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ORCHARD PARK Community News Keep me for future reference ORCHARD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL Spring 2019 Spring 2019 - Orchard Park Community News 1 About Orchard Park Community Council A ‘Community Council’ is another name for a Parish or Town Council – the first and most local level of government closest to the people and representing the concerns of the local community. It is an elected local For matters regarding the authority with nine councillors that Community Council: represents Orchard Park. It tries hard [email protected] to punch above its weight. It works closely with South Cambridgeshire Community Centre and Sports Facilities to announce that we shall be District Council and the County Booking enquires: providing space for advertising. Council but is separate from them. www.orchardpark.gov.uk/bookings Editorial Please get in contact for more General enquires and booking: information on advertising rates. 2 About and Contact Information [email protected] elcome to our Spring If you have any news or 3 Editorial newsletter for 2019. It something you’d like promoted, The Orchard Community Centre contains updates from please let us know. 4 From the Chair of the Community Council Central Avenue W Orchard Park Community Cambridge This newsletter is produced by It5 Meet is funded your Community by a “precept” Councillors part of the CB4 2EZ Council (OPCC) and the latest council tax as well as income from the news in our community. Orchard Park Community community6 District Councillor centre Information and sports ground 01223 420750 Council and is distributed to all as well as initial funding from developers.8 County Councillor It owns Report and runs most of We employ a number of staff households and businesses in the open space and play areas within W W W www.orchardpark.gov.uk including a teamof caretakers Orchard Park. A digital copy is Orchard9 Community Park. Gallery that strive to keep Orchard Park available on our website: 10 Community News and Events OPCCpage clean, green and safe. If you notice something wrong please Orchardpark.gov.uk 11 TerraCycle at the Community Centre get in touch and let us know, if 20 Wildlife Project we can’t help we will hopefully Sign up to our Facebook Page to Stanley Ave be able to point you in the right get the latest updates: 22 Local Policing and Crime Prevention direction of who should be able @OPCCpage 26 Welcome to Marmalade Lane to help. Central Ave 30 Primary School Newsletter With the growth of community Your Editorial Team 32Thought of the Month from the Vicar clubs and groups, we are happy [email protected] 2 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 3 and although shocking, I would like to reassure residents that we have been working very closely with the Police and their partners, the County Council, South Cambs District Council, and youth workers in addressing these issues. The evidence suggests that it was clearly a Archeological finds from Orchard Park during the excavation of the site targeted and isolated incident Generic photo of some people having a really productive meeting and there is currently no Meet your Community Councillors elevated risk to other members of the public. Your Community Council has nine elected members and are unpaid for their services to the community. The Council look after your parks, Photo credit: Jemima Wilcox I can understand that residents community centre, sports facilities, promote community events, and are worried but I believe that communicate the needs of our residents to the District and County the community can work Councils, and the Police. Hello there! together to put a stop to Andrew Chan Yemi Macaulay On behalf of the Orchard Park antisocial behaviour and deter Chairman Community Council, I would like criminality. We are working with to welcome you all to our Spring Police and others councils to [email protected] [email protected] 2019 community newsletter. implement increased community resilience and safety. More We’ve had a busy few months information can be found in this Elisa Meschini Robert Nixon - Vice Chairman and would like to thank issue of our magazine. members of the community for [email protected] The Police encourage residents all their help with the Christmas [email protected] event, Chinese New Year to join Neighbourhood Watch Saima Din and to set up local groups to celebrations, and board games Fred Oboloje evening. If you would like to help reduce crime and to raise awareness. [email protected] hold a community event, please [email protected] do get in touch! Toni Page Cllr Andrew Chan, PhD Filippo Facciani You may have heard of the recent reports of anti-social Chairman behaviour and violent incident Orchard Park Community Council [email protected] [email protected] at the skate park on the news, [email protected] 4 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 5 itself over the last three years that South Cambridgeshire District made me want to stand for the Contact information for local council. I want to ensure that South Cambs Councillors for Orchard Park, at least in this area, we continue to District Council Histon and Impington be outward, open, and welcoming and that you, now as my What does the District Council do? constituents, have the chance to Benefits: [email protected] 03450 450 061 District, borough, and city councils cover smaller areas than county express that approach to life politically. Without being open and Building Control: councils and responsible for: refuse collection, recycling, collecting [email protected] Council Tax, housing,licensing, and planning applications. applying knowledge and 0300 772 9622 experience at local level, we cannot Your District councillors: Cllrs Martin Cahn ([email protected]), Elections:[email protected] solve the many problems facing us, 03450 455 214 Pippa Heylings ([email protected]), and Steve Hunt social and environmental, cultural (cllr.hunts@@scambs.gov.uk). In this issue, Martin will introduce himself Environmental Services: and economic. [email protected] and tell us about the things he’s been involved with. 03450 450 063 My interests are conservation, Read their monthly reports at: https://hiopcouncillors.wordpress.com Housing Benefit Fraud: 0800 854 440 environmental topics, and Martin Cahn Wales, getting to know the area Other Fraud:[email protected] internationalism. I am vice chair of 0800 7311 892 intimately. Seeking wider the District Council’s Climate and Histon and Impington experience, I moved to France and Environment Committee and on Housing: [email protected] is a small local village, 03450 450 051 worked with an international their Planning Committee and but it is very network of local authorities working Brexit advisory group. These are Planning: [email protected] international in its outlook and 03450 455 215 on exchange of experience key issues in South Cambridgeshire evolution, as its role changed from programmes on sustainable energy as it shows rapid expansion, so I Revenues: [email protected] an agricultural village, through an 03450 450 064 topics, so my own experience has look forward to adopting industrial centre, to a commuting been local and international, environmentally friendly policies as Rents: [email protected] centre for a knowledge-based 03450 455 216 theoretical and practical. our contribution to global problems economy, with the newest example - as they say ‘Think Global, Act For all other enquiries: of that change being the After 16 yrs spent abroad I retired [email protected] Local’. 03450 450 500 development of Orchard Park. and returned to the UK in 2008 with my Polish wife, Aga, and two [email protected] Born to a refugee father and a very young sons, initially caring for my English mother , I have been elderly mother, and then moving to W W W www.scambs.gov.uk exposed to a plurality of cultures. Impington in 2012. So like so many @SouthCambs After a doctorate in plant ecology, I in our village, I am multicultural, South Cambridgeshire spent 17 years as a local authority open and mobile. In effect it was countryside officer based in South the country’s political retreat into [email protected] 6 Orchard Park Community News - Spring 2019 Spring 2019 -Orchard Park Community News 7 County Councillor for Orchard Community Park, and Histon and Impington What does the County Council do? Gallery It provides social care for people of all ages; runs libraries; takes care of our roads, footpaths and cycleways; supports the development of our economy; disposes of our waste; manages the County Farms Sohini Datta Biswas estate; delivers programs to improve public health; funds new Noémi Horváth-Áncsán schools; engages with other public sector bodies to make Cambridgeshire a great place to live, work and visit. David Jenkins up the accounts). And in the time I am the county plan for next month only two will meet. Why do we have so many of councillor for Histon Sohini Datta Biswas and Impington, a them? division which also includes the King’s Meadow and Orchard Full Council meeting There was a county council Park. I was first elected in 2005 Mandy Haywood when I was one of two meeting during March. It was most councillors for a wider area notable because I think it’s the first which also included Cottenham. time we had prayers from an active Muslim cleric and it’s the first time Sohini Datta Biswas I attend the monthly Orchard I’ve heard applause at the end.