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Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) are in the process of updating their riparian guidance document to make it more useful for those living next to a watercourse. As this document is aimed at residents and landowners, CCC wish to seek their views and get a better understanding of their awareness of riparian issues. CCC have therefore prepared a short survey (5 questions). This survey is to understand the communities awareness about living next to a watercourse (ditch, dyke, stream, river) or water body (lake, reservoir, pond) and gauge their support and suggestions for new guidance proposed as part of the Cambridgeshire Community Flood Action Programme.

Cambridgeshire’s Community Flood Resilience Programme is a one-year county council funded programme to increase the county’s resilience and ability to adapt to flooding through improving access to flood risk management information, improving data quality, and providing guidance on asset management and support for local groups to establish community flood plans.

The programme is intended to deliver the following outcomes:
• Communities can access flood risk information more easily
• Communities can report flooding easily, with efficient back-office data collation.
• Communities in Cambridgeshire have flood groups and flood plans to aid local resilience and ensure increased positive engagement with risk management authorities.
• Improve the county’s data on riparian owned drainage assets
• Riparian owners are more aware of their responsibilities and understand what maintenance of watercourses involves and who to ask for assistance.
• Riparian watercourses that were in poor condition during the Christmas floods are cleansed during 2021/22.

A link to the survey is here: https://forms.office.com/r/5HQbNqGtba

This survey will be open until 30th September.

In addition, they would be grateful of any photos communities may have of watercourses, to include in the guidance document. If anyone would like to submit photos, please email them to , and include the name they would like to be credited as.

Announcing the launch of their updated website

https://www.citizensadviceruralcambs.org.uk

Press release from Citizen’s Advice Rural Cambs:

“Since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have all become used to finding information and services on-line for ourselves. This is equally true regarding quality information that helps us sort out any problems we may have.

As part of our continual improvement programme, we have now invested in upgrading our website to make it even easier for people to find the quality information they need to help with their problems. The updated website went live on the 23^rd August.  It has a new user-friendly interface and contains much more up-to-date information about the myriad of issues that people may have to deal with.

It is organised around key topics / articles, and guides you through a number of steps to help you find the relevant information quickly.  In addition, the extensive powerful search capabilities work throughout the site. Information is grouped around the common problem areas of debt, benefits, work, housing, family / relationships, consumer and other.

We advise nearly 10,000 people every year with over 41,000 problems and a further 8,000 people use our SELF-HELP website. 95% of our clients would recommend us to a friend.

With our new upgraded website, we intend to help even more people find the information they need to improve their life situations.”

For free, independent and impartial advice and support you can contact Citizens Advice Rural Cambs: 

• Adviceline: 0808 278 7807

Monday to Friday 09:30 to 15:30

• Universal Credit Help to Claim line:   0800 1448444,  for anyone seeking to make a new claim for Universal Credit

• Webchat or Email via:  citizensadviceruralcambs.org.uk

• Information also available on their website at citizensadviceruralcambs.org.uk or at www.citizensadvice.org.uk

Hilton Parish Council is pleased to announce that it has co-opted a new Councillor.

Sarah and her husband moved to Fen Drayton in 2000 and then took the leap across the A14 to Hilton in 2009 when they bought a derelict property on Graveley Way. They spent 12 months renovating before moving in and have lived there ever since.

She started her career in the Health and Fitness industry managing corporate health clubs in London. She then stopped to raise her two children who are now teenagers. She was heavily involved in their primary school in Fen Drayton and was on the board of governors for several years with the last two years as Chair. She is now a project manager for a small development company.

She says “I am pleased to join the Parish Council to preserve the uniqueness of the village but to also bring about change where it is needed for the future.”