Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

As per my previous posting about a burst sewer main at Coates, near the Carpenters Arms
Here is a picture today (Sunday) – at least one way traffic…

As previously posted – If anyone needs to contact Fenland District Council for help, they have set up a Telephone Hub – here is the update on :- Saturday morning opening.

Getting help from the Council

In line with government advice, we have temporarily closed our Customer Service Centres and Hubs. You can still contact us, request help, apply for services or make payments by calling our contact centre on 01354 654321 or using our website.

We have set up a telephone hub that signposts residents toward access to food, medicine and other important services.

If you need help or aren’t sure who to turn to, please give us a call on 01354 654321
Below is the updated link to email Fenland District Council dedicated Covid19 address.
I have tested is and it should launch you e-mail

covid19@fenland.gov.uk

The call centre will be open between 09:00 and 16:00 Monday to Friday
and Saturday morning.

The 654321 number has had its capacity significantly enhanced in the last 48 hours.

Connie & I along with a few neighbours did go out and ‘Clap’ in support of our NHS and many others involved in the current pandemic….I could hear further around many others joining in….

My fresh air yesterday was a short run on my ‘mobility truck’ along Blackbush Drove – we in general here in Whittlesey & Villages are never far away from fields and countryside.
I only came across 4 other people walking and we kept at a very safe distance.

Please as we keep getting advised – best stay away from others at present…..

Due to a burst rising main (Pumped Sewer) with sewage on the road (09:39am),
the A605 in Coates nearby South Green (Carpenters Arms) will be closed for at least the rest of today.

Traffic will need to divert and access to March/Turves/Wisbech from Whittlesey will have to go via an alternative route – A141, A47 and A1139

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The Kings Dyke crossing has to be the ‘most’ jinked projects in the country.
I am not apportioning any fault – it is purely circumstances – the Covid-19 pandemic has now caused prep work due to start next month to be postponed.
On this occasion I fully endorse Cambs CC/PCC to protect workers under the current situation.
At one point I was considering running a lottery on when the project would start and when completed….

I have been informed from a reliable source, that shop assistants in one of our ‘independent supermarket’ has been subjected to verbal abuse, the abuser(s) were ejected and banned from the store.

Resident recently wrote to CCC leader Steve Count…
His reply below…

The County Council is leading on the Strategic co-ordination group and we issue a daily briefing to the media. Our county council website www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk is also updated regularly as information changes. There are also messages coming out from other organisations such as FDC and from individuals such as myself on behalf of CCC to either enhance the core messages or add to them in the context of their specific areas of responsibility. It would be useful if your facebook site could re-broadcast those trusted messages. Apart from our site for some localised information the government web site, NHS England and Public Health England are key go to places for information.