Julian Bray Chair PFNW and Shailesh Vara MPThe coffee morning called by our Member of Parliament Mr Shailesh Vara on Saturday 29th january at the church hall in Mace Road was very well attended, in fact a full house! Mr Vara was also joined by local PCC councillors, Brian Rush and Irene Walsh. Our own Stanground councillor Janet Wilkinson, who is standing down was unfortunately not present.
The Police PCSO’s for our area also attended. Mrs Rush made the tea, coffee and supplied a cake mountain (thank you, it was a cold morning and very welcome).
Julian and Morag attended with PFNW hats on as observers, on a non political basis. We queried on your behalf MP Vara about Magna Park, (still on the cards as Janet Wilkinson for some reason had voted FOR it). This was news to Mr Vara who expressed his deep concern, he is firmly against the development (as are we).
It will be interesting to see how the several candidates for councillor of our ward on May 5 view the developments. Hopefully we can ask all the candidates to let us have a brief statement, which we will carry on the PFNW website if all the candidates contribute, we will of course keep you up to date.
Mr Vara is following up our concerns with the Leader of the Council. The plan by the Dubai. World, Economic Zones subsidiary Gazeley may have been shelved temporarily as the dire UK economic situation impacts. However it has not gone away, and will remain as a threat to us all.
The Police PCSO’s for our area also attended. Mrs Rush made the tea, coffee and supplied a cake mountain (thank you, it was a cold morning and very welcome).
Julian and Morag attended with PFNW hats on as observers, on a non political basis. We queried on your behalf MP Vara about Magna Park, (still on the cards as Janet Wilkinson for some reason had voted FOR it). This was news to Mr Vara who expressed his deep concern, he is firmly against the development (as are we).
It will be interesting to see how the several candidates for councillor of our ward on May 5 view the developments. Hopefully we can ask all the candidates to let us have a brief statement, which we will carry on the PFNW website if all the candidates contribute, we will of course keep you up to date.
Mr Vara is following up our concerns with the Leader of the Council. The plan by the Dubai. World, Economic Zones subsidiary Gazeley may have been shelved temporarily as the dire UK economic situation impacts. However it has not gone away, and will remain as a threat to us all.
None of us want to live next to ‘Gatwick Airport’ which is precisely the level of 24 hours a day, seven days a week light and noise pollution we can expect. We also hear that Gazeley are to offer the roof surface space of all the eight mega warehouses as a huge solar power farm, which of course will increase the overall height of each structure. Not to mention the reflected glare spill from the thousands of solar panels.
Constituents concerns raised with our MP included speeding on our roads and HGV lorries using Stanground as a convenient cut through as they have for many years before the by-pass opened. Concerns were expressed the bypass is still not being used and no signage or GPS (TOM TOM etc ) points to it.
We also heard a very sad story of a senior local couple who are being harassed (this has been going on for several years now) by weeds blowing and widespread seeding of weeds onto their well maintained garden, from the land bank owned but not properly maintained by Persimmon.
We have promised to take this up with the main Persimmon Board in London to see if we can to rectify the situation, the regional office seemingly not listening to ur residents for three years at least. This senior couple were obviously very distressed by all this. Such harassment is in blatent contravention of Persimmons own often quoted environmental policy, and it won’t take too much pressure for a series of formal written objections to be lodged every time Persimmon put up a new scheme.
We also learned about an access cut through for a new Morrisons Supermarket. Two houses will go to make way for the roadway. This project seems to have gone out to a wide scattergun formal consultation process, neatly ignoring those directly involved. To say the constituents present were fizzing is an understatement. Those standing for council on May 6th take note!
A very useful morning all round. Very well attended and hopefully a chance for everyone to air their views. We look forward to more of these throughout the year and our MP thanked everyone involved.
Constituents concerns raised with our MP included speeding on our roads and HGV lorries using Stanground as a convenient cut through as they have for many years before the by-pass opened. Concerns were expressed the bypass is still not being used and no signage or GPS (TOM TOM etc ) points to it.
We also heard a very sad story of a senior local couple who are being harassed (this has been going on for several years now) by weeds blowing and widespread seeding of weeds onto their well maintained garden, from the land bank owned but not properly maintained by Persimmon.
We have promised to take this up with the main Persimmon Board in London to see if we can to rectify the situation, the regional office seemingly not listening to ur residents for three years at least. This senior couple were obviously very distressed by all this. Such harassment is in blatent contravention of Persimmons own often quoted environmental policy, and it won’t take too much pressure for a series of formal written objections to be lodged every time Persimmon put up a new scheme.
We also learned about an access cut through for a new Morrisons Supermarket. Two houses will go to make way for the roadway. This project seems to have gone out to a wide scattergun formal consultation process, neatly ignoring those directly involved. To say the constituents present were fizzing is an understatement. Those standing for council on May 6th take note!
A very useful morning all round. Very well attended and hopefully a chance for everyone to air their views. We look forward to more of these throughout the year and our MP thanked everyone involved.
Profile:
Shailesh Lakhman Vara (born 4 September 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire in the 2005 general election, succeeding Brian Mawhinney as the Conservative MP for the seat. Shailesh Vara has previously been a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2006 he was appointed to the shadow ministerial post of Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. Following the 2010 General Election, he was appointed to the position of Assistant Whip in the coalition government.
Shailesh Lakhman Vara (born 4 September 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire in the 2005 general election, succeeding Brian Mawhinney as the Conservative MP for the seat. Shailesh Vara has previously been a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2006 he was appointed to the shadow ministerial post of Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. Following the 2010 General Election, he was appointed to the position of Assistant Whip in the coalition government.
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