March 2020
The Parish Newsletter of Weston Colville and West Wratting The views expressed herein are those of the contributors. Printed by E & E Plumridge Ltd, Linton (Cambridge 891407)
BRINGING THE PUB BACK Saturday Morning Café, West Wratting th TO WESTON COLVILLE Our next cafe will be on Saturday 7 March between 10.30 am and noon in the village hall. The café works by different volunteers kindly offering to serve and donate cakes every month. The money raised continues to be donated to local community projects. All proceeds from the bookstall will go to Granta School. Sherry (290070) and Catherine (291307)
Tea and Cakes •CASK ALE FROM A LOCAL BREWERY •SOFT DRINKS I am writing this before we have had •SPINNEY ABBEY CIDER •SPANISH BOCATAS our February gathering which will be •WINE & PROSECCO •TRADITIONAL PUB GAMES during half term and so likely to be WESTON COLVILLE READING ROOM attended by only the hard core tea and cakes goers. However many people attend, it's always lovely to FRIDAY 6th MARCH meet and catch up over a cuppa and cake. We meet next on Friday 27th March, 3.30 - 5 pm at the BAR & FOOD 6.30 - 10.00 PM Reading Room. All are welcome. Please come and FOR INFO, CONTACT: [email protected] join us. Melanie (291319) Weston Colville Circular Walk Our next walk will be on Saturday 28th March, meeting in the Reading Room at 10 am. As the River Café Church Stour rises in our parish, and the Stour Festival are Sunday 8th March including the walk on their website, the route will take in part of it. BYO lunch and maybe something to 4 - 5 pm share back in the Reading Room afterwards. Come West Wratting Church and join us – all welcome, refreshments available. Enquiries: 291475, [email protected] Stephen Munday CBE Exec Head, Comberton VC Delivery Help Wanted ‘Running Schools and being a Help wanted to deliver Challenge in Common Road, Christian. A good mix?’ Weston Colville. It will take less than half an hour a month to deliver Challenge to fifteen houses in Tea, coffee and cakes Common Road. If you could help, please contact me. Programme for children Anne Vidler (290010) Everyone, all ages, very welcome
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Weston Colville Cinema Club On 4th March, we’ll show the iconic and Songs of Praise acclaimed film ‘Bladerunner’, regarded as one of the Getting Ready for best sci-fi EASTER movies ever. Then as the first Wednesday next Sunday 29th March 4 - 5 pm month falls on 1st April, West Wratting Church we’ll be celebrating April Everyone welcome Fool’s Day with a comedy, Child-friendly songs chosen from the select few Bonfire and food afterwards films given a four-star rating in Halliwell’s Film Guide. It’s a French film, but without Weston Colville Seniors subtitles – none are needed. Our February meeting was well attended. We started Come and laugh! Both films off at the earlier time of 2 pm with our chair yoga will be shown in the Reading session with Charlotte. Room from 7.30 pm. All This was followed by a fascinating talk on the local welcome, refreshments history of our village by Tim Cockerill, assisted by available. some of our older members in identifying people and Jacqueline Douglas places on the many photographs. (291475, [email protected]) Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 10th March, at Tennis Club AGM our normal time of 2.30 pm in the Reading The d'Abo Tennis Club Annual General Meeting will Room, when our own member Jenny Taylor will be be held on Wednesday 18th March at 7.30 pm. As in showing us how to make her beautiful hand made previous years, Mr & Mrs Colin McCall have kindly cards. I am sure many of you will have bought or offered to host the meeting in their home, The Old received one of her cards. Please bring a small pair of Vicarage, West Wratting, CB21 5LU. scissors with you. Jenny will provide all the materials for an extra donation. All members are welcome to attend. If you are unable to attend the meeting but have any points to be raised, We will end our meeting with a chair yoga session please send your comments by email to: with Charlotte. [email protected], or by post to: We are a friendly group open to anyone over 60 or The Treasurer, Mark Holme, Scarletts Farm, anyone who has retired in our local villages. Just Padlock Road, West Wratting, CB21 5LS to arrive by come along or contact me. Monday 16th March. Val Scott (290837, [email protected]) Cally Wilson
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West Wratting Oil Syndicate evocation of the times and social attitudes, with a There will be a Syndicate fill-up this month and the strong ending. The setting had personal resonances order cut-off is Monday 16th March at 6.30 pm. for two of our number. Place your orders either by email to me at All enjoyed the book, although one person had some [email protected] and put your surname in reservations, wondering whether it was feasible for the subject box (if you don’t get a reply from me to her to develop the language and writing skills which your emailed order within 48 hours, please place your she does later in the story. It was definitely a ‘page order with The Chestnut Tree by phone), or by turner’, quite tense at times with unexpected plot phoning the pub during licensing hours – not too late, twists. Scores were between 7 and 9 out of 10, and please – on 290384. Please also make sure that you we would recommend it. tell me if you have any special delivery requirements, We will next meet on Tuesday 17th March at 7.30 pm such as ‘Phone day before for gate to be unlocked’ to talk about ‘The Dutch House’ by Ann Patchett. The etc. In addition to the regular suppliers, I may use book for April will be ‘The English Patient’ by BoilerJuice or another order consolidation website, Michael Ondaatje, to link in with the May Weston whoever gives the best price. Colville film club screening. Remember that syndicate orders take at least a couple Linda Gorman of weeks from the cut-off date to be collated, brokered and delivered, and the minimum order is 500 litres. Weston Colville ‘Pub’ Quiz Phil Tempest ([email protected]) We’re holding the next quiz on Wednesday 22nd April at 8 pm. Up to four per team, entry £2 per person. West Wratting Book Club Bar with wine, cider and draft ale. All welcome, For February, we read ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ by enquiries: 291475, [email protected] Delia Owens, a wildlife scientist who has written several books about her life and work in Africa, and now lives in North Carolina. Set in the marshes of North Carolina in the 1950s and 60s, it is at once a murder mystery, a love story and a natural history book. It tells the story of a young girl, left to her own devices when the rest of her family leave because of the drunken and violent father. She learns to fend for herself with the support of only one or two friends, one of whom helps her to educate herself. She also learns lessons from the creatures of the marsh. There are wonderfully detailed descriptions of the environment and wildlife, and an
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Churchyard Clear-up, St Andrew's The spring clear-up of the churchyard will be on Saturday 11th April between 10 am and 12 noon. As ever, there will be tea, coffee, hot cross buns and doughnuts. Everyone is welcome. Looking forward to seeing you. Colin McCall (290036)
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Granta Vale Community Hubs WEST WRATTING PARISH COUNCIL – Friendship, Community and Care Granta Notice of Vacancy for Councillor Balsham Church Institute, Church Vale Lane, Balsham CB21 4DS on 1. There is a vacancy on the above parish council Thursday 5th March, 2 - 4 pm. caused by the resignation of Cllr B Glennon-Lynch. Abington Institute, 66 High Street, Great Abington 2. A bye-election will be held to fill the vacancy if, CB21 6AB on Tuesday 24th March, 2 - 4 pm. within 14 Statutory Days (does not include The Parish Nurse will be there as well as a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holidays) from the date representative from REACH. Free tea, coffee and below, 10 (ten) electors for the West Wratting cake, and the opportunity to meet others. Parish give notice in writing to the Returning Officer claiming such an election. [email protected] 3. The address of the Returning Officer is: The Old Butchers Book Club 4. The Returning Officer South Cambridgeshire District Council We are a new book club and we will meet on the first Cambourne Business Park Friday of every month at the Old Butchers Coffee Cambourne CB3 6EA Shop. Our first book will be ‘The Lost Man’ by Jane 5. If no such notice is given, the West Wratting Harper, a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Anyone is Parish Council will fill the vacancy by co-option. welcome to join us and chat about the book. Anyone who would like to put their name forward Our first meeting will be on Friday 1st May, from to be considered for co-option please email, write 10 am until 11.15 am at The Old Butchers Coffee to or phone the Parish Clerk. Shop, 35 High Street, Balsham CB21 4DJ. Dated 17th February 2020 Please contact me for further information and to tell Parish Clerk: Jennifer Richards, us if you are thinking of coming so we have some West Lodge, 88 High St, Balsham, CB21 4EP idea of numbers, or drop a note into the Old Butchers. 01223 665260; [email protected] Mary Newton ([email protected]) PEST CONTROL SERVICES AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC
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The buildings are derelict, so potentially there cement will be a re-development and creation of a hardiboard. manufacturing facility for gene/cell therapy, to S/4232/19/ Weston Prior notification Approved PN Woods Farm, of agricultural or . complement the nearby research and science parks. Common Rd, forestry West Wratting Estate will retain ownership and lease CB21 5NR development for out the new barn style buildings. He suggested there the erection of a would be a 6 - 12 month timescale before a formal plant room extension to application was submitted. Cllr Vidler thanked him existing barn. for his time. Website – Cllr Pagonis advised that the website was Flooding – an email had been received from a ready to be used and that a working party be formed parishioner concerning the flooding on Common to add content, and demonstrate how to use it. It was th Road, on 20 December. Other parishioners had determined that the clerk and Cllr Vidler would attend expressed concern about the amount of sediment on 14th January. A parishioner had been taking gathering under the bridge crossing the ford at the photographs, and had sent these across. bottom of Horseshoe Lane. The end of the road is not adopted; Cllr Batchelor was asked to look into the Street Lighting – the Reading Room Car Park light ownership, so the sediment could be cleared. The had been fixed, and added to the lighting list. The ditch behind the recreation ground is overgrown, and cost of the additional light may be backdated to requires a working party to clear it, as a lot of debris October. A brief discussion took place about has been dumped in it, and vegetation needs to be cut switching to LED bulbs, but they were deemed to be back. too bright. Field Compost Ltd We’ll Help Your Garden Grow Soil Improvers Composts Manure Soil Bark Woodchip Mulch Lawn Care Horticultural Sundries www.fieldcompost.co.uk [email protected] 01440 966966 6 March 2020 I & S GROUNDWORKS LTD Chalice Tree Sew Crafty Workshops Your Local Company for at 7 Honey Hill, West Wratting CB21 5NQ Driveways Adult beginner and refresher Patios sewing lessons available – Foundations one to one or group Drainage Site Clearance Bespoke workshops and parties Rhiannon Waygood Please call This Photo by Ian Boreham on 07831672907 or 01223 291490 07774 414085 Simon Boreham on 07768821364 [email protected] Hedges – Cllr Garrod met with one of the means at a detriment to the reserves, and without a landowners, who will be cutting his hedges. The clerk significant increase there would have to be cuts to was instructed to contact the other landowner again. charitable donations and other areas. The council SID and LHI – the LHI application has been should hold 6 - 9 months’ worth of spending in submitted. Cllr Hubbard will present the application reserves. In future years the precept increase would to the panel. There has been a software issue with the remain low. SID, so not much recent data. Date of next meeting – 2nd March. Footpaths – no action from the owners is being taken Dates of Parish Council Meetings in 2020 – for the bridge at footpath 19. Steps have been 2nd March, 6th April (planning), 4th May AGM and installed at the new bridge on Chapel Road. APM, 1st June (planning), 6th July, 3rd August Ivy House Development –a report was received. (planning), 7th September, 5th October (planning), 2nd November, 7th December (planning). Playground – it was determined to apply for a Ray Vidler, Chairman (290010, [email protected]) Wadlow Windfarm grant to replace the fencing at the Jessica Ashbridge, Clerk ([email protected]) recreation ground. The clerk was instructed to seek quotes. Cllrs Jackson and Hubbard to complete the Local Rail application. It was also determined to instruct David The government have announced the route for the Bracey to inspect the playgrounds in 2020. His quote new rail line between Oxford and Cambridge, named remained the same as 2019, allowing the clerk/Cllr to East-West rail. This ‘Northern Route’ will come into accompany him on his inspection. Cambridgeshire via Cambourne and then go south Finance down the side of the city to link up with the new Cambridge South Station at Addenbrookes hospital. Budget – it was determined to remove £850 for tree work. All s106 money had been spent. Following a Network Rail’s consultation on the details of discussion the budget was agreed. Cambridge South Station around final location, nd Precept – it was determined to raise the precept to access, connectivity etc runs until 2 March. For full £12,500, as the council has been spending beyond its details and ability to engage, go to: www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/ R BRISTLEY our-routes/anglia/cambridge-south-station 9 COLLINGS PLACE, NEWMARKET Attempted Burglary BRUSH ELECTRIC SWEEP An incident happened on 16th February during Storm • All Chimneys Swept Dennis, when my back gates were broken to gain • Solid Fuel, Oil & Gas • Cowls, Nets & Pots Fitted access to my workshop. Luckily enough the attempt • Stoves Repaired & Inspected failed, as entry couldn’t be gained. • Carpets Cleaned • Competitive Prices I have reported it to the police and thought that I • Very Clean • Family Business should raise the alert just in case there has been any • Public Liability Insurance other suspicious activity in the area. ☎ Newmarket1974 (01638) 662439 Glenn, The Green, Weston Colville Est 7 March 2020