Tonight I was at another meeting of the local villages’ Joint HCV Group.

The group had decided at its last meeting in February to delay meeting again until this evening, so that the new parish councils – including Sutton – were in place after the recent elections. The group will need to work with the new parish councils to achieve its aim of a multi-village traffic regulation order limiting heavy vehicles coming through our villages.

The group has agreed to send its hefty evidence document to the parish councils (including Earith, Bluntisham, Mepal, Hilton, Haddenham and Cottenham, as well as Sutton), and ask them to consider whether they want to be part of the campaign. We hope that by the end of July all the relevant parish councils will have included the issue on the agenda for a parish council meeting, and discussed whether or not they want to back the scheme.

Once we know whether or not we have the support of the parish councils it’s on to the next step in the campaign to persuade the county council to put a traffic order in place, and the police to support it.