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Playground temporary closure

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Recreation Ground Temporary Closure for 3 weeks

As you may already be aware, the Parish Council is refurbishing the Recreation Ground, and replacing two pieces of the older wooden play equipment, which are showing signs of age.

This work had been planned to commence in December, but an opportunity has arisen for the work to be done before the potential bad weather later in the year, so the work will start on Monday 9 October.

The contractors will be working on site for approximately 3 weeks, daily from 8.00am through to 4.30pm.  During this time the Recreation Ground will be closed to the public for safety reasons.  Whilst we appreciate that closing the playground during half-term is not ideal, we hope that you will understand the reasons for doing this work at this time.

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Update on Making Connections

The Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) Executive Board yesterday (Thursday 28 September) decided to stop the further development of the Sustainable Travel Zone (STZ) proposals as part of the Making Connections scheme.

The members discussed the results of last year’s consultation, the evidence gathered through the 24,000 responses, the amended proposals from officers and the feedback from the GCP Joint Assembly.

They collectively decided that while the aims of Making Connections to make travelling in and around Cambridge simpler and faster by saving time and money, would have eased congestion, and offered better, fairer, and greener travel choices, the STZ is not able to progress to Full Business Case due to a lack of political consensus.

Officers will now focus on other areas of the City Access programme looking at issues such as resident parking, road hierarchy and freight consolidation. This is in addition to the other infrastructure projects which include: 150km of Greenways, innovative busway schemes from Waterbeach to Cambridge and Cambourne to Cambridge as well as the significant improvements to Milton Road and Newmarket Road.