs.uk/coronavirus and • arrive at the time we say we will, by visiting www.scambs.gov.uk/isolation or call www.scambs.gov.uk/coronavirus Elections: [email protected] 03450 455 214 or give you as much notice as 03450 450 500 if you’re not online. possible if we have to change Environmental Services: [email protected] 03450 450 063 the time

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4 www.scambs.gov.uk Spring 2021 Spring 2021 www.scambs.gov.uk 5 Covid support www.cambridgeshirecarehome.co.uk Do you need support you can access without using the Internet? There may be information and support that you feel unable to access at the moment because many organisations are closed to in-person visits. We hope the information on this page is useful but please remember, if the information you need isn’t listed below, you can call our community support team. Just let them know that you do not wish to use the Internet or do not have access to do so, and they will find an alternative way to help you. If no-one answers, please leave a message. The answering machine is checked daily. phone 01954 713 398 (during normal office hours)

Supermarket shopping deliveries – Cambridgeshire County Council’s order over the phone Online Directory If you are elderly or vulnerable or are self-isolating, There are many organisations dedicated to supporting and you live within 10 miles of a Morrisons residents in other areas of day to day life. Some of supermarket, you will be able to place orders over the the key organisations’ contact details are below. phone to have your shopping delivered to your home. • Age UK provides support for older people, including • If you order before 5pm your delivery can be made on discharge from hospital. Call 0300 666 9860 the cambridgeshire care home the following day, arriving between 10am and 6pm • Care Network has a Rapid Response Service • Telephone 0345 611 6111 and then select providing a range of support and remote Dementia, Residential and Nursing Care option 5 to place your order wellbeing activities. Call 01223 714 433 • Pay for delivery on your doorstep, using a • Alzheimer’s Society offers support for people The Cambridgeshire Care Home situated in Great Shelford is the • Dementia, Residential & Nursing Care contactless card or chip and pin. Cash living with dementia. Call 0333 150 3456 premier choice for a boutique care home in historic Cambridge. • State of the Art Facilities payments are not accepted • Caring Together - for carers needing support. With a dedication to providing unrivalled care for each of our • Boutique Premium Rooms with SKY+ • Choose from any products in store, Call 0345 241 0954 with a few exceptions. residents. We have introduced the latest technology with our large • Bistro & Private Dining • Cambridgeshire Deaf Association - support for screen Yeti tablet and OMI interactive dementia table. Complimenting Every effort is made to match any replacement those who are hard of hearing. Call 01223 246 237. • Hospitality Service with Every Meal our PIR lighting sensory falls reduction equipment and person- items to your preferences, but if this isn’t possible, Text 07429 231 230 centred electronic care plan system linked to every team member’s • Beautifully Landscaped Gardens with Scenic Lift the person delivering your order will explain any • Camsight - support for individuals with reduced smart phone. With this in place alongside our devoted care team we • All Inclusive Package Featuring; replacement items that are available, and you can aim to provide the highest standards of wellbeing available. vision or blindness. Call 01223 420 033 then refuse any items which you do not want, - Internet / Wi-Fi / SKY+ • Silverline - supports people over 55. Through these challenging times we recognise that care and support and you won’t be charged for these. - Telephone Calls Call 0800 470 8090 is more important than ever before. At The Cambridgeshire Care Home we have embraced this different world by offering a variety of - Communal Newspapers Delivery costs contact for our residents with their loved ones by using a number of - Hairdressing, Nail Treatments & Chiropody • Elderly and vulnerable residents: an optional Mental health support devices, iPad, Yeti Tablet, mobile phones and garden visits. £1.50 delivery contribution can be made • Regular Themed Events / Entertainment • Choices Counselling. For people affected by • Students: a discounted £2 charge is in place childhood sexual abuse. Call 01223 358 149 With easy access from the M11 the home situated just three miles • Weekly Wellbeing Classes & film screenings south of the city centre The Cambridgeshire Care Home is a must visit in our Cinema • Standard charge: £4.50. • Richmond Fellowship. For employment support. when looking towards the next steps with your loved one. If you would like to use a service like this but do Call 01223 301 032 not live within 10 miles of a Morrisons store, please • Lifecraft/Lifeline. For mental health support. To find out more about The Cambridgeshire Care Home, Call 0808 808 2121 contact Yvonne Quigley, Customer Relations Manager telephone our community support team who will try Freephone 0808 1969750 to find alternative solutions for you. • CPSL MIND. For better mental health. Call 0300 303 4363 176-178 cambridge road, great shelford, cambridge cb22 5ju • Making Space. For carers of people with mental [email protected] health conditions. Call 01480 211 006.

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As we emerged from the first national lockdown last summer, 64 per cent of residents were worried about other we conducted two surveys customers maintaining social distancing. We worked to find out how residents and with businesses to focus on ensuring they had good businesses were feeling about 64% measures in place, for example limiting the number of returning to the High Street. customers in store and providing floor markers to use for queues. We wanted to find out whether people were worried and, if so, 40 per cent of businesses told us that business what their primary concerns were support packs would be useful. We have been and what businesses could do to 40% providing packs with posters, floor stickers, help them to feel safer to return to information leaflets and table talkers as part of our St Edmunds Way, Hauxton, Vawser Way, the High Street. We also wanted High Street visits and through the post. Cambridge CB22 5GA Cambridge CB2 0AS to find out from businesses what www.mill-view.co.uk www.warburton-house.com support they needed to implement mouse-pointer If you are a local business seeking the guidelines to become COVID- www.scambs.gov.uk/ Independent living apartments for sale and rent with care Independent living apartments for sale. These luxury, self- support to reopen, you can also secure, so that they could keep COVIDsurveys and support services. They are available to buy or rent and contained apartments within a complex offering fantastic email the team. facilities are exclusively for sale for those aged 55 and over. on trading. The more you can tell us, the better designed to help you maintain your independence. we can support businesses to keep envelope [email protected] We know now a lot more about how everyone as safe as possible. the virus is spread, and we are more used to keeping a safe distance from other shoppers and using hand Selling agents: Developments by: sanitiser regularly when out. Mill View & Warburton House are available to view virtually, We also have new variants that are but if you would like to view in person, please contact more transmissible, face coverings are now mandatory and there’s Janet Bennett on 01223 606646 or a new focus on keeping indoor email [email protected] domovohomes.co.uk bpha.org.uk spaces well ventilated. Please complete our two new surveys – one for residents and one for businesses. 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This could be adaptations to aid your physical needs, to complete major repairs or to improve your home’s energy efficiency. Thanks to funding from the has benefitted those businesses Have your care or support needs changed? Has spending more time at home Government’s Winter Support and their employees as well Thank you for my shown you that there are improvements that can be made to help you cope Grant, C3 Church was able to as local residents. Thanks to “Christmas dinner. I felt very better? Perhaps you know someone who is struggling at home and who buy the ingredients for the 900 Kale & Damson from Papworth, spoilt and undeserving. Your needs an adaptation? Or someone whose boiler isn’t working as it should, meals. for providing the vegetables; department, the C3 Church or whose doors are drafty and cold? Cambridge City-based Malloy’s The team of chefs at the church and those who delivered the So far this financial year, Cambs Home Improvement Agency has was paid for 50 per cent of their Craft Butchery, which supplied meals are special people. invested £600,000 to help improve South Cambridgeshire residents’ time, and donated the other 50 the turkey and pigs in blankets; homes. As a Council service, you can be reassured that any work per cent of their time to peel, Big Happy Thoughts from Linton, For me, though I can cook, undertaken will be completed safely during the pandemic. chop, stuff, prepare and cook the a local cake company which being on my own this year ingredients, creating individual provided individual chocolate Yule I wasn’t going to bother as envelope [email protected] phone 01954 713330 facebook Cambs HIA logs for dessert; and freezer van Christmas dinner servings which I didn’t feel at all festive, hire Alley Cat Rentals, based in were then frozen ready for so having a meal cooked transportation across the district. Babraham, for providing the chilled transportation. for me and brought to me Council staff (pictured) collected Becky Campbell, Development by someone whose smile the 900 meals to distribute to 41 reached his eyes meant a villages with the help of the local Manager for C3 Impact, said: “It Help is available if you will struggle volunteer groups in each village, was a privilege to be involved great deal. In fact, it brought who transported the meals from in the Christmas meal scheme. tears to my eyes, and many the local delivery point to residents’ It would not have been possible happy memories of being without the fantastic volunteers, to pay your Council Tax or rent homes. 122 of the meals were for with my husband when he hardworking staff and brilliant local What is Council Tax used for? mouse-pointer www.scambs.gov.uk/apply • You can pay by Debit or Credit families with children under 18, was alive, plus thoughts of and the rest were given to older suppliers. Together we achieved The District Council collects Council Card using our 24 hour payment an incredible feat and our hope my family around the world Help with your rent line: 0345 045 5218. Please residents who may not have made Tax from residents on behalf of a a Christmas dinner for themselves. was that this helped to bring some and friends here in the UK number of other local authorities, If you receive Housing Benefit have your account number and of the wonder of Christmas into who I couldn’t see. All the produce was sourced including Cambridgeshire (or the housing element within payment card to hand people’s homes; to bring joy to locally, with three of the four major ” County Council, the Police and Universal Credit), and the amount • You can pay online: what has been a difficult year for you receive does not cover your providers being companies based so many.” Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue www.scambs.gov.uk/pay- in the district, so the scheme Service. It provides all of these full rent, you may be eligible for our council-tax authorities with funding to run Discretionary Housing Payment • You can pay by Bank Transfer. scheme to help with your rent. essential services, from bin collections Our account details will be on A BIG THANK YOU to to social care and much more. mouse-pointer www.scambs.gov.uk/benefits your Council Tax bill, and you “EVERYONE concerned with will need to quote your Council the Christmas meal. The Help with your Council Tax How to pay your Council Tax Tax account number food was delicious, well- If you are responsible for paying • You can pay by Direct Debit • You can pay at a Post Office or Council Tax for the property you live in on the 8th or the 23rd of each presented, comprehensive, PayPoint. Allow at least three generous portions and but you will struggle to pay, you may month. 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The e-bikes are located at Residents will need to bring the Northstowe Cycle Hub at their own cycling helmet and are Longstanton Park and Ride and the encouraged to bring their own new bike shelter near Pathfinder gloves. Disposable gloves are Primary School. Five of the e-bikes provided though if required. have kiddie seats and three kiddie The scheme operates via a trailers are also available. mobile app and a credit system. The e-bikes are available for local Download the bizbike app and people to make essential trips register for details and access. to work or as part of permitted Once registered the app will then exercise. The bikes are sanitised allow residents to scan the QR every 24 hours, although we code to unlock the bike and start encourage residents to do their your ride. own wipe down too.

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Spring 2021 www.scambs.gov.uk 19 Community Recycling and waste Twin it to win it Wasting food feeds climate change Now that the UK has left the European Union, and especially After it leaves farms, 70 per cent of all wasted food comes as we have not been able to travel across the Channel in from our homes. Included in what is thrown away in the UK every day is: recent months, many may be wondering how we can maintain Since 2005 the UK’s food waste a friendly alliance with our nearest continental neighbours. has reduced from 11.2 million tonnes to 9.5 million tonnes per What we can do year. We are moving in the right As highlighted in the Food direction, but we need to keep Twinning could offer an answer. Bourn Twinning Association is a Waste Action Week campaign up the good work. A national relative newcomer, having signed its there are many ways we can Town Twinning started in Europe 3.1 million week of action to tackle food Twinning Charter with Saint-Papoul all play our part in tackling this after World War II as a way to glasses of milk waste took place from 1 to 7 in the Languedoc Roussillon region problem, by reducing our food repair damaged relationships, March, with councils, retailers and of France in 2012. waste and the impact that it has encouraging reciprocal hospitality manufacturers working together on our planet. in each others’ homes to build Foxton also signed up recently, to highlight the link between food new relationships, focus on peace pairing with Montigny in Seine- waste and climate change. • Meal planning – plan for the and reconciliation, and encourage Maritime in France, in 2016. 1.2 million week so you know the right trade and tourism. In addition to exchange visits, What is the link? quantities to buy. French-inspired social events in tomatoes More recently, twinning has When we throw away food, we • Storage – make sure you’re the UK are regularly organised too. expanded beyond European towns also waste all the energy and aware of which foods should to those around the globe. If your village is interested resources that are associated be stored in which locations; in becoming a twin, visit the and check the ‘use by’ date. You often see signs at the Foxton Twinning Association with it. 25 to 30 per cent of Twinning Organisation’s website entrance to villages bearing the gathers at the Foxton village greenhouse gases are created by • Understand date labels – to find out more. name of a town that the village sign, linked with Montigny in Just under the production of food alone. ‘Best before’ refers to quality, mouse-pointer is twinned with. It can take a www.twinning.org Seine-Maritime, France This includes the section of land but can be eaten after this concerted effort by volunteers to 1 million that may once have been a forest date. ‘Use by’ refers to safety. establish these partnerships, as bananas that was chopped down to make Do not eat after this date. well as to fundraise for exchange the field; the water that was used • Fridge temperature check – visits and to encourage schools to for irrigating the fields; the fertiliser your fridge should be less get involved and pen pals to write. used; the diesel consumed to than 5°C to preserve food Amongst South Cambridgeshire’s fuel the tractors which ploughed for longer. twinned villages are Great and the fields, to fuel the lorries to • Leftovers – be creative to Little Shelford. They were officially transport the food and, in some make sure you use leftovers, twinned with Verneuil-en-Halatte cases, to import the food from or simply reuse meals the in the Oise area of Picardy, to the overseas. next day. Comberton Twinning Association ready to depart on their exchange north of Paris, in 1988. Annual visits We then have to produce more • Food banks – donations can trip to Vaudreuil 2019 by both parties take place, as well food (using the same resources) be made to local food banks, as a busy social calendar in the UK to replace what was thrown away, particularly tinned goods and to raise funds for the exchanges. creating a constant cycle. Last even fresh food that is close Comberton twinned with the village year in South Cambridgeshire to the use by date. of Le Vaudreuil, near Rouen in we threw just under 30 tonnes France, in 1999 and has since of edible food in our black Find more tips on the Out of enjoyed a number of exchanges bins every day! That’s the Date website. in both directions, including equivalent weight of 19 cars, mouse-pointer www.outofdate.org.uk 37 visitors from Le Vaudreuil every day. to Comberton in April 2019 to celebrate the 20th anniversary.

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Close lids fully. Please report missed collections between 3.30pm on collection day 1. Placed in a plastic bag and tied when and 3.30pm the next working day. For advice on how to leave out extra full, and then placed in another plastic Yes No recycling for collection and other policies, see www.scambs.gov.uk/bins rubbish sack and tied 2. Stored securely, separate from other waste and communal areas, for three days Black bin bags or rubbish Green bins returned to fortnightly collections from 1 March Clean Empty Don’t bag it 3. After three days, placed in your black bin Recycle Nappies, tissues, kitchen paper, wipes & sanitary waste Green bin Black bin Blue bin Change of date Polystyrene Glasses, flat glass or MONDAY A - March April May June glass dishes Balsham, Carlton, Cherry Hinton, Fulbourn, Great Mirrors, Pyrex, plates/ Wilbraham, Horseheath, Little Wilbraham, Six 1 15 29 13 26 10 24 7 21 8 22 7 19 4 17 1 14 28 Cardboard Paper & Tins, cans & foil Aerosol cans crockery Mile Bottom, Stow-cum-Quy, Teversham, West 1 15 29 Wed 13 26 Tue 10 24 Tue 7 21 magazines Wickham, West Wratting, Weston Colville Tue The following can be recycled elsewhere – check our website. MONDAY B - March April May June Clothing and textiles Babraham, Bartlow, Castle Camps, Great 8 22 7 19 4 17 1 14 28 Food, liquid or garden waste Abington, Hildersham, Linton, Little Abington, 1 15 29 13 26 10 24 7 21 W ood, plasterboard & DIY 8 22 4 17 1 14 28 Pampisford, Sawston, Shudy Camps, Whittlesford 7 Tue 19 waste Wed Tue Tue Glass bottles Cartons Plastic pots, tubs, Plastic bottles Shredded paper & jars trays & bags (in envelope or clear sack) Furniture or electricals TUESDAY A - March April May June Scrap metal e.g. pans Duxford, Fowlmere, Great Chishill, Great Shelford, Hard plastics e.g. bucket 2 16 30 14 27 11 25 8 22 Occasional extra recycling Harston, Hauxton, Heydon, Hinxton, Ickleton, 9 23 8 20 5 18 2 15 29 One clear sack and/or a bundle of cardboard that would fit in an empty blue bin Crisp packets Little Chishill, Little Shelford, Newton, South 2 16 30 Thu 14 27 Wed 11 25 Wed 8 22 can be left next to your bin for collection, providing the crew has sufficient space Trumpington, Stapleford, Thriplow & Heathfield Wed on the round. Or order an additional blue bin for free via our website. TUESDAY B - March April May June 9 23 8 20 5 18 2 15 29 Barrington, Foxton, Melbourn, Meldreth, Shepreth 2 16 30 14 27 11 25 8 22 15 29 9 23 8 Wed 20 5 18 2 Thu Wed Wed What goes in your green bin? WEDNESDAY A - March April May June Abington Pigotts, Barton, Bassingbourn, Grantchester, 3 17 31 15 28 12 26 9 23 Yes No Guilden Morden, Harlton, Haslingfield, Litlington, 10 24 9 21 6 19 3 16 30 Orwell, Shingay-Cum-Wendy, Steeple Morden, 3 17 31 15 28 12 26 9 23 Fri Thu Thu Plastic & plastic bags Whaddon, Wimpole Thu Compostables Compostable bags e.g. Biobags WEDNESDAY B - March April May June Nappies, wipes and sanitary Arrington, Caldecote, Comberton, Coton, Croydon, 10 24 9 21 6 19 3 16 30 waste Gamlingay, Great Eversden, Hardwick, Hatley, 3 17 31 15 28 12 26 9 23 Soil or stones 10 24 9 21 6 19 3 16 30 Kingston, Little Eversden, Little Gransden, Thu Painted or treated wood Longstowe, Madingley, Tadlow, Toft Fri Thu Thu Cat or dog waste THURSDAY A - March April May June Cooked/uncooked Untreated Garden waste Plant pots and seedling trays Bourn, Boxworth, Cambourne, Caxton, Childerley, food waste (including wood and Used paper tissues and kitchen 4 18 1 16 29 13 27 10 24 meat, fish and dairy) sawdust Conington, Croxton, Elsworth, Eltisley, Graveley, 11 25 10 22 7 20 4 17 paper (during the pandemic) Knapwell, Papworth Everard, Papworth St Agnes 4 18 1 Sat 16 29 Fri 13 27 Fri 10 24 Fri THURSDAY B - March April May June What goes in your black bin? Bar Hill, Dry Drayton, Fen Drayton, Girton, 11 25 10 22 7 20 4 17 Lolworth, Longstanton, Northstowe, Oakington, 4 18 1 16 29 13 27 10 24 11 25 10 22 7 20 4 17 Over, Swavesey, Westwick Fri Yes No Sat Fri Fri

FRIDAY A - March April May June Please try to reduce other rubbish that Rubble/bricks Cottenham, Histon, Impington, Landbeach, 5 19 6 17 30 14 28 11 25 Soil Orchard Park, Rampton, Willingham 12 26 12 23 8 21 5 18 Reduce cannot be recycled or composted 11 25 5 19 6 Mon 17 30 Sat 14 28 Sat General rubbish Very heavy items Tue Sat including nappies, wipes, sanitary waste, Electrical items polystyrene, broken crockery or glassware FRIDAY B - March April May June (wrapped), tissues and kitchen paper (due to Batteries Chesterton Fen, Chittering, Fen Ditton, 12 26 12 23 8 21 5 18 Covid19 we have changed our advice on tissues Store these items to take to 5 19 6 17 30 14 28 11 25 and kitchen roll used for cleaning. These should be Household Recycling Centres Horningsea, Milton, Waterbeach 12 26 8 21 5 18 put in your black bin at the moment). Tue 12 Sat 23 at Milton or Thriplow. Mon Sat Sat Not sure if it can be recycled? Check the ‘What goes in which bin?’ page on our website, 24 www.scambs.gov.uk Spring 2021 www.scambs.gov.uk 25 via www.scambs.gov.uk/bins for hundreds more items Recycling and waste Recycling and waste Time for a spring clean? Figures show that while most of us are spending more time Are you a good recycler? at home, many have made home improvements like replacing When it comes to recycling, quality counts. carpets, furniture or appliances. So, what should be done with all the old ones?

Charity collections Clothing Cllr Brian Milnes, (pictured) Lead Cabinet Member for Environment While this is not an option The S.C.R.A.P. code We know it’s harder to pass Additional recycling during lockdown, under normal and Licensing, said: Last year the Council spent hundreds of hours and over £50,000 on clothing on to charities at the If your blue bin is full, remember circumstances donating to charity clearing up illegal fly-tips, money which could have been spent on moment, but binning clothes has a you can recycle more by leaving shops is the best thing to do with “Loads of us have made other essential services. Follow the S.C.R.A.P. code to make sure you huge impact and, what’s more, they extra items (except glass) next unwanted furniture or appliances really positive behavioural aren’t to blame. can’t be recycled in your blue bin to it in one transparent sack. that are still in good working changes when it comes to S: Suspect all waste carriers. Do not let them take your waste until they either. In fact, putting textiles in the Re-use clear sacks from condition. There are several recycling - but there are still have proven themselves to be legitimate. blue bin causes huge problems! packaging, or buy clear charities in our area, such as Please drop off clean clothes, even those slip ups that can mean recycling sacks from Emmaus and The British Heart C: Check their waste carrier’s registration details, then verify them by if they are completely worn-out, at that our recycling lets the side supermarkets. If you regularly Foundation, which can usually searching the Environment Agency website https://environment. clothing banks (while on essential down - and could even have have additional recycling, you collect bulky items from your home. data.gov.uk/public-register/view/search-waste-carriers-brokers or by calling 03708 506 506. journeys, or store them in your loft, to be landfilled. Recycling can order an additional blue bin Pass it on R: Refuse unexpected offers to have any rubbish taken away. wardrobe, spare room or car until companies want the best free of charge online. you can get out to drop them off). During lockdown travel is allowed A: Ask what will happen to your rubbish and seek evidence that it is ingredients to transform into mouse-pointer www.scambs.gov.uk/ within your town or village to buy going to be disposed of appropriately. their new products, and we request-a-bin or collect items that you need. P: Paperwork should be obtained. Make sure you get a proper invoice, compete in a global market. We Thank you for being a good This means that if you have an waste transfer note or receipt for your waste removal. need to ensure our materials recycler! item like a fridge or a bed, which hold their value: no wrong could be essential for someone items, and clean.” else, you could give it away or sell Council bulky waste Collections from private it locally by listing it on a localised collection contractors Facebook, Gumtree, Freecycle or We can collect most bulky items If you are going to have your bulky Freegle page, if one exists. Please don't put clothes into from outside your house, and it’s items collected by a private service, any of your bins Household Recycling now really easy to book a collection please check carefully that they How clean does my recycling need to be? Centres (HRCs) online. There is a high demand for are properly licensed. If the items Dirty recycling collections so book a collection in are later dumped or ‘fly-tipped’, you The HRCs are operated by Make your recycling count by advance if you can, and consider could be prosecuted, because you Not clean enough Cambridgeshire County Council emptying and rinsing food and where you can store the old items are legally responsible for checking and remain open, so if you need drink containers (you could use old if you have to wait. For more you use a licensed company. to dispose of a large item, you can washing up water for this). Food information visit our website. book a visit. and drink leftovers are the biggest mouse-pointer mouse-pointer www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk www.scambs.gov.uk/bulky-waste problem we get in our blue bins. They spoil good recycling, making paper and card soggy and dirty, and decreasing the value of the The Great British Spring Clean materials when we resell them, Clean enough If you like the idea of a spring clean for nature, why not join volunteer which helps to cover our costs. groups around our area who will be litter-picking as part of the annual Great British Spring Clean event, which runs from 28 May to 13 June. Polystyrene no-no Find out more on the Keep Britain Tidy website. Polystyrene packaging is not mouse-pointer www.keepbritaintidy.org accepted as recycling. Please bag it up to prevent small pieces blowing out and becoming litter, and then put it in your black bin.

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The Doubling Nature Strategy The Council already has tree This new Doubling Nature Strategy outlines how we will work with planting schemes and nature complements our recently approved communities, partners and enhancing measures under way, Zero Carbon Strategy, which sets businesses to protect and including a tree audit to map out how we are supporting efforts enhance the district’s natural every tree on communal land in to halve net carbon emissions in capital, as well as taking action our housing areas, and identify the district by 2030 and reduce on the land we own. We want to: opportunities to reseed suitable them to zero by 2050. • give nature space, and help to green spaces with wildflowers. reverse declines in habitat and We will also support residents Chalk streams species and communities to do more for Helping manage water for nature nature, such as through grants • provide more areas for people to is a key component of the new programmes and the volunteer enjoy nature, a benefit for health Doubling Nature Strategy and Tree Warden network. and wellbeing the Council is working with As the local planning authority, Cambridge City Council and other • improve air quality our aspiration is to achieve a 20 partners to understand the issues • help manage water (more on this per cent biodiversity net gain on affecting chalk streams in Greater below) all developments in the district. Cambridge and what needs to be • create more resilience to climate We are working on new planning done about them. 20 Reasons to Choose HomeXperts change. policies for nature and meanwhile A recent report covers the health Cllr Pippa Heylings, Chair of the developing guidance to make of the 17 main watercourses that Climate and Environment Advisory more of our existing ones, and emerge from the chalk aquifer. to Sell or Let your Property Committee (pictured), said: encouraging partners to step up for Chalk streams are internationally nature right away. rare habitats, providing homes for Get your Free Valuation today “South Cambridgeshire is Read the new Doubling Nature species such as brown trout and Call John on 07455 384417 one of the fastest growing Strategy in full on our website. water vole. areas in the country and yet mouse-pointerwww.scambs.gov.uk/ The report is an important step is one of the poorest in terms doublingnaturestrategy forward in ensuring we understand of biodiversity. The challenge the condition of our chalk streams. 1. No sole agency agreement 2. Accurate appraisals to balance economic growth You can read more about this on 3. Realistic valuations 4. Expert local knowledge with measures to protect and Cambridge City Council’s website. enhance nature has never been 5. Honest advice 6. Extensive property advertising mouse-pointerwww.cambridge.gov.uk/ more urgent.” 7. Reliable and friendly service 8. Stunning photography chalk-streams 9. Passionate about property 10. Longer viewing hours John Burkill 11. Outstanding customer service 12. Fully qualified T: 01223 656606 13. Accompanied viewings 14. Constant communication M: 07455 384417 15. Maximum property exposure 16. Proactive approach E: [email protected] www.homexpertsuk.com/estateagentcambridgesouth 17. Constructive feedback18. Exceed expectations 19. We grow our business by referrals 20. Open evenings and weekends

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Who is responsible for local Protect your home from flooding (in advance, such as by buying water management? sandbags or floodgates)

What are the different River and coastal (fluvial) Main river or ordinary Could you be a Riparian is worth checking your tenancy Flooded roads and pavements: types of flooding? flooding: This is when rivers watercourse? Owner, and not know it? agreement. Find out more at: Cambridgeshire County Council and streams overflow and burst www.gov.uk/guidance/owning- is the authority to report flooded Surface water (pluvial) flooding: Main rivers are usually a larger If there is a watercourse on, next to their banks due to being unable a-watercourse#find-out-if-you- roads and pavements to, and you This is when there is so much stream or river. Locally important or under a property you own, then to carry away the floodwaters own-a-watercourse can also report issues such as rainwater that it overwhelms smaller watercourses can also be you could be a Riparian Owner. from intense rainfall via the usual external flooding to gardens or existing drainage systems. It’s more designated as main rivers. The The deeds for your property or drainage channels. Nearby low- What to report to who paths, or where you have already prevalent in towns and villages Environment Agency has authority, land may tell you if this is the case. lying properties and land are then Overflowing water pipes, sewers experienced flooding within the than in the countryside, because powers, rights and responsibilities However, even if your deeds do vulnerable to flooding. Coastal and manhole covers: Anglian living space of your home (not concrete and tarmac prevents for managing main rivers in not say you are responsible for flooding is caused by high tides Water covers most of the county outbuildings). Find out more rainwater from soaking into the England and Wales. A flood map an adjacent watercourse, the law and/ or severe weather breaching for sewage and water supply, so at: www.cambridgeshire.gov. ground. Surface water flooding detailing their locations can be will assume you are. Waiver of sea defences and flooding inland. check their website for information uk/business/planning-and- can trigger sewer flooding, where found at: responsibility only applies where on reporting overflowing pipes, development/flood-and-water sewage escapes from manhole Groundwater flooding:This is www.environment-agency.gov.uk a title deed states specifically sewers and manhole covers: covers, drains or even backs up different to surface water flooding Ordinary watercourses are any that you are not responsible. This Emergency Services: The Police www.anglianwater.co.uk/help- into toilets, baths and sinks. This because it is caused by rainwater other river, stream, ditch or culvert means you are responsible for its can help with the evacuation of and-advice/sewage-flooding/ can be caused by pipe blockages filling up underlying aquifers to not defined as a main river. The maintenance to ensure it flows people from their homes where Cambridge Water supplies water or by the sewer being too small to the point of overflowing, usually responsibility for maintaining freely without obstruction, pollution necessary. They also co-ordinate to some of the district, so it may be deal with the heavy flow. in winter. This then causes ordinary watercourses lies with or diversion, and you should also emergency services in a major worth checking their website too: groundwater flooding from springs anyone who owns land or property maintain your side of the riverbank. flood incident. Contact 999 only in www.cambridge-water.co.uk/ The type of flooding experienced and winterbournes (streams which adjacent to the watercourse. This is If you are a tenant, responsibilities an emergency. are dry in summer) to inundate known as Riparian Ownership. household/my-water-supply/ in South Cambridgeshire in usually sit with the owner; but it Fire and Rescue: Fire and Rescue roads and overwhelm drainage flooding recent months will have been may pump out flood water. Contact systems. Flooding from surface water, a combination of surface water your relevant fire station for groundwater or ordinary and groundwater flooding. This details. There may be a charge for What are watercourses? watercourses: Visit our website for followed the third largest rainfall assisting the public with personnel information about how to: event through October to January A watercourse is any river, stream, and/or equipment where a need is since records began in 1850. brook, ditch, drain, culvert, pipe or • protect your home from flooding identified. Contact 999 only in an any other passage through which The Environment Agency is (in advance, such as by buying emergency. water flows. It could be pipes under able to predict some time sandbags or floodgates); the ground, or natural routes. It • act early if flooding occurs – move Cambridgeshire Highways: in advance the likelihood Cambridgeshire Highways does not include sewers. your car to higher ground, tune of river or groundwater organises road closures and Watercourses drain the land, into local news for updates, turn flooding – and you can find diversions due to flooding. They prevent flooding and help support off mains power and water, put out if you are at risk at also place flood warning signs flora and fauna, taking water run-off sandbags in toilet bowls, pack any given time by calling on roads and clear blockages on away from buildings and roads, essential items like medicine, and Floodline on 0845 988 1188 highways drainage systems. You fields and parks. This may be empty freezers and refrigerators if or visiting the Environment can contact 0345 045 5212 or the culverted (piped) in built-up areas, you can, leaving doors open; Agency’s website at: Police out-of-hours. and these will often be empty in the www.environment-agency. • and call the emergency services summer months but much fuller in gov.uk/flood if there is an imminent risk to heavy rain. You can also sign up property or people. for alerts based on your Find out more at: address. www.scambs.gov.uk/flooding

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Walking in nature The Wildlife Trusts in Cambridgeshire As so many people have appreciated during the last year, share some of their recommendations outdoor space with access to nature and wildlife is essential for local nature reserves for wellbeing.

Research carried out between Old ponds have been restored, and breaking up the solid chalk Healthy You wellbeing The Wildlife Trusts and the trees planted to create a parkland surface, enabled wildflowers and walks University of Essex has shown landscape and small woods grasses to spread and colonise Healthy You wellbeing walks that the health and wellbeing planted, plus there is over a mile across the exposed chalk. support people who are inactive benefits from nature include of river frontage to the River Cam, Wildflowers such as milkwort, or have a low level of activity to improvements to physical some of which includes riverside harebell and kidney vetch are take up walking, reaping all of the health – through increased paths, while other areas are left thriving, and the rare moon carrot benefits outlined by The Wildlife physical activity – as well as wilder and less disturbed so that only grows here and at two other Trusts. This is done through a improvements to psychological otter and other river wildlife can locations in the country (Beachy series of local short walks led and social wellbeing. flourish, such as water vole. Head, East Sussex, and Knocking by a trained walk leader. This includes: Hoe, Bedfordshire). Cherry Hinton chalk pits Find more ideas for local nature These walks: reductions in stress and Cherry Hinton chalk pits nature reserves on The Wildlife Trusts’ • are open to everyone anxiety reserve is an unusual lunar landscape website. • cover easy terrain so that they to walk in: two chalk quarries are accessible to people with increases in positive mood, mouse-pointer www.wildlifebcn.org/nature- once provided hard chalk to build different abilities self-esteem and resilience reserves University of Cambridge colleges and improvements in social • last at least 10 minutes, but lime for cement. Now, they support a functioning and social Beechwoods Want to get closer to the no longer than 90 minutes variety of habitats that harbour some inclusion. For tranquil, contemplative wildlife on your doorstep? • are consistent, starting at the rare plants and insects. same time and place. To help everyone to take advantage woodlands, the majestic The Wildlife Trusts also run Quarrying finished there around of local outdoor spaces (whenever Beechwoods nature reserve, as the workshops at some of the best There are a number of Healthy 200 years ago, and nature has Covid restrictions allow), we name suggests, comprises large local wildlife sites and online during You walks taking place in reclaimed the site with woodland asked The Wildlife Trusts in elegant beech trees, the majority of the pandemic, led by enthusiastic South Cambridgeshire. Find of ash trees and field maples (the Cambridgeshire to share some of which were planted in the 1840s. local naturalists. If you have an one near you by contacting our cherry trees in Lime Kiln Close are their recommendations for local Located on Worts’ Causeway, this interest in local wildlife, the trainers coordinator, Leah. descendants of trees that gave nature reserves. is a favourite of Cambridge-based installed swift boxes on the side will be more than willing to share envelope [email protected] of the low wooden office on site. Cherry Hinton its name). their vast knowledge with workshop author Robert Macfarlane, whose phone 07508 020 678 book The Wild Places begins and Swifts have now successfully bred Standing within the pit, you are participants. ends here. In spring, before the in the boxes for the past few years, surrounded by steep cliffs of chalk mouse-pointer www.wildlifebcn.org/get- Interested in setting up a walk or beech leaves cast a deep, cool and the team will be scouring that glow in the late afternoon sun. involved/training-workshops becoming a volunteer at a walk? shade, delicate white helleborine spring skies for the return of these Reprofiling of the base of the pit, As a walk leader you would: orchids thrive on the dry chalky soil most welcome visitors. • receive specialist training and under the beech trees, and other In summer the meadows include a ongoing support as part of a woodland flowers start to emerge. wide range of wildflowers including nationally recognised and well knapweeds, scabious, trefoils, and respected programme Trumpington Meadows hay rattle; these provide nectar and • help people in your community For a feast of flowers the Trusts’ pollen for bees, butterflies (orange to get active and healthy, reserve at Trumpington Meadows tip, brown argus and small copper) providing vital support that they now has one of the largest areas and other insects. The surrounding otherwise might not get, while of new wildflower meadows in meadows and nearby farmland staying active yourself. Cambridgeshire, and is a place also provide a home for brown Get to know others and become where wildlife is flourishing for local hares and various birds including part of our nationwide community residents and visitors to enjoy. In meadow pipits, corn bunting or of walkers and volunteers. recent years Trust rangers have grey partridge.

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Voting during a pandemic: Or apply to vote by post what to expect If you would prefer not to visit your What There are a number of elections polling station, you can apply to elections? due to take place on 6 May and we vote by post. The sooner you apply, are working hard to make voting as the more it will help us to process Elections taking place in safe as it can be, bearing in mind applications quickly. If you apply our area on 6 May: the pandemic. to vote by post, your ballot papers will be sent to your home around • Police and Crime Please help us to keep everyone 10 days before the election. The Commissioner safe by: deadline to apply is 5pm, 20 April. • Cambridgeshire and • following the one-way system in To apply, download and print Peterborough Combined place through your polling station out the postal vote application Authority Mayor • being patient if we need to limit the number of people inside the form from our website, complete • County Council polling station, meaning you may your application in pen with your • A handful of District Council need to queue outside signature and date of birth, and by elections return it to us (we recommend • using hand sanitiser as you enter scanning and emailing it to • Parish Council elections the station [email protected]). • Neighbourhood plan • wearing a face covering Find out more, including how to referendums • bringing and using your own apply, online. pencil or pen to vote. mouse-pointer www.scambs.gov.uk/elections

Register to vote If you are not yet registered to vote, you can register online. mouse-pointer www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Ready, steady, census Facts from the The Census is a once-in-a-decade receiving letters with online codes last census survey that gives us the most accurate explaining how to complete the estimate of all the people and Census form online. You can also 148,755 people households in England and Wales. request a paper questionnaire lived in South It has been carried out every if you’d prefer to complete your Cambridgeshire decade since 1801, with the census that way. 1,901 people exception of 1941, and it helps to Census day is Sunday 21 March, worked as nurses, and inform planning and funding of local and residents are asked to 999 people worked as services, such as schools, doctors’ complete the survey on that day. medical practitioners surgeries, emergency services For more information visit the or local support groups. Charities Census website or call the There were and businesses also use census contact centre. information to access funding and 69 households mouse-pointer www.census.gov.uk with 8 or more people plan ahead. phone 0800 141 2021 It only takes 10 minutes to 563 people complete and it’s easy to do on said they were Jedi Knights any device. Households across South Cambridgeshire should be

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Mark Brogan, Chair of Thriplow and election. Find out more by emailing an additional councillor, lightening Heathfield Parish Council, said: [email protected] each councillor’s load and giving What is a Community “We very much appreciated the the council the capacity to be more Cllr de Lacey explained: “Conflicting Community Governance Review views were received on the extent proactive.” as it allowed us to amend the of the boundary of Northstowe, and Governance Review? composition of the parish council to we had to think long and hard on Babraham and Sawston more correctly reflect the balance how we could reconcile these. In the The most recent Community “As a Council our ambition is to be truly modern and caring, of the population in the village event we produced a solution which Governance Review is considering of Thriplow and Heathfield. The we think satisfied the majority of a change to the shared boundary part of which includes making decisions in a transparent, results of the survey verified our concerns expressed. All the parish of Babraham and Sawston parish open and inclusive way,” says Cllr Douglas de Lacey, Chair initial thinking in this regard.” councils pronounced themselves councils. The first stage of the pleased with our decision.” review ended at the beginning of of the District Council’s Civic Affairs Committee. Longstanton, Oakington and March, but stage two submissions Westwick, and Northstowe Foxton will be invited between 6 April and Prompted by the development A Review to consider the number 1 June. at Northstowe, a Community of parish councillors representing Kevin Cuffley, Chair of Sawston The Civic Affairs Committee Cllr de Lacey continued: door to door in areas covered by Governance Review of Foxton was inviting submissions Parish Council, explained: “Due oversees how parish and town the review. Longstanton, and Oakington and until February. The team at the to two developments, there is councils across the district “We listen very carefully Cllr Bill Handley, Lead Cabinet Westwick, was needed to consider District Council has now collated a need to consider a boundary are run. to the views of residents Member for Community Resilience, where the parish boundaries responses and prepared a change. The two parish councils Town and parish councils are the expressed in Community Health and Wellbeing, said: “The should be, whether Northstowe recommendation for Civic Affairs spent a lot of time coming up most local of all the various tiers of Governance Reviews, and we pandemic has reinforced something residents would be represented by Committee on 25 March. Residents with a proposed solution and the government, having responsibility then do our best to come up that we already knew, that the local existing parish councils or by a new are always welcome to watch Community Governance Review for areas known as ‘civil parishes’ with community governance knowledge of residents, and of dedicated body, and how many official Council meetings which are gives residents a chance to give (these are different to church solutions which reflect all of community figures such as parish councillors would be needed for streamed online. Find out more their views.” parishes). Civil parishes have the views expressed.” councillors, is hugely important any new arrangements. by visiting www.scambs.gov.uk/ Cllr Stuart Laurie, Chair of elected councillors and receive a when it comes to ensuring that The Review resulted in the decision council-meetings Babraham Parish Council, said: portion of residents’ Council Tax, our communities’ needs are met. Inviting residents to to create a new civil parish for Simon Buggey, Chair of Foxton “It is important that both villages and they encourage and support Community Governance Reviews Northstowe, defining a new parish Parish Council, said: “We noticed maintain their identities, and the communities to tackle local issues take part offer communities the opportunity boundary; and the decision to that councillor workloads were Community Governance Review that matter to them. For every Community Governance to be part of the evolution of create a new administrative body increasing due to our growing gives us an opportunity to consider Part of the role of the Civic Review we consider what the best governance arrangements at a called Northstowe Town Council. village and an increasing number a practical solution to a physical Affairs Committee is to oversee methods are to encourage as many local level. It’s really important that The new Town Council will consist of consultations needing our input. problem.” Community Governance Reviews. residents as possible to take part. residents are part of the process of 15 councillors. We are currently We hope that the Community and have their say, so that they Find out more about any of our These reviews are the process You can take part by completing inviting local people to stand for Governance Review will result in current or future Community through which existing parish a short questionnaire called a help to shape the democratic structure in which they live.” Governance Reviews, or participate arrangements can be considered submission form – either on a in the next phase of the Sawston and, sometimes, changed. paper form or via our website. and Babraham Review, by visiting The reviews look at topics such as: The questionnaire will set out the Recent reviews our website. altering the boundaries of existing proposed change, or options for There have been a number of mouse-pointer www.scambs.gov.uk/ parishes; changing the names change. We like to give residents Community Governance Reviews community-governance- of existing parishes; creating a the choice to simply tick their run in the past year. reviews new parish and parish council; or preferred options if they are short of changing the number of parish time and to provide longer written Thriplow and Heathfield councillors a council elects. answers should they choose. This Review considered the number The District Council has We work with town and parish of councillors that should represent responsibility for undertaking these councils to promote the reviews the two wards of Thriplow and reviews, deciding on the outcome, in the local area, using town Heathfield on the Parish Council. and implementing it. and parish councils’ websites, The Community Governance newsletters, social channels and Review supported a change in the noticeboards, as well as promoting number of councillors representing the review on the District Council’s each ward, as well as a change Artist impression of Northstowe. website and social channels, to the name of the parish, from Credit: Homes England. Babraham/Sawston new development. hosting events (when the pandemic Thriplow Parish Council to Thriplow Credit: Tim Chapman allows) and often distributing flyers and Heathfield Parish Council.

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