January 2007 Archive
Huntingdonshire councillors are to take part in a workshop to learn more about key issues relating to Hinchingbrooke Hospital and proposed changes to the services that it delivers.
The format and colour of hackney carriage and private hire vehicle licence plates in Huntingdonshire are changing – with effect from 1 February 2007.
Huntingdonshire District Council is celebrating success after scooping three of the four 2006 Eastern Regional Awards from the Association for Town Centre Management at an event held at Hinchingbrooke Country Park.
Work will start soon on a Creative Enterprise Centre in St Neots, as part of the regeneration of the Longsands Quarter of St Neots.
Draft proposals for changes to parish boundaries and electoral arrangements in parts of Huntingdonshire have been drawn up by the district council.
Is this weather getting you down? Would you like a little sunshine in your life?
Grant aid application forms for the financial year which starts on 1 April 2007 are available from Huntingdonshire District Council.
Walking has been shown to have a huge benefit on physical health and wellbeing.
Are you interested in making bentwood furniture? Bentwood furniture is a type of rustic garden furniture made in the traditional American way.
Visitors and volunteers who attend Sunday work parties or enjoy Holt Island are invited to become Friends of Holt Island Nature Reserve.
Measures to stop postal voting fraud have come into force, with tougher checks and new offences for false applications.
Community development work in St Neots will be continuing, although Huntingdonshire District Council’s community development officer, Penny Litchfield, who has been based in the town has moved temporarily to Huntingdon while new premises are found.
Work is due to start later this month on a new footway at Views Common, Huntingdon, which will complete a pedestrian route from Stukeley Meadows to Hinchingbrooke Park road.
Do you live in a property that is difficult to insulate and keep warm? Perhaps your home has solid walls, a mansard roof or dormer ceilings?
Visitors to Huntingdonshire District Council’s internet site will now find it has an additional service. It can talk to them.
Voluntary and community groups are invited to meet a range of different organisations that give grants for local projects at a funding fair to be held in Huntingdon.
Huntingdonshire District Council has completed a housing land availability assessment which identifies and assesses sites for housing development within the District.
Views are being invited on two planning documents which Huntingdonshire District Council is updating. Each of them has an affect on future development in the district.
There is an opportunity to see an exceptional range of wintering birds and learn more about them from the experts, during a half day Bird Basics course on Sunday 14 January, 2007, from 10 am until 1 pm, at Paxton Pits nature reserve, near St Neots.
At Huntingdon Magistrates on 21 December 2006, a Huntingdon man was sentenced to six months imprisonment for each of three charges of benefit fraud.
Local residents are being urged to recycle their Christmas trees at Xtreme Recycling Event on Sat January 6 at Hinchingbrooke Country Park.