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SAXON PIT: RECENT PRESS ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHS –
WHAT DO THEY SHOW?
Thank you to everyone who attended the Public Health meeting at Manor Leisure Centre on Wednesday 4 February. The turnout over the five-hour drop-in session was exceptional, with the venue at capacity for much of the day. We welcome the proposals to improve monitoring and to involve residents more directly in looking at cumulative impacts across the area.
Many of you will also have seen the recent CambsNews planning breach story.
Saxongate has written formally to the Environment Agency regarding IBA being stored outside the permitted Waste Reception Area.
The article raises an obvious question: how can expansion be considered if basic containment conditions are not being consistently followed?
The photographs published with the article are worth a close look.
They appear to show:
Some residents have also asked whether the appearance of certain solar panels suggests dust deposition.
The Environment Agency describes the site’s water system as a “closed-loop” arrangement, meaning water that has contacted incinerator bottom ash is stored and reused for dust suppression.
That naturally leads to a number of reasonable questions:
We have submitted updated objections to various active planning and permit applications. In our view, it would be unwise to consider any site expansion before the adequacy of the greywater system and IBA storage area has been clearly explained.
THE REGULATORY POSITION
Planning decisions, environmental permits and public health functions are often treated as separate processes, yet they relate to the same operations and the same community. When concerns arise, residents are frequently told that an issue falls within another authority’s remit.
The Environment Agency’s decision on the water pumping permit has been described as imminent. The planning application to increase capacity remains live.
This is precisely why continued public scrutiny matters.
The recent article in the Cambs Times also highlights this point.
Saxongate campaigners urge Whittlesey residents to join them | Cambs Times
Please encourage people to join our mailing list (saxongate2022@gmail.com), stay informed and continue to make their views known politely and clearly.
With your support, we will continue pressing for transparency, proper monitoring and joined-up oversight.
Saxongate Residents Group.
Facebook = https://www.facebook.com/SaxonGatePE7
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Just so residents are NOT confused.
Fenland District and Whittlesey Town Councils, ar NOT putting their rates/precept up.
Mayor Combined Authority CPCA NOT putting precept up this year.
County Council, Police & Crime Commisioner and Fire Authority ALL up.
Council tax bills for everyone in the county will go up from April, as a maximum increase has been approved by Cambridgeshire County Council.
The authority will be increasing its share of the council tax bill by 4.99%.
This includes a 2.99% increase in the basic council tax precept and a 2% increase for the adult social care precept.
At a full council meeting on Tuesday, Cllr Lucy Nethsingha (Liberal Democrat), leader of the council, said this had been “the most difficult budget” to set since she became leader.
She said: “The key challenges facing this council are the cost in social care, both in children and adults, and the cost of SEND education.
“All these are statutory services, providing care to the most vulnerable residents.
In particular, Cllr Nethsingha highlighted the plans to invest an additional £20million in highways maintenance, on top of government funding.
Cllr Nethsingha said the county’s roads are “in a poor state” and need continued investment.
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Was the picture I posted about Cllr Singh NOT attending the Surgery last Saturday a ‘real’ photo or had I (AI) it…the answer is NO it is a real picture, and I did make representation to the Chair after the meeting…..
‘If’ I was to AI (Artificial intelligence) – I would say so…
Ghostings @ WTC….
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The bus shelter which was damaged at A605/Peterborough Road, over a year ago.
Arguments over ‘ownership’ of the bus shelter, even though the culprit was identidied.
Eventually Cambs CC put their hands up – then the issue was it wasn’t their standard bus shelter…on and one….again.
Alas I was sent these photo’s yesterday ‘whoppee’ but then notice that the litter-bin, was overflowing….can it get worse I ask….so another task.. just done it reported to FDC….
(RG)
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A council leader has admitted it would be “pretty much impossible” as it stands to get all of a county’s roads into good condition, in the face of an £800m maintenance backlog.
Cambridgeshire County Council’s network includes “soil-affected” roads – built on peat – that have buckled, which the authority has claimed can cost four times as much to repair as standard ones.
The council has proposed spending £58m on planned highways maintenance in 2026-27 – 7.25% of the backlog.
Speaking ahead of the budget being discussed at a full council meeting on Tuesday, the Liberal Democrat leader Lucy Nethsingha acknowledged “it’s not an acceptable position for residents of Cambridgeshire”.
Read complete article on BBC News Website
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Welcome to another packed month in The Fenlander, with news of how you can input to help shape how the district develops in coming years, updates on major projects and new protections for our heritage.
There’s also career opportunities not to be missed, details of community events and a community grant.
In this month’s The Fenlander:
Community safety updates and messages
Have your say on Fenland’s future as new Local Plan gets under way.
Residents, businesses and community groups are invited to help shape the future of Fenland by taking part in a simple survey.
The survey forms an initial step in the development of a new Local Plan.
The plan, known as Fenland 50, will guide how Fenland grows and changes up to 2050, influencing where new homes and jobs go, how towns and villages develop, how flood risk is managed, and the quality of new development.
The survey, or scoping consultation, will run until 9am on Monday, 16 March.
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Not only the leader of Fenland District Council, a Whittlesey Town Councillor and Cambs County Councillor, he has other positions elsewhere and numberous committee appointments – experienced and knowledgable –
He should have well known how his presentation about getting more money allocated for highways was going to go – that is nowhere….the £Million or so he was hoping to secure, would have made very little difference to our roads.
The problem is not now or recent, it stems from Governments for the past 50 years,
milking the motorist and not putting enough back….
Then of course yet another vain project HS2 – Billions and Billions of wasted money – ruin many woodlands on the way…. and remember this it was Labour & Gordon Brown and his cabinet came to approve HS2 in the first place in 2010 thats already 16 years ago.
So give Boden his due, he put a ‘political’ case knowing that the ‘broken’ highways within not only our area but throughout the country was a dead duck…. (no disrespect to ‘ducks’)
HS2 Failure
Ghosting – Bad Highways Again & Again
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I was a member and treasurer of the Whittlesey Mud Walls Group, until the numbers dwindled to just 5 of us, we handed the project back to The Whittlesey Society.
The 18th Century mud walls built to beat brick tax – BBC article – Click Here.
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New protection for historic mud walls in Whittlesey.
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