This is the seventh and last in a series of posts about the ‘carbon footprint’ of the various parishes in the Sutton division. It uses https://impact-tool.org.uk/ which is a parish-level carbon emission estimator. This gives parishes and small communities usable data on their carbon emissions – the amount of carbon (or equivalent gases like methane) produced by our activities.

The https://impact-tool.org.uk/ estimator shows carbon emissions in two ways.

• Territorial emissions are those directly produced by the parish – its buildings, transport, land, and other amenities.
• Consumption emissions include the carbon from the things we buy and use which are brought into the parish from elsewhere.

The website also shows carbon emissions for each of those two options in total, and also per household. You can also compare parishes with other parishes in the area, with the district council average, and with the national average.

So, Witchford, which generates just over two per cent of East Cambridgeshire’s total carbon emissions. Per person, that’s 21.7 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year – below the East Cambridgeshire average of 25.6. Like Mepal, Wentworth and East Cambridgeshire as a whole, its largest single source of emissions is road transport, but still below the district average. Housing is the second largest contributor, with agriculture and land use featuring less prominently than in the division’s more rural and less populated parishes.

What about consumption – emissions including all the things we buy and use, like food, clothing, heating and transport? That’s 19.6 tonnes per person per year in Witchford, which is higher than the East Cambridgeshire average. Unlike the district average, housing is in fourth place, while consumption of goods and services, travel, and food and diet are higher.

For more information about these calculations and how they work, visit https://impact-tool.org.uk/using-the-tool

This is the sixth in a series of posts about the ‘carbon footprint’ of the various parishes in the Sutton division. It uses https://impact-tool.org.uk/ which is a parish-level carbon emission estimator. This gives parishes and small communities usable data on their carbon emissions – the amount of carbon (or equivalent gases like methane) produced by our activities.

The https://impact-tool.org.uk/ estimator shows carbon emissions in two ways.

• Territorial emissions are those directly produced by the parish – its buildings, transport, land, and other amenities.
• Consumption emissions include the carbon from the things we buy and use which are brought into the parish from elsewhere.

The website also shows carbon emissions for each of those two options in total, and also per household. You can also compare parishes with other parishes in the area, with the district council average, and with the national average.

So, Witcham, which generates just over one per cent of East Cambridgeshire’s total carbon emissions. Per person, that’s 50.1 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year – just under double the East Cambridgeshire average of 25.6. Unlike Coveney and Downham, but like East Cambridgeshire as a whole, its largest single source of emissions is road transport, at more than twice the district average. Land use is more than three times the East Cambridgeshire average, agriculture more than twice, and housing is somewhat higher too.

What about consumption – emissions including all the things we buy and use, like food, clothing, heating and transport? That’s 22.1 tonnes per person per year in Witcham. The parish scores higher than the East Cambridgeshire average for every item in the list below other than waste, for which it’s just fractionally above average.

For more information about these calculations and how they work, visit https://impact-tool.org.uk/using-the-tool

This is the fifth in a series of posts about the ‘carbon footprint’ of the various parishes in the Sutton division. It uses https://impact-tool.org.uk/ which is a parish-level carbon emission estimator. This gives parishes and small communities usable data on their carbon emissions – the amount of carbon (or equivalent gases like methane) produced by our activities.

The https://impact-tool.org.uk/ estimator shows carbon emissions in two ways.

• Territorial emissions are those directly produced by the parish – its buildings, transport, land, and other amenities.
• Consumption emissions include the carbon from the things we buy and use which are brought into the parish from elsewhere.

The website also shows carbon emissions for each of those two options in total, and also per household. You can also compare parishes with other parishes in the area, with the district council average, and with the national average.

So, Wentworth, one of the smallest villages in the Sutton division which generates just 0.68 per cent of East Cambridgeshire’s total carbon emissions. But per person, it packs a punch at 82.1 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year – more than three times higher than the East Cambridgeshire average of 25.6. Like Mepal, its largest single source of emissions is road transport, at nearly five times the per person average for East Cambridgeshire. Land use agriculture, industrial and commercial are also considerably higher.

What about consumption – emissions including all the things we buy and use, like food, clothing, heating and transport? That’s 21.8 tonnes per person per year in Wentworth, above the East Cambridgeshire average of 18.4. Every item on the list below is somewhat above the district average, other than waste which is marginally less.

For more information about these calculations and how they work, visit https://impact-tool.org.uk/using-the-tool

This is the fourth in a series of posts about the ‘carbon footprint’ of the various parishes in the Sutton division. It uses https://impact-tool.org.uk/ which is a parish-level carbon emission estimator. This gives parishes and small communities usable data on their carbon emissions – the amount of carbon (or equivalent gases like methane) produced by our activities.

The https://impact-tool.org.uk/ estimator shows carbon emissions in two ways.

• Territorial emissions are those directly produced by the parish – its buildings, transport, land, and other amenities.
• Consumption emissions include the carbon from the things we buy and use which are brought into the parish from elsewhere.

The website also shows carbon emissions for each of those two options in total, and also per household. You can also compare parishes with other parishes in the area, with the district council average, and with the national average.

So, Sutton, which generates just over three per cent of East Cambridgeshire’s total carbon emissions. Per person, that’s 17.1 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year – considerably less than the East Cambridgeshire average of 25.6. Like Coveney and Downham, its largest single source of emissions is land related, due to its farming hinterland. Road transport is less than half the East Cambridgeshire average.

What about consumption – emissions including all the things we buy and use, like food, clothing, heating and transport? That’s 18.4 tonnes per person per year in Sutton, exactly the East Cambridgeshire average. The travel impact of Sutton’s activities is slightly more than the district average, and the housing impact slightly less.

For more information about these calculations and how they work, visit https://impact-tool.org.uk/using-the-tool

This is the third in a series of posts about the ‘carbon footprint’ of the various parishes in the Sutton division. It uses https://impact-tool.org.uk/ which is a parish-level carbon emission estimator. This gives parishes and small communities usable data on their carbon emissions – the amount of carbon (or equivalent gases like methane) produced by our activities.

The https://impact-tool.org.uk/ estimator shows carbon emissions in two ways.

• Territorial emissions are those directly produced by the parish – its buildings, transport, land, and other amenities.
• Consumption emissions include the carbon from the things we buy and use which are brought into the parish from elsewhere.

The website also shows carbon emissions for each of those two options in total, and also per household. You can also compare parishes with other parishes in the area, with the district council average, and with the national average.

So, Mepal, which generates just over one per cent of East Cambridgeshire’s total carbon emissions. Per person, that’s 25.3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year – almost spot on the East Cambridgeshire average of 25.6. Unlike Coveney and Downham, but like East Cambridgeshire as a whole, its largest single source of emissions is road transport, as a result of the A142 running through it.

What about consumption – emissions including all the things we buy and use, like food, clothing, heating and transport? That’s 16.9 tonnes per person per year in Mepal. It’s the only parish in the Sutton division with lower per person carbon emissions on a consumption basis than the East Cambridgeshire average. The parish scores lower than the East Cambridgeshire average for every item in the list below other than waste, for which it’s exactly average.

For more information about these calculations and how they work, visit https://impact-tool.org.uk/using-the-tool

This is the second in a series of posts about the ‘carbon footprint’ of the various parishes in the Sutton division. It uses https://impact-tool.org.uk/ which is a parish-level carbon emission estimator. This gives parishes and small communities usable data on their carbon emissions – the amount of carbon (or equivalent gases like methane) produced by our activities.

The https://impact-tool.org.uk/ estimator shows carbon emissions in two ways.

• Territorial emissions are those directly produced by the parish – its buildings, transport, land, and other amenities.
• Consumption emissions include the carbon from the things we buy and use which are brought into the parish from elsewhere.

The website also shows carbon emissions for each of those two options in total, and also per household. You can also compare parishes with other parishes in the area, with the district council average, and with the national average.

So, Little Downham, which includes Pymoor – if you want to check the estimator for yourself, you’ll need to enter ‘Downham’ as the parish name. The parish generates around four per cent of East Cambridgeshire’s total carbon emissions. But per person, it generates 35.5 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year – forty per cent more than the East Cambridgeshire average. Like its smaller neighbour, Coveney, that’s because as a rural community a significant portion of its emissions are from land use and agriculture. But its housing contributes less carbon per person than Coveney, and road transport contributes more.

What about consumption – emissions including all the things we buy and use, like food, clothing, heating and transport? That’s 20.6 tonnes per person per year – rather less than in Coveney. And again like Coveney, higher than the East Cambridgeshire average of 18.4 tonnes – but only slightly so. The cause is more generally spread, with each item in the list below slightly higher than the East Cambridgeshire average.

For more information about these calculations and how they work, visit https://impact-tool.org.uk/using-the-tool

This is the first of a series of posts about the ‘carbon footprint’ of the various parishes in the Sutton division. It uses https://impact-tool.org.uk/ which is a parish-level carbon emission estimator. This gives parishes and small communities usable data on their carbon emissions – the amount of carbon (or equivalent gases like methane) produced by our activities.

The https://impact-tool.org.uk/ estimator shows carbon emissions in two ways.

• Territorial emissions are those directly produced by the parish – its buildings, transport, land, and other amenities.
• Consumption emissions include the carbon from the things we buy and use which are brought into the parish from elsewhere.

The website also shows carbon emissions for each of those two options in total, and also per household. You can also compare parishes with other parishes in the area, with the district council average, and with the national average.

So, Coveney – one of our smallest parishes, which includes Wardy Hill and Way Head. Because it’s so small, it generates only one per cent of East Cambridgeshire’s total carbon emissions. But per person, it generates 54.6 tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year – twice the East Cambridgeshire average. That’s because as a rural community nearly two thirds of its emissions are from land use and agriculture.

What about consumption – emissions including all the things we buy and use, like food, clothing, heating and transport? That’s 26 tonnes per person per year in Coveney. Again higher than the East Cambridgeshire average of 18.4 tonnes – but nothing like double. And that difference is mostly due to the high emissions from heating homes in Coveney and Wardy Hill, which is double the East Cambridgeshire average.

For more information about these calculations and how they work, visit https://impact-tool.org.uk/using-the-tool

The following planning applications in the Sutton division have been published by East Cambridgeshire District Council.

22/00032/FUL
Coveney
24 Main Street Coveney CB6 2DJ
Construction of rear extension.

22/00033/LBC
Coveney
24 Main Street Coveney CB6 2DJ
Construction of rear extension.

22/00011/FUL
Little Downham
The Cottage Hundred Foot Bank Pymoor
Replacement dwelling.

Further information can be found on the district council’s planning pages. If you would like to respond formally to the council about any planning application, comments should be addressed to the district council and not to me.  Comments may be made

• online using the council’s public access web page (the link above);
• by email to plservices@eastcambs.gov.uk;
• or by post to the Planning Department, The Grange, Nutholt Lane, Ely, CB7 4EE.

(Clue: they’re not what you might think – or what the Government tells you.)

For a long time, we’ve been told that the classic symptoms of Covid-19 are fever, cough, and loss of sense of smell or taste.

Those are the symptoms the Government tells us we need to check for, and get a PCR test if we experience.

But that list hasn’t been updated for a very long time. And those symptoms were only experienced by about half those whose data was analysed by the ZOE COVID Study at King’s College London.

Scientists took the health reports from UK contributors reporting positive cases in the ZOE COVID Study app in December 2021 as Omicron became dominant. They then compared them with data from early October when Delta was the dominant variant.

They also confirmed these findings by analysing data from a small group of contributors who had been told by the Government that their positive PCR results were suspected or confirmed Omicron infections. 

The top 5 symptoms in both periods, for both Delta and Omicron, were:

1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue (mild or severe)
4. Sneezing
5. Sore throat

More information at https://joinzoe.com/learn/omicron-symptoms

The following planning applications in the Sutton division have been published by East Cambridgeshire District Council.

21/01827/FUL
Little Downham
Land adjacent Woodlea Cophall Drove Little Downham
Proposed detached two storey dwelling and garage with access and associated site works (self-build).

21/01846/FUL
Little Downham
Poplar Tree Farm 9 Straight Furlong Pymoor
Proposed extension and change of use of an agricultural building to form one new self-build dwelling, and associated works.

21/01721/FUL
Sutton
127 High Street Sutton CB6 2NR
Proposed two-storey rear extension.

Further information can be found on the district council’s planning pages. If you would like to respond formally to the council about any planning application, comments should be addressed to the district council and not to me.  Comments may be made

• online using the council’s public access web page (the link above);
• by email to plservices@eastcambs.gov.uk;
• or by post to the Planning Department, The Grange, Nutholt Lane, Ely, CB7 4EE.