Little Staughton News – September 2019

From the Chair (Garry Folbigg)

We enter September with the joys of the children going back to school and life starts to get back to a normal routine at least until Christmas. The summer appears to have gone by without any major issues for the Parish Council with the exception of some little darlings moving the bench around the playing field. The main topic seems to be the Go Skydive proposal on the airfield. We have received a few complaints regarding the issue.

The subject is a little difficult as the airfield itself is within the Cambridgeshire boundary and so as a Parish Council we have no more say than the individual complaining directly to Huntingdonshire Council themselves. We have been in touch with Huntingdonshire and currently they have received complaints but have not been approached by the operator. With their proposal they are not planning on building anything but utilising exiting buildings, the main issues as far as the village is concerned will be the noise, privacy and additional traffic. Go Skydive are planning on rescheduling the planned visit from last month and now it could be 19/20th September, again weather permitting. Again, I keep seeing reports of…

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