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Neighbourhood Watch is active in the village. Mr Patrick Stephens is the village's Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator.
You will have received the latest Knapwell Newsletter reporting the November Parish Meeting among other nuggets. The editor is Mr Patrick Stephens. Take your news along to him.
Knapwell's County Councillor is Cllr. Ms Mandy Smith
Knapwell's District Councillors are Cllr Nick Wright and Cllr Mark Howell
Knapwell is one of 21 villages between Brampton and Cambridge scheduled to benefit from a £4.5 scheme to calm rat-run traffic. The work in Knapwell was completed in the hot 2003 summer. Traffic IS calmer. There is a cost to the village, though. The village has lost some of its rural charm thanks to the proliferation of new street furniture (posts and reflectors and such paraphernalia). A degree of overkill, perhaps?
The Daleks (or wheelie bins) are here. They are not everyone's idea of an improvement - but they are here to stay, so .....! Let's hope we get used to them (as others seem to have done) and that the fortnightly collection does not leave households with a problem.
At the November 2003 Parish Meeting it was agreed that the March meeting is too early to finalise the accounts and that the July meeting would be too late to elect new officers. The logical move was to amalgamate the business of the March and July meetings in a May meeting. The Meeting agreed. The May meeting was successful. The accounts were approved and there were no changes of office. The November 2004 meeting raised the precept to £800 (see Parish Meeting page).
MIXED NEWS Emergency tree-surgery on the fallen tree in Church Lane cost £528.The Parish has only a small contingency fund for repairing the mower and for other such expenses. Cllr Shona Johnstone once again came to the rescue. Cambridgeshire County Council acknowledged that Church Lane was a public right of way and came up with half the cost. Cllr Johnstone shortly will cease to be Knapwell's councillor. She has supported the village well in practical ways and will be missed.
There is also some movement on the matter of discrete street lighting in Church Lane. Watch this space.
