The Parish Council needs a new Assistant Clerk.  The number of Parish Councillors could be increased from 9 to 11. Several Stapleford women say they have been targeted by phone scammers (external link) The private purchase of the Tree pub by the Tree campaign group is being mediated by the District Council. Sign up for the Stapleford, Cambridge e-newsletter A Community Warden scheme is being considered for Stapleford. But more people are needed to make the scheme viable.  A new 20 MPH zone is being introduced in parts of Stapleford. See a map of the Stapleford roads affected. Almost 150 acres of agricultural land with "long-term development potential" is on sale at Shelford Bottom for £2m. There are a significant number of places in the village where hedges and shrubs make footpaths very narrow and forcing walkers into the road. The Tree pub has been saved from demolition. (External link). The planning application to replace it with two homes and a new pub in Stapleford near Cambridge has been rejected. An appeal by the owner to reverse the decision by South Cambridgeshire Council has been dismissed. South Cambridgeshire Council is now pursuing a Compulsory Purchase Order. There are proposals for new homes in London Road. Shelford Medical Practice has merged with the Granta Practice. Shelford and Stapleford Rainbows need a new leader. On 9th July there was an interrupted daytime break-in on Joscelynes. A group of men in a truck with "tree services" markings were loitering on the road, while one of them broke into the back garden of a house and was seen peering into the windows. They were accosted by a neighbour and drove off. The police advised that local residents be made aware. The passenger window of a car parked in a layby near to the Gog Magog farm shop was smashed and a bag was stolen on June 29 between 8.30pm and 9pm. The Your Hospice Lottery for the Arthur Rank hospice may soon have helped raise £1 million for the charity. A house in London Road, Stapleford was broken into on May 25. The revised 7A bus service route and timetable started on July 30th with changes in Stapleford. The Liberal Democrats won the two District Council seats in the elections on May 3. The future of the Rose and the Three Horseshoes was among the actions and decisions at the March Parish Council meeting.  Council Chairman Nigel Pett came second in the Parish Councillor section of the South Cambridgeshire's annual community awards As part of plans to improve journeys times and congestion along the A1307 and A1301, the Greater Cambridge Partnership is looking to hear the views of residents in Shelford and Stapleford . One option consists of a new segregated Mass Rapid Transit Route from the A11 via Sawston, Stapleford and Great Shelford to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Sir David Attenborough and Professor Stephen Hawking are two of the people featuring in a new showreel video by Stapleford company OH! Films. Stapleford's school became an academy in 2018. Babraham Research Campus is expanding. Sign up for the free Stapleford Cambridge e-newsletter A 29 acre development in Stapleford and Great Shelford, with 180 new homes and a "care village", is being offered online by an Essex developer. A scientist from Stapleford, Cambridge has been made a Companion of Honour, alongside J K Rowling and Sir Paul McCartney, “for services to science and society" in the Queen's birthday honours. Some changes have been announced to Stapleford's Citi 7 bus service. Stapleford park's play area is the subject of a new video. Read more about the Stapleford Park facilities here. A fourth local estate agents is about to start selling houses in Stapleford, Cambridge. Redmayne Arnold Harris is opening in Woollards Lane, Great Shelford in summer 2017. The four local estate agents with houses for sale in Stapleford, Cambridge are;  Stapleford Cambridge now has its own Facebook page. Sunnyside pre-school playgroup in Stapleford near Cambridge has closed. Did you know that Arthur Rank Hospice’s Bistro is open to the general public? The Stapleford and Shelford Neighbourhood Plan now has its own website. Have you visited our sister websites? Little Shelford Online Stapleford is 4 miles from Cambridge. Around 1900 people now live in the village which lies between Great Shelford and Sawston. The village has a Community Primary School, a church hall, the Johnson Hall, St Andrew’s Church, the Jubilee Pavilion and two Public Houses, The Three Horseshoes, and The Rose. There is also a campaign to re-open The Tree pub. The pavilion, on the Stapleford Park or recreation ground, was renovated in 2012 and re-named the Jubilee Pavilion to mark the diamond jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Stapleford is twinned with Villedomer in the Loire Valley, France. Wandlebury, with the remains of a 5th Century BC Iron Age Hill Fort,110 acres of woods and chalk grassland, and 8 miles of footpaths, is in the north-east corner of Stapleford. The Magog Down is an area for restoration, conservation and informal recreation on the Gog Magog Hills off the A1307 road to Linton and on Haverhill Road, Stapleford. Famous people from Stapleford Cambridge include Sir John Sulston, Robert Huff and Thomas Blossom. Privacy statement Stapleford Parish Council is committed to maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information relating to visitors to its website. By accessing the Parish Council website you consent to the processing by the Parish Council and its agents of any personal information given by you. Such processing may occur for any of the following reasons: i) keeping our records up to date; ii) learning more about you in order to develop, improve and manage the services we can offer you; iii) keeping you informed of any Parish Council activities or services by post, fax, email and telephone; iv) protecting both your and the Parish Council's interests. Users of this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. If you do not wish to be kept informed by Stapleford Parish Council of information that we think might be of interest to you please let us know by contacting us. |  Emma and Ross   A major new extension has opened at the Stapleford Granary.   Stapleford resident Shaun Levitt shared provided this photo of aircraft over Stapleford in 1944 to the Stapleford History website. The planes are B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. Below you can see Stapleford as it was before the housing development of the 1950s and 60s. You can also see the tank trap running diagonally across Haverhill Road and up towards Hinton Way.   Stapleford photographer Keith Taylor exhibited his work (featured above) as part of the Cambridge Open Studios in July. The Gogs farm shop has won three great taste awards (external link) Sign up for the free e-newsletter for Stapleford, Cambridge   This is an old postcard of Church Street Stapleford- see other old photos of Stapleford, Cambridge. Stapleford Cambridge now has its own Facebook page. Sign up for the free e-newsletter for Stapleford near Cambridge  Rev Simon Taylor became the Associate Parish Priest at St Andrews in Stapleford Cambridge in 2015. 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