The Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital in Impington is currently recruiting for 11 roles including these.
Ward Hospitality Assistant to assist the catering team in providing care to patients who are on the wards, assisting them with menu options, general tidying and ensuring refreshments are regular. This is a Full-Time and permanent opportunity; with shift patterns as 5 out of 7 days per week between the hours of 6am and 7pm, which will include 2 weekends per month on average. Apply Before 06/10/2021
Surgical Ward Staff Nurse to be responsible for delivering pre and post-operative care to the range of surgical specialities working on a surgical ward as part of our nursing team. Apply Before 06/10/2021
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Hain Daniels who make sweet spreads and jellies including Hartley’s jams, Gale’s honey, Rose’s marmalades and Sun-Pat peanut butter in Histon are looking for 10 roles including this new one.
Senior Brand Manager – Plant Based to be responsible for developing and implementing the growth strategy for Linda McCartney’s plant based brand. This role will be responsible for leading, developing and delivering a strategy that drives share, penetration and brand growth for the identified market and as such puts the candidate in the lead seat in a highly visible segment of the wider Hain Daniels Group. The role is responsible for a marketing investment budget c. £1-2m and will lead the UK agency team including media and PR agencies. This will mean you will be responsible for developing, planning and executing the media plan for the product portfolio.
The recent Bank Holiday Fun Day at Histon Smokehouse saw ten year old Cece Southgate launch Cece’s Accessories, her personally designed range of jewellery, and at the same time raise hundreds of pounds for charity. Amanda Borrill caught up with Cece to hear how it all began.
The middle child between her two brothers Barnaby and Rex, ten year old Cece has lived in Histon since she was just four months old. A student at Histon and Impington Junior School (now Brook Primary) she heads this autumn into her final year there. Creative and artistic, it seems Cece’s passion for making has always been a big part of her life and the opportunity to showcase her work and help her favourite charity, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), has brought her great joy. Cece takes up the story:
“When I was younger, I wanted to be an inventor and I’ve always had my own tools and liked taking things apart and putting things back together. I also love any kind of art and crafts. One day this year, I was off school sick and I decided to start making some beaded bracelets which I sold to some friends and family. Then, from doing that, I realised that I could make other things. My grandparents sent me some silver chain and I got some cute sweetie charms, clip-on backs and a whole jewellery making kit with earring hooks, jump hoops and lobster clasps for Christmas.
“I started making necklaces, bracelets and clip-on earrings for fun. Then, a few months ago, I started looking in charity shops for charm jewellery in good condition that I could take apart and make into new pieces of jewellery. I especially love to find things I can turn into something else that someone can wear – it gives them a whole new life. I steal a lot of my mum’s old jewellery and both my aunties have said they’ll send me some as well. It feels good to recycle as it’s better for the environment. Lots of my friends, and my mum’s friends, liked my accessories and that’s where the idea for having a stall came from!’
Supporting the Independents
For several months now, community spirited Simon Morrice of Histon Smokehouse has been hosting a variety of independent pop ups behind the Smokehouse. A keen supporter of fellow independents, when approached by enthusiastic young entrepreneur Cece about a stall at the planned Bank Holiday event, he not only warmly welcomed her in but offered to donate the usual stall fee to a charity of her choice. Simon told me: “Cece was an inspiration at the Fun Day – her business acumen and determination to succeed is phenomenal. She helped raise several hundred £s for EACH. Her parents must be very proud”.
I visited Cece and her mum at the stall on Sunday and was surrounded by others all equally keen to browse her colourful and unique creations. Totally unphased by the many visitors to her stall, Cece quickly and very capably tailored three charms into different length necklaces for my own teenage daughter and it was obvious this young girl is one to watch.
Cece at work. Photo Ali Southgate. Permissions given.
I asked Cece what she enjoyed most about this creative hobby:
“I’m lucky that I get to share my mum’s garden office. I have a making desk in there with all my tools and bits and bobs and I can get really messy and creative (though she does make me tidy it up a lot too!). I really enjoy the whole process of making jewellery, looking at an old piece and seeing which bits will make a nice charm on a new chain, or beads for a pair of earrings and I find it really easy and satisfying to take things apart and make something pretty. I have spent most of this summer making jewellery in there!”
Big Ambitions
Having taken this one small step into the world of business, Cece has no intention of stopping there and talks are underway for bigger steps in the months ahead:
“I’d love to keep selling my jewellery to friends and at the Smokehouse and would love to have a jewellery business when I’m older too. When I first asked about running a stall at the Smokehouse and said that I would donate a portion of the profits to charity, I also asked Simon if there could be a Kids Day, maybe in half term where all the stalls are run by local children who make their own stuff. He said it was a great idea and we are currently having discussions so watch this space! It would be so much fun to sell alongside other kids too!’
Cece’s Accessories in full swing at Histon Smokehouse. Photo Ali Southgate.
Going on to sum up what she enjoyed most about her her experience at the Fun Day, Cece enthused:
“I had so much fun running my own stall at the Smokehouse. It was hard work as it was very busy – I took a book but didn’t have any time to read it! I loved knowing that every sale was making money for EACH. Alan and Zoe who ran the Scalextric stand also kindly donated their profits and Smokehouse owner Simon donated all stall fees from the entire event! We raised £354 for EACH, and I can’t wait to present them with their cheque!
“I really loved helping people find what they were looking for, making things on the spot for people was fun too as I took my making trolley with all my tools and spare materials. And I really loved the free milkshake from Smokehouse that I got in the afternoon!”
Cece’s Accessories is on Instagram. You can follow her here.
Smokehouse stalls run every week Fridays – Sunday. More information can be found on their website or Facebook. To book a stall, email smokestalls@gmail.com
A new charity has started work to enable the vision for securing this valuable community space to become a reality – and local residents can get involved.
The launch last week of a new charity in the village has opened the door for a fundraising campaign that will secure the 11-acre Croft Close Set Aside and 4.5-acre Long Meadow land for the community, as a haven for wildlife and a green space where people can experience, learn about and enjoy nature.
The new charity, Histon & Impington Green Spaces, has now been registered with the Charity Commission and its six trustees – three nominated by the Parish Council and three by the community – will become the formal custodians of the land when fundraising is completed. They are tasked with ensuring it always remains true to the original vision of conserving nature and heritage on the sites, while enabling people to enjoy these much-loved places.
Friends
Villagers have been using the Abbey Fields land – part of the Abbey Farm estate – for centuries. Earlier this year it was bought by the Jenking family, with a view to taking it off the market and giving local people the time to raise the money needed to keep it out of the hands of property developers.
A new Friends organisation will elect a committee that will manage the land, lead on the fundraising and report to the charity trustees. They will be ensuring that Abbey Fields are well-conserved and managed spaces; providing regular information on the animals, trees, and plants; providing volunteering and educational opportunities; and linking with other community groups to help protect and improve green open spaces generally. They will also be canvassing the views of local people and site users and involving them in planning, decision-making and management.
Some volunteers have already set to work, with the Site Management Action Group meeting weekly and path clearing being very active. More are needed to support the work including the website, publicity and communication, administration and fundraising.
Join in!
The charity trustees are encouraging everyone who wants to support the project to get involved. The first meeting of the Friends Group will be next week on Thursday 9th September at 7.30pm at Histon Baptist Church and also live on Zoom. 80 people can attend in person, with normal Covid-19 precautions in place. Anyone can register for free tickets for the live meeting and Zoom attendees will be able to pick up the link on the Abbey Fields website.
As well as a short review of progress, the meeting will hear a presentation of the extraordinary wildlife on our doorstep. There will be information about the Friends group, including a new young Ambassador group, and about elections to the Friends Steering Committee.
All 23 sites put forward by land owners for potential residential and business development in Histon & Impington have been rejected by Greater Cambridge planners in their first draft proposals for the region’s Local Plan, including ambitions for Cambridge Science Park to be extended into the village.
Trinity College proposals for a 400-acre Research and Development campus in Green Belt land south of Milton Road, Impington, are among those that would not get the go-ahead if the draft proposals are finalised. Among a range of objections, planners found the development “would have a significant adverse impact to the wide and local landscape character views and visual amenity.” It would, they said, be “a significant encroachment in the landscape”, including “permanent removal of agricultural open fields and an urbanisation of rural countryside.” They also concluded there is “no capacity for growth” of traffic relating to the site, and that if any plans were to be approved, they would “need to ensure no net increase in vehicles trips on the Strategic Road Network.” Nonetheless Trinity College has a 20-year option on the land and is thought likely to appeal any planning constraints that arise.
Former Infant School playing field on New School Road – not available for housing development.
Planners have also turned down sites suggested by Chivers off Milton Road and all the sites proposed by Cambridgeshire County Council, including the land at Buxhall Farm adjacent to Park Primary School and the Infants’ School, playing field and Early Years Centre in New School Road. Other sites rejected include land around Cambridge Road, Clay Close Lane, Impington Lane, Woodcock Close, Cottenham Road, Park Lane and Croft Close.
The proposals will now be considered by Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District councillors through their respective committee processes. A final list of sites will be put out for public consultation at the beginning of November. Residents’ involvement in the process will be vital to ensuring that the interests of the village are respected and unwanted development sites don’t creep back into the Local Plan at a later stage.
Wider impact
The Local Plan will determine where new homes and jobs in the region will be developed to 2041 and beyond. Almost 900 potential sites were suggested by developers, landowners and planners, but after testing them against criteria including flood risk, transport, biodiversity and heritage impacts, only 19 have been chosen.
The proposals are rooted in extensive public consultation carried out in early 2020, when respondents overwhelmingly said that climate change was the top priority for the plan. As a result, the proposed sites are those that planners believe are most likely to minimise carbon emissions, maximise biodiversity and enable green space improvements, while achieving central government-imposed goals for growth in the region.
The sites proposed for all new homes and jobs in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire are close to high quality public transport and within walking and cycling distance of local destinations and services, to minimise future car use and set “a clear path to a net zero carbon future”. But they come with a clear warning to central government that the scale of new building will depend on urgently increasing the area’s future water supply
Although most new sites have been suggested in and around Cambridge, the new towns of Northstowe, Cambourne and Waterbeach would also continue to be developed. One of the objectives of the Local Plan is to protect the rural character of the villages, and only 4% of homes – 384 in total over the next 20 years – would be on sites in rural areas.
Only 4 sites would build on Green Belt land – including an extension to the biomedical campus around Addenbrooke’s hospital. 40% of the homes built on sites which provide 10 homes or more would be social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership or discounted market sale properties.
Concerns
Current development sites already underway in the region will deliver around 1,770 new homes per year up to 2041, including the new housing at Darwin Green, across the A14 from Impington. On top of this, the Local Plan needs to allocate sites for another 550 homes a year in order for housing to keep pace with the increase in jobs in the area.
Although the scale of development proposals for the region is daunting – and the draft Plan certainly won’t be welcome by all – there could be serious consequences if communities and Councils don’t accept it.
The increase in local jobs has outstripped the amount of housing being built and that housing has become even less affordable, leading to increasing commuting. Under national planning rules, Local Plans need to demonstrate that they will meet local needs for housing. If they don’t, then unwanted speculative development may have to be permitted in places that damage the environment and disturb communities.
Cllr Dr. Tumi Hawkins, Lead Member for Planning at South Cambridgeshire District Council, explained: “The government requires us to meet the number of new homes that the evidence is showing us are needed. If we do not, the plan may not be signed off by the government’s planning inspectors, and we may end up having to accept developers’ proposals for homes in locations that could harm the environment. And without planning for homes where and when they are needed, we will see increases in house prices, rent and pollution as people will have to travel further. These proposals aim to achieve a greener way of living.”
The Greater Cambridge Local Plan is being developed by the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service, a partnership between Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils. The proposed sites are available to view here.
Planners’ assessments of the development sites put forward in Histon (from p184) & Impington (from p278) can be found here.
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