Comberton Parish Council are running an online survey about the recreation facilities that the village should plan to have in the future.
The Parish Council is extending the deadline to submit a response to the Recreation Facilities Survey to 31st January 2023. The more responses we receive, the stronger our applications for funding will be. Note that we accept one response per resident. Groups are invited to email a letter to the clerk ( @ ). If you have any questions, or if you would like to help, please contact the clerk. Many thanks
The online survey is here, it closes on 31st January 2023.
CPC needs more responses from the old age groups, and teenagers to reflect better our village demographics!!
As of late November 2022 our Village Pond has recovered well as the ground water level has risen through the gravel beds (click image for bigger picture)
Below is what it looked like ten years ago, before many of the invasive plants were ‘donated’.
People hope to see a floating island added to act as a sanctuary for breeding moorhens etc
Pictures of the works were added as the project evolved – last updated 24th November 2022
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Two pictures show that the coir matting laid over the earthworks up’hill’ of the boundary have now been covered and some plants are already growing up through it !
The outfall from the field drain hasn’t yet shown any flow in the recent days of rain but the one from the Green End gulley has, but unfortunately has washed some of the seeds away. I have added a splash area of stones to disperse it a bite, hopefully.
The Ducks have returned for their daily bath at 7am (I am told) and now the planting is greening after the arid summer…
Planting for Coir Rolls
AGA’s native wetland plants are selected for their adaptation to varied physical conditions and also provide excellent cover for invertebrates, fish and other animals. All the rolls are planted at their Merton Hall Ponds nursery using mature bare roots (MBR).
They plant the coir rolls with 6 plants per metre – a mix of four from:
AGA will return in late autumn or the spring to plant further plants in better conditions than this summer !
PLEASE Do NOT put ANY plants or fish into the pond !
Re-introduction of appropriate plants is being done slowly and systematically by CPC’s Pond Working Group to encourage bio-diversity and to stop non-native and invasive species causing the pond to revert to its poor state in 2021.
Work on the village pond started on Monday 25th July and was expected to last three weeks. During that timeframe the area around the village pond was inaccessible, protected by fencing. Residents should take care around the site, particularly when contractor vehicles are moving around the site. They will be removing the island, dredging the silt, deepening the pond, removing the plants, repairing the brick work and then adding plants at the end of the project. It is not being re-lined.
This work has been funded by a £10k grant from the The National Lottery Community Fund (championed by Claire Coulson and the CPC Pond Working Group) and two pre-allocated budget amounts from last years and this years CPC budgets (i.e. from residents precept).
East West Rail (EWR) have released their 2024 non-statutory consultation update report
As part of this process, EWR asked for feedback on our latest proposals and designs. Since the consultation closed, EWR have been carefully considering all the feedback received, and that feedback will help inform their final design which will be presented at the statutory consultation next year.
More than 6,000 people responded to their latest consultation, which included over 90,000 individual responses. This update report contains a summary of the themes of this feedback and how it is being considered, as well as a summary of how EWR approached the 2024 non-statutory consultation and details about the way the consultation was delivered.
It is not the purpose of their update report to include detailed responses to the feedback received through the NSC process, as that information will be provided in a “You Said, We Did” report which will be published at statutory consultation.
