If you have any feedback about the Neighbourhood Plan please visit the Feedback Form on Google Docs.
The Neighbourhood Plan team will also be hosting a meeting to discuss any points on:
Saturday 20th September at 10.30
in Great Gidding Village Hall
For more information please email us on hamwicking@gmail.com or ring Paul Hargrave on 07775 711514.
If you are aware of anyone in the parish who cannot access the noticeboards or the community social media platforms, please contact the Parish Council so a printed copy can be made available for them. If you would prefer to receive a copy of the monthly newsletter via email, please contact the Parish Council.
Download the February edition of the Parish Council Newsletter
Bringing you the very finest in light musical entertainment, playing a toe-tapping selection of your favourite melodies from times gone by, as well as original tunes inspired by a bygone age.
Bring a chair, some ‘fizz’ and nibbles and enjoy an indoor picnic in this wonderful building on Midsummer evening.
Friday 21st June 2024
St Andrews Church, Steeple Gidding at 7.30pm
Tickets £10.00 pp from
ticketsource.co.uk/hamerton-village-hall or call 07900 112635 to reserve seats
ALL PROFIT SPLIT EQUALLY BETWEEN THE CHURCHES OF ST ANDREWS, STEEPLE GIDDING, ALL SAINTS, HAMERTON AND HAMERTON VILLAGE
There will be an online version and also a printed version of the surveys available. If you can, online would be our preferred way of completing the form as it reduces transcription errors.
NB. You will be asked to enter your unique 6 digit reference number found on the first page of paper version of your Residential Survey.
These surveys are currently being printed and will be delivered over the weekend of 29th/30th April.
Once you have received your paper version of the form with your unique reference number your will be able to access the 4 survey forms via these unique web links:
Business: bit.ly/3FUgpAZ
Great and Little Gidding: bit.ly/40z9Yer
Winwick: bit.ly/3LRVTVa
Hamerton and Steeple Gidding: bit.ly/42K2V4o
We would like all of the surveys completed by Monday 15th May. The results are a vital input into our Neighbourhood Plan. A proposed plan should be handed over to Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) for comments by the end of the year. Once agreed by HDC it will then be reviewed by an independent examiner before finally being adopted by HDC as part of their planning process.
Your help and support is greatly appreciated by the team. If you would like someone to visit and help fill out the survey, please ring Paul Hargrave on 07775 711514. If you have any questions, please contact the team on hamwicking@gmail.com
At Cambridgeshire County Council’s Children and Young People’s Committee Meeting held on 17th January 2023 a decision was made to commence a 30-day consultation on the proposed closure of the Primary School in Great Gidding.
Download the proposal for closure:
Agenda item 4 – Great Giddings Church of England Primary School.pdf
Appendix 1 – Current financial forecast.pdf
As part of this consultation process, the Local Authority have committed to consult with the Parish Council and we as members of the Parish Council wish to ensure we are representing the views of our community. To facilitate this process and provide opportunity for members of the community to engage, Great & Little Gidding Parish Council will be hosting a meeting on Thursday 9thFebruary in Great Gidding Village Hall at 7.45pm. In attendance will be representatives from Cambridgeshire County Council’s Education Department as well as members of Great and Little Gidding Parish Council. In addition, our local MP, County and District Councillors have been invited to attend, as have representatives of each of the Parish Councils/Parish Meetings in the school’s catchment area.
We are keen to ensure that all interested parties have the opportunity to present their viewpoint.
Date of the meeting: Thursday 9th February 2023
Time: To commence at 7.45pm
Venue: Great Gidding Village Hall
(PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE EARLIER than 7.30PM as there is a prior booking in the Village Hall).
Questions, comments and observations should be submitted to the Parish Clerk by 5.00pm on Friday 3rd February, these will be given priority at the meeting (we cannot guarantee that any questions/comments/observations received after that deadline will be heard at the meeting)
Chairman: Paul Hodson
Clerk: Julie Trolove, Great and Little Gidding Parish Council, The Village Hall, Main Street, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, Cambs PE28 5NU
TEL: 01832 293 068 (answermachine only)
EMAIL: ggparishcouncil@outlook.com
Julie Trolove, Clerk to Great & Little Gidding Parish Council
18th January 2023
Giddings Christmas cards are now on sale in the Village Shop and include three beautiful aerial views of the Giddings in winter, four of St Michael’s Church beautiful stained glass windows, five magical scenes of Great Gidding in the snow and three warm and glowing Giddings church interiors.
There are 4 different sets of cards:
Sold as packs or as individual cards. Beautifully printed and gloss laminated, quality cards with envelopes. Blank inside.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
As part of a self-intiated project (and to bump us up Google rankings!) we are making videos of various aspects of the Giddings. To start with here are videos of St Michael’s Church in Great Gidding, St John’s Church in Little Gidding and St Andrew’s Church in Steeple Gidding. If any one has any ideas or suggestions of other subjects suitable for videoing and related to the Giddings (keep it clean!) please email Paul.
Paul Crank