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Clerk's Piece
Pavilion Latest
Welcome to the Stapleford Parish Website.
As well as information about forthcoming events in Stapleford or planned by Stapleford organisations, the website aims to describe the many aspects and facilities of our village. It also includes details of public facilities not to be found in Stapleford, but available elsewhere.
News of corrections and additions are always welcome.
STAPLEFORD PARISH PLAN
Your chance to say how you would like Stapleford to be in years to come. What are your priorities? How similar or different are they to others in the village?
A steering committee has been formed, supported by grants from the Parish Council and Rural Action East, via an ITV community planning award. It will take on responsibility for the preparation of Stapleford's parish plan.
We want individuals, groups, organisations, and businesses to have a chance to make input to the plan. Look out for further information and developments in the Stapleford Messenger, on notice-boards, and on this website. There will be a short presentation to promote the development of a parish plan at the annual parish meeting on 7 May, when you will be able to find out more about what is involved and how you can contribute.
In the meantime, for further information please contact Geoff Hale, Chairman, Parish Plan Steering Committee, telephone no: 012223 842403, e-mail geoffrey.hale@ntlworld.com.
STAPLEFORD CHRONICLE
The second volume of the Stapleford Chronicle, covering the years 1939-97, has now been published. The first volume, covering 1900-1939, is still available.
Volume 2 can be ordered from Wendy Elsbury, 7 Anvil Close, Stapleford, Cambridge CB22 5SS for £7. An extra £1 will purchase the first volume in addition. Cheques should be made payable to "Stapleford Parish Council".
Parish Council reports now
appear on a new page on the
website. See the "Parish Council" link in the menu at the top.
PUBLIC SPIRITED VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT!!
Stapleford Parish Council has identified several sites in the village, which could benefit from some rigorous tidying up. We hope that after an overhaul, maintenance will be easier.The Slaughter House land and Clerk's Piece have already been tackled. Plans for work on further areas will be publicised here.
Affordable Housing
An application by Granta Housing Society Ltd. to build 14 houses and four flats on the site of derelict buildings at Hill Farm, Gog Magog Way, has been recommended by the Parish Council for approval - see under "Parish Council" for a report of the meeting. The decision of the Planning Authority is awaited.
In addition Hill Residential Ltd. has obtained permission to build four affordable dwellings among an estate of 13 dwellings, on the site of the former Greenhedges Special School in Bar Lane.
Clerk's Piece
Clerk's Piece lies on the north side of the River Granta in Stapleford, though before a boundary change in 1985 it lay in Sawston. Access is from a cyclepath to Sawston, which crosses the river and the line of the old railway to Haverhill (closed 1967). It was bought by the Parish Council in 1979 from the Trustees of the Clerk's Piece Charity, and consists mostly of rough amenity grassland. The grass is occasionally mown. It contains a number of semi-mature trees and is bounded by a hedgerow on the south and west sides. It lies in the floodplain of the river, and there is a gauging station for monitoring river levels beside a weir towards a corner of the site.
The Parish Council propose to manage the grass, the trees and the hedgerow to make it an area for quiet enjoyment. It has been suggested that boxes for birds and bats should be attached to larger trees, that grass and flower seed be sown, and that attractive aquatic plants, such as purple loosestrife, marsh marigold, water forget-me-not and yellow flag be planted on the river bank. Consideration will also be given, in consultation with the Environment Agency, to cutting a step in the river bank to allow safer and easier access to the water. Damper areas may be seeded with such plants as ragged robin, meadow sweet, hemp agrimony and fleabane.
Some pictures of the site and a sketch map of the area, compiled by Rob Mungovan of the South Cambs District Council, show how the area could be developed.
What do you think of the idea? Tell the village your views by sending e-mail to michael.farrar@virgin.net.
Pavilion latest
The proposed new pavilion
Click to see a larger image.
District Council "appalled"
The present pavilion was built in 1971, enclosing a toilet block which had been built in 1962. An officer of the District Council was recently appalled at its state.
It was decided in February 2002 that a new pavilion must be built. The Council decided in favour of a building on a fresh site and plans were prepared by our architect, Keith Warth, to build it in the far corner of the recreation ground, where it would least restrict the cricket pitch.
The new pavilion will contain substantially more space for changing rooms, toilets, a meeting room and a kitchen. It will include storage for Parish Council records as well as for the equipment stored in the present cricket shed, which could then be demolished. The skateboard ramp would have to be resited.
Detailed plans have been approved by the various sports clubs that use the ground. A planning application was submitted to District Council in January 2003 and has been approved.
Some of the site of the present pavilion can be used for much needed extra car parking space. Unfortunately several trees will have to be removed, but replacement trees will be planted as part of the project.
An estimate of the cost of the building has been obtained as a first step towards applying for grant funding. A quantity surveyor's estimate amounts to £350,000. Many grants are restricted to charities and the Parish Council would not therefore be eligible to apply. The District Council may, however, be prepared to give a substantial grant towards the cost.
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Diary
Stapleford Bird Club
8am, Saturday 4 July
Magog Down car park
All welcome
King Lear
8pm, Thursday 2 - Sunday 5 July
and Wednesday 8 - Saturday 11 July
Wandlebury Hill Fort
£11 - concessions £9
Advance booking 01223-511511
Open Gardens
2-6pm, Sunday 5 July
Variety of beautiful gardens
Tickets: £4, under 16 free
Programmes from local shops or 01223-843462
and, on the day, at Stapleford Church
in aid of Sunnyside Pre-School Playgroup
Parish Council
7.30pm, Wednesday 8 July
Johnson Hall
Public interventions at 7.45pm
Garden Party
Shelford & Stapleford Youth Initiative
2.30-5pm, Saturday 11 July
2 Bridge Lane, Little Shelford
Cream teas & cakes, music, games etc.
Tickets £5, children £2
Taming of the Shrew
7.30ppm, Friday 24 July
Wandlebury
Tickets 08700-600100 or 01223-842600
or at door
Picnics from 6pm.
Coffee Morning
Stapleford Chestnut Club
10am-noon, Tuesday 28 July
Johnson Hall
Bring-and-buy, nearly new, books etc.
50p entry
Visit to Villedômer
twinning partner in France
20-24 August
Stapleford Twinning Association
By air to Tours
Information: Mary Cooper 01223-842127
or Louise Graham 844778
Visit from Villedômer
to Stapleford
24-28 August
Stapleford Twinning Association
Information: Mary Cooper 01223-842127
or Louise Graham 844778
Village Quiz
Friends of St. Andrew's Church
7.30pm, Saturday 10 October 2009
Stapleford School hall
Teams of up to five persons
[advance notice]
Annual Parish Meeting
7.30pm, Thursday 29 April 2010
Community Lounge, Cox's Cose
Annual meeting of Stapleford electors
Parish Council Meetings
7.30pm 2nd Wednesday of every month, except August
Johnson Hall.
Agenda on noticeboards.
Open to the public.
Walking for health
10am, Thursday mornings
meet at Education Centre, Wandlebury
Walks last 30-60 minutes
No charge
Email Michael
Farrar <michael.farrar@virgin.net> to propose a listing |
