Thank you to everyone who supported me in the district council elections on Thursday 2 May. I’m delighted to be elected as a new East Cambs district councillor to serve alongside district and county councillor Lorna Dupré in Sutton ward. The result was: Lorna Dupré (Lib Dem) 1199Mark Inskip (Lib Dem) 925Mike Bradley (Con) 536Beth […]

On Thursday 2 May 2019 everyone in Sutton Parish has the opportunity to vote in the referendum on the Sutton Neighbourhood Plan. This is an important planning document enabling villagers to determine how their village develops, determining where and what kind of development should be allowed, the infrastructure to support it and protecting valuable historic […]

At Sutton’s Parish Council meeting this week we were disappointed to learn that our bid to the County Council to fund a vehicle activated speed sign had been rejected. Each year the County Council invites Parish Councils to submit bids for Local Highways Initiatives and this year Sutton Parish Council bid for a mobile vehicle […]

Neighbourhood Plans in East Cambridgeshire are more important than ever following the withdrawal of the Submitted East Cambridgeshire Local Plan by the district council. Earlier this week the Strategic Planning Manager at the district council sent a briefing paper to Parish Councils explaining the importance of Neighbourhood Plans in the current situation. The district council […]

As reported at the end of November 2018, Sutton Parish Council submitted the village’s Neighbourhood Plan to East Cambridgeshire District for Independent Examination. The district council the organised a formal consultation which ran for seven weeks and concluded on 17 January 2019. They have now published the responses they received on their website at https://www.eastcambs.gov.uk/local-development-framework/sutton-neighbourhood-plan. The […]

Sutton Parish Council’s have been working with County Council highways officers on new proposals to slow traffic and to deter rat-running along the High Street and Church Lane. This follows the safety audit which concluded that the priority at the High Street and The Brook junction could not be altered. The new plan would introduce […]

Tuesday 27 November marked an important milestone for Sutton’s Neighbourhood Plan. The Parish Council approved the plan to be submitted to Independent Examination. The following day the plan was formally submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council. You can find all the submission documents online at https://www.eastcambs.gov.uk/local-development-framework/sutton-neighbourhood-plan. Earlier this year in July the first completed version of […]

Last year the Parish Council submitted a bid for money to slow traffic and prevent rat-running along Church Lane and the eastern end of the High Street in Sutton. The bid to the County Council was successful and funds were awarded. A key part of the original proposal was to change the priority of traffic […]

I thought it would be useful to provide a little background to what election campaign teams do on Polling Day given the recent county council by-election in Sutton. The campaign teams want to encourage as many people as possible to vote. Turn out in local elections is traditionally low and even in General Elections is only around 60% […]

Sutton Parish Council is preparing its budget for the next financial year (1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017). At the same time as agreeing budget, the council also agrees the Precept. This is the amount of money to be raised through the Council Tax to fund the Parish Council. Your Council Tax doesn’t just […]