Toft 2020

Toft 2020
Parish Council in 2020
The following have been the Councillors during the year
Cllr Elaine Miles
Cllr Andy Tall
Cllr Luis Borrell
Cllr James Wrycroft
Cllr Kash Popat
Cllr Tricia Ellis-Evans (Deputy Chair)
Cllr Martin Yeadon (Chair)
Gail Stoehr is the Clerk and RFO.

Our District Councillor is Cllr Grenville Chamberlain
and County Councillor is Cllr Lina Nieto

The legislation regarding the running of PC meetings changed in March to allow PC’s to meet via Zoom.
There have been a number of significant planning applications considered this year.
A third attempt at getting planning approval for the land off Hardwick Road for 12 Self Build houses has been considered.
A proposal for an additional 45 houses at Bennell Farm was submitted although this looks as if it will be amended to 41 dwellings.
An application for a Co-Op store adjacent to Bennell Farm has also been applied for..
At the end of the year none of these applications have been determined.

The other major planning issue is the East West Railway. It has be decided that the Railway will run very close to Toft, somewhere between Comberton and Kingston in what has been designated Corridor E. There has been considerable efforts by several groups to change that proposal by proposing either running north via Northstowe into Cambridge North Station or to run closer to the M11.The next key point is when the possible routes are proposed. This is planned for early 2021.

Bennell Farm construction is coming on. There are no residents yet but several houses are nearing completion. It’s been named The Birdlings.