The South Cambs District Council’s Climate Change Working Group are holding an informal public meeting this Monday (10th December) to discuss how villages across South Cambridgeshire can tackle climate change. If anyone is interested in going please contact our district councillor Hazel Smith by email as hazel.smith@miltonvillage.org.uk or phone her on 860752.

The full text of the document we’ve seen from SCDC which explains the purpose of this meeting is as follows:

The Working Group are looking for your assistance in helping them to understand better how the District Council might be able to deliver more focused support across the villages of South Cambs in tackling climate change.

The Working Group members are very conscious that many Parish Councils and village-based groups are either already taking, or are looking to take, important steps in the direction of reducing carbon footprints and encouraging more sustainable living within their communities.

In order to move things forward the Working Group is looking to set up a very informal meeting to try and understand best how to really help make a difference. The Council already endeavours to do what it can to advance sustainable development through its role and statutory responsibilities – especially via waste and recycling, planning, environmental health, and sustainability. There are, however, almost certainly ways to add value to this work through linking up more closely with existing village/parish based activity and enthusiasm.

To do this with real meaning and substance, we need to understand just where any extra support is needed. This information needs to come directly from those already wanting and delivering change to a more sustainable future at the grassroots of village life.

To this end we’re inviting representatives from two willing Parish Councils (Bassingbourn and Little Shelford) and three established village groups who are already focusing on directly tackling sustainability/climate change/green issues (the Sustainable Girton Group, the Histon & Impington Climate Change Action Group and the Dry Drayton Green Group) to briefly share some of their experience over a cup of tea at a very informal meeting on Monday 10th December 4.30 – 5.45 pm at South Cambs Hall in Cambourne.

I really do hope that yourself and/or any other representatives from Milton will be able to come along.