Are you interested in a paid role developing your administration skills and helping your community? Shudy Camps Parish Council needs to recruit a new Parish Clerk. This is a part time role, 20 hours per calendar month. Salary to be negotiated in line with the payscales published by The National Joint Council for Local Government Services. Responsibilities include: Providing the…
A1307 Update, 2017-11-28
The Parish Council meeting on 2017-11-27 included an item on the A1307 where the 3 proposals by the Greater Cambridge Partnership, as well as the North and South Dual Carriageway Proposals alongside the A1307 by the Suffolk A1307 Strategy Board were discussed. Residents can find additional information and copies of the materials presented, as well as additional material found by…
Parish Council Meeting – 7:30pm, Mon, 27 Nov. 2017
The next bimonthly meeting of the parish council will be at the Village Hall on Monday 22nd November 2017 starting at 7:30pm. The agenda can be found here and additional information on the A1307 topic here
Parish Council Planning Meeting – 8pm, Monday, 11 Sept, St Mary’s Church, West Wickham
Open to all residents to discuss Planning Application S/2868/17/OL. Application for outline planning permission with all matters reserved for the erection of four dwellings (2 x Market Housing and 2 x Affordable Housing) – Land west of 13 Burton End, West Wickham.
July is SCAM awareness month
July is scams awareness month. Find out about all kinds of scams, how they operate and how to protect yourself. https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/campaigns/current_campaigns/scams-awareness-month/
Cabinet 5 (Burton End) open for Superfast Broadband
The West Wratting 5 cabinet is now open for superfast broadband orders (FTTC). Residents connected to this cabinet should now be able to upgrade with their chosen Internet Service Provider (ISP). To check if you are really connected, please go to https://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/when-can-i-get-fibre.aspx and enter your telephone number – no space. If the page does not show your number as “Superfast Accepting…
Superfast Broadband Update, 18th March
Cabinet 5 BT-OpenReach still have not commissioned nor opened cabinet 5 at Burton End for Superfast broadband orders and have been unresponsive to repeated requests for updated information by both Connecting Cambridgeshire and our MP’s office. After repeated delays, it was due to be opened “early March” for Superfast orders and is still due to be open imminently. FTTP / Cabinet 1…
Residents who have ordered FTTP Superfast Upgrades are having their ISPs cancel installations or activations.
These all appear to be from the cabinet designated West Wratting 1 and frankly has become another nightmare. ISPs and contract engineers on site are reporting missing fibre segments and outstanding engineering work and residents are reporting missed activation dates or cancelled installations – same as we had with the West Wratting 7 cabinet. Some numbers listed as having FTTP…
Superfast Upgrades – Cabinet 7 issues reported as resolved
As many residents will appreciate, we had issues when Cabinet 7 went live in January. This was due to a BT-OpenReach half-job which they thought they could get away with by assuming less than 40% take up of SuperFast broadband in West Wickham. According to BT-OpenReach, these issues have now all been resolved, so those waiting for the dust to…
Common Road cabinet accepting FTTP orders
The DSL checker, https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/, is showing up some numbers in Burton End as available for FTTP orders from West Wratting Cabinet 1 (on the Common Road). If you would prefer FTTP (if given a choice) and you see a small green box mounted on a telephone pole opposite, confirm with the DSL checker that you are live and place your…