Waterbeach Summer Barracks 2017 Newsletter 6 Welcome to the sixth community newsletter from Urban&Civic. Urban&Civic is the Development Manager appointed by the Hello Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) to take forward the development of the former Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield site. In this edition: With the Outline Planning Application submitted in February 2017, and formal consultation events Waterbeach Running Festival 4-5 concluded, the key partners involved are working through a range of follow-up discussions and Summer at the Beach 6-7 technical reviews as part of the planning process. 514 Squadron Reunion 8 While those discussions continue, Urban&Civic is continuing to open up the Barracks for local Planehunters Lancaster 9 use and is building local partnerships to ensure NN775 Excavation the development coming forward maximises local benefits and minimises local impacts. Reopening of the Waterbeach 10-11 Military Heritage Museum In this newsletter we set out the latest on the planning discussions and some of the recent Feature on Denny Abbey and 12-15 community events on site including the Waterbeach The Farmland Museum Running Festival, Summer at the Beach and the reopening of the Waterbeach Military Heritage Cycling Infrastructure 16-17 Museum. We have also been out and about exploring Denny Abbey and the Farmland Museum. Planning update 18-19 We are always happy to meet up with anyone who wants a more detailed discussion of the plans, to come along to speak to local groups or provide a tour of the site or the facilities for hire. Please get in touch with me using the contact details below. Very best wishes Rebecca Britton Partnerships and Communities Urban&Civic T 01480 413 141 M 07739 339 889 E [email protected] Urban&Civic The Control Tower Waterbeach Barracks Denny End Road Part of the historic Causeway between Denny Abbey and Waterbeach Abbey, Waterbeach which will be reconnected through the Barracks and Airfield development. Cambridgeshire CB25 9PA 2 3 Over 600 runners took part in the Waterbeach Waterbeach Toddler Playgroup’s second running festival at running festival Waterbeach Barracks in May, raising nearly Community £4,000 for the charity. raises money This family-friendly event included 2km, 5km and 10km races, as well as a 100m toddle for Toddler for children under five years old. Waterbeach Features Playgroup Brass Band gave runners an extra boost and accompaniment as they neared the finish line. Alongside the races, attractions included a bouncy castle and slide, bushcraft activities, children’s colouring corner and refreshment stalls available as part of the Festival Village. Jessica Kitt, from Waterbeach Toddler Playgroup, said: “It was a great day, everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves and we’ve smashed our fundraising target - so a big thank you to everyone who took part and also to the volunteers and sponsors who helped make the event possible. “Watching the under 5s take part in their 100m toddle was perhaps one of the most entertaining moments, with children running – or not – in all directions.” Urban&Civic’s Rebecca Britton said: “It is great to see the running festival go from strength to strength – with the number of attendees and funds raised almost double that of last year. Lots of runners achieved personal bests and there was a real sense of community spirit, with people having lots of fun whilst supporting a local charity.” Waterbeach Toddler Playgroup is currently fund-raising for its move to new premises on the Barracks site. Urban&Civic is working with the County Council to secure a change of use for the former shooting range building, which sits next to the community rooms and Museum. The plans are to turn this building into an early years’ space for Waterbeach Toddler Playgroup. A Planning Application by the County Council has been submitted, and there will be a chance to drop in “ to talk to the Council team and see the It is great to see the plans in the Community Rooms on 28 running festival go from September, 2pm – 7pm. strength to strength. Further details will also be provided in the next edition. Rebecca Britton ” For details about the event or the Playgroup, visit: www.waterbeachtoddlerplaygroup.org.uk 4 5 In addition to the art exhibition, Waterbeach and the Fens Pop up Café and Sophie’s Summer Summer at the Beach involved continue to shape their writing. Café and people were able to other events and activities take their broken objects to showcase celebrating the diverse range of • The Great Nepal Book be fixed, free of charge, by a creativity within the community, Swap – the fourth such panel of volunteer experts at of creative including: event with proceeds going the Repair Café. to an orphanage in Nepal. talent • The Beach Sessions Previous donations provided Local filmmaker Jack Jenkinson presented chilled out Music each child in the orphanage produced a short video about by the Runway featuring with a new book once a the event, which is available – some of the region’s best month and text books, along with more information – at acoustic singer/songwriters: as well as covering the www.summeratthebeach.co.uk Clockwork Cassettes, Melody cost of a bookcase. Causton, David Greeves and If you have an artistic talent you St Simeon & the Stylites. There was also a paper plane would like to showcase at next workshop where creations were year’s event, email Gideon Pain • A screening of Finding decorated before test flights, at [email protected]. Family, the deeply moving a bike bling workshop where story of double Bafta winning old bicycles were transformed Cambridge filmmaker Oggi and made to sparkle, a display Exhibit by Theo Gayer-Anderson Tomic’s return to his native of one of the Cambridge 31a Bosnia, 27 years after being Model Railway Club’s layouts abandoned in an orphanage, and the Waterbeach Cycling to meet the mother and family Campaign discussing cycling he never knew. issues in the Waterbeach area For the second year running Artists displaying in The Studio and offering bike repairs, Waterbeach Barracks provided and the Community Rooms, • Waterbeach novelists, Penny free of charge. the venue for “Summer at the included: Hancock and Guinevere Beach”, over the first three Glasfurd held an author Refreshments – including a wide weekends in July. Local artists, Sara Noel Tarryn Porter discussion and book signing, variety of homemade cakes and exhibiting their work as part Working as The Claysmith Illustrator and painter capturing sharing their work, and how bakes - were available from the of the Cambridge Open Studios – decorative and practical the atmosphere and essence of events, were joined by an ceramics inspired by typeface, text in artworks. eclectic mix of creative talent nature and some of the prints from the village. of Louise Bourgeois. Richard Youell A landscape and street Around 600 people came along Sheena Grummitt photographer, a field sound to see the art and craft exhibits, Ceramic artist using hand building recordist and sound listen to live music, attend to create sculptural and functional installation artist. book signings, participate in pieces inspired by nature. workshops and soak up the Ian Bracey summer sun in a relaxed and Theo Gayer-Anderson Photographer and painter mainly inspiring series of events. Sculptor working in many focused on landscape, cityscape media including ceramic, and travel subjects. Gideon Pain, local artist stone and bronze. and event coordinator, said: Susan Barnes “Summer at the Beach is Gideon Pain Screen prints created from a fantastic opportunity for Oil and acrylic painter working photographs taken in her Waterbeach’s artistic community out of a small home studio and travels, using overlaying colour. to come together, showcase its regularly exhibiting nationally talent and celebrate the place and internationally. Karen Lewis that inspires us. This year we Milliner inspired by themes Summer“ at the Beach is extended the event to include Chris Evans from the natural world, authors, filmmakers and musicians Mixed media painter recording creating her own textures a fantastic opportunity and are delighted that so many the icons, archetypes and using feathers, embroidery for Waterbeach’s artistic people from the village joined us signposts he encounters. and beadwork. and participated in the events.” community to come together, Andrew Taylor Finn Buchanan and showcase its talent and Mixed media painter creating Leila Aluwihare abstract collages using a variety Both mixed media artists, celebrate the place that of materials including plaster, also exhibited having recently inspires us. paint and fragments of maps, graduated from the Long Ceramics by Sheena Grummitt music and poems. Road Foundation Course. Gideon Pain ” 6 7 Benny Ceulauers donating the framed tribute Two archaeology groups, Planehunters and BAHAAT, formed a project group and the excavation took place in November 2016. While the plane had been Focus dramatically compressed by the impact of the crash – from 20 metres to 3.5m long – the plane parts were well preserved due to the wet soil. Recovered parts include landing gear, wheels and a Heritage propeller attached to an engine. Benny Ceulauers, Chairman of “ Planehunters donated a framed It’s fantastic to see tribute with names and pictures everyone together of the lost crew and artefacts again, listening to from the excavation, which will be kept in the Waterbeach our veterans sharing Military Heritage Museum. their stories of life Benny said: “It was a wonderful at the Barracks. experience to do this big recovery. Clive Hill It is a hobby for us but we are so ” dedicated to the task of finding parts and searching for lost members of the crew. It is good that we can bring closure to the families of those who gave their Air Vice-Marshal Richard Knighton CB joins Second World War veterans from 514 Squadron at the Reunion lives to liberate Europe.