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Cambs South Magazine www.scambs.gov.uk Spring 2020 WIN A hamper worth £100 from Bury Lane Farm Shop See page 46 Three free trees for villages See page 8 Cut your food waste See pages 20 and 21 Our 2020/21 priorities Cllr Bridget Smith, Fulbourn Parish See pages 32 and 33 Councillor Gill Ward and local schoolchildren plant a tree Environment | Housing | Recycling and waste | Wellbeing | Resident updates | Transport Remember to recycle in your blue bin when finished FREE PLASTERING & ELECTRICS Don’t move st On all orders before 31 March 2020 improve... Invest in your current property by installing the unique Guardian Home Extension The unique Guardian Home Extension, offering a complete Projects4Roofing in partnership with manufacturers Guardian, solution in 3 weeks - from foundation to completion. Kingspan, Velux and Shire offer a unique home extension. Choose a Guardian Extension from us: Fitted by the Projects4Roofing team we guarantee the process from start to finish, using quality products delivering on-time • Add space and value to your property and on budget with our own staff and tradespeople. • Benefit from an energy efficient SIP panel extension • Save on running costs with thermally efficient windows, bi-folds and roofs In just a few weeks we will design, build • Manufactured off-site, completed in just 3 weeks on-site and fit your Guardian Home Extension. • Fixed price for predictable outcome; on-time, on budget Contact us directly for a FREE • LABC registered no obligation quote 01638 507 730 • 20-year installation guarantee 01638 507 730 [email protected] projects4roofing.co.uk Projects4Roofing Limited, 9 Sam Alper Court, 2 www.scambs.gov.uk Spring 2020 Depot Road, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 0GS Hello Contents FREE Contact us 4 PLASTERING Welcome to the spring edition & ELECTRICS Environment 6 Don’t move st On all orders before 31 March 2020 of South Cambs Magazine Housing 15 In this issue, you can read about us are important to you. We are improve... some of the different ways we’re a year in to our ambitious five Recycling and waste 20 doing our bit to try and help year Business Plan and have address the climate emergency made significant strides – like Wellbeing 28 we face. Through our Zero increasing the number of Council Carbon Communities Grant, homes we build. We aspire to Resident updates 32 Invest in your current property we’ve handed out more than do even more though – like £120,000 to 19 local projects that create a new business support Transport 39 by installing the unique are working to reduce reliance service to continue growing local on fossil fuels and cut carbon businesses and economies. Competition 46 emissions in their communities. Guardian Home Extension Finally, we’re continuing to work on From electric bikes to water being a more modern and caring fountains, find out about what Council and, with that in mind, we’re funding on pages 6 and head to page 36 to find out about 7. We’re also offering all our the growing range of ways you can villages three free trees to try and carry out tasks on our website. encourage more planting – find out more on page 8. Happy reading, One of our big focusses this year Cllr Bridget Smith is going to be on helping you cut Leader South Cambs down the amount of food that South Cambridgeshire District Council doesn’t get eaten and is thrown Magazine out. It’s such a waste – of money, Enquiries should be directed to: the food itself and of resources. Editor: Gareth Bell Flick to pages 20 and 21 for tips Editorial: Tom Horn and Hannah Coetsee South Cambridgeshire District Council, to help you stop wasting food and South Cambridgeshire Hall, to find out what happens to the Cambourne Business Park, Cambourne, leftovers you put in your green bin. 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E: [email protected] • Benefit from an energy efficient SIP panel extension T: 0203 137 9119 • Save on running costs with thermally efficient windows, The next issue of South Cambs Magazine bi-folds and roofs In just a few weeks we will design, build will be delivered between 22 May and 6 June. The opinions and views expressed in South Cambs Magazine are not necessarily those of • Manufactured off-site, completed in just 3 weeks on-site and fit your Guardian Home Extension. South Cambridgeshire District Council or Media For all delivery enquiries please contact Smart Distribution Shed Ltd. 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[email protected] projects4roofing.co.uk 03450 450 500 Projects4Roofing Limited, 9 Sam Alper Court, Spring 2020 www.scambs.gov.uk 3 Depot Road, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 0GS Putting Contact us residents The quickest and easiest way to contact us first If you phone us we will and to report, apply or pay for something • resolve your enquiry as quickly is via our website: as possible • provide voicemail if the person you need is unavailable www.scambs.gov.uk • answer your phone message within three working days Social media: If you write to us we will • reply to your letter or email within 10 working days @SouthCambs ‘South Cambridgeshire’ If we write to you we will • write in plain language Email or call: • arrange for translation, large type, braille or audio tapes Benefits: [email protected] 03450 450 061 upon request buildingcontrol@ Building Control: 0300 772 9622 If we visit you we will 3Csharedservices.org • carry identification that you can Elections: [email protected] 03450 455 214 check with a phone call to our contact service on 03450 450 500 Environmental Services: [email protected] 03450 450 063 • arrive at the time we say we will, or give you as much notice as Housing Fraud: [email protected] 03450 450 051 possible if we have to change the time Fraud (general): [email protected] 03450 450 061 If we get it wrong we will Housing: [email protected] 03450 450 051 • apologise if we have made a mistake or failed to meet Planning: [email protected] 03450 455 215 our standards • acknowledge your written Revenues: [email protected] 03450 450 064 complaint within three working days Rents: [email protected] 03450 455 216 • reply in full to your complaint within 10 working days For all other enquiries: [email protected] 03450 450 500 Visit or write: To make a South Cambridgeshire District Council, payment South Cambridgeshire Hall, • Visit www.scambs.gov.uk and Tell us how Cambourne Business Park, click on the ‘Pay for it’ button Cambourne, Cambridge, CB23 6EA • Call our automated payment line we’re doing Office open Monday to Friday, on 03450 455 218 We’re proud of what we are trying 8am to 5.30pm to achieve and recognise we can You can also pay using a payment card always do better. To help improve our at any Post Office or Pay Point outlet services, we need your feedback. To request a Direct Debit form or Whether it’s a compliment, a general a Post Office payment card, call comment or a complaint, we want to 03450 450 064. To find out how to hear from you. set up a Direct Debit online to pay www.scambs.gov.uk/contact-us your Council Tax, see page 39. 4 www.scambs.gov.uk Spring 2020 Spring 2020 www.scambs.gov.uk 5 Environment Zero carbon communities take action As the global climate crisis gets ever more real, local groups are stepping up their response and helping us cut carbon emissions. We’re looking to fund more not-for-profit groups as we want your help to become a net-zero carbon district by 2050. What does net-zero carbon mean? Cycling Greenhouse gases are released when fossil fuels – like petrol, diesel, gas and coal – are burned. Orchard Park’s Cambridge Carbon dioxide is one of these Cohousing will purchase a gases, and we’ve released so community electric cargo much into the atmosphere that trike that will be decorated in it’s changing the climate. This is climate change awareness causing increased floods, wildfires artwork and used to take and droughts across the world, and children to and from school. urgent action is needed to avoid Additionally, the parish councils things getting worse. in Teversham and Great Abington will purchase electric In South Cambridgeshire we’re bikes, while Waterbeach playing our part.