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Media

Cambridge Evening News (12 March 2008)

Cambridge Evening News (17 March 2008)

Cambridge Evening News (09 April 2008)

Times Online (10 April 2008)

Cambridge Evening News (11 April 2008)

Cambridge Evening News (17 April 2008)

Cambridge Evening News (22 April 2008)

Cambridge Evening News (20 May 2008)

Appendix 1

Critical review of CCC Road Safety Assessment Report

Pages 1 to 5 - Pages 6 to 9 - Pages 10 to 12 - Pages 13 to 15 - Attachment

Includes:- review text, maps, photographs, route measurement and detailed road traffic accident record for both villages

Appendix 2

Cllr David Jenkins writes to Cambridge News (23 March 2008)

Girton Parish Council Motion (16th April 2008)

Oakington & Westwick Parish Council letter (31 March 2008)

Council Cabinet Meeting Minutes - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Cabinet Strategy Decision (July 2007)

CO2 Calculation for Parents Driving Cars to IVC

Histon & Impington Parish Council Objection to Northstowe (excerpt)

Views of Oakington Children

Girton Parish News (submitted 16 March 2008)

Cllr John Reynolds in Girton Parish News

Letters of support - Revd. Will Adam - Cllr Matthew Bradney - Cllr Neil Davies - Cllr David Jenkins - Principal and Governors of IVC - Vanessa Kelly Impington & Histon Parish Council - Girton Glebe School

Mrs Ann Bonnett Governor of Girton Glebe

Letter from Safer Cycling Tutors (8 April 2008)

Letter from Safer Cycling Tutor - David Cleaver (3 March 2008)

Letter from IVC Governors (7 March 2008)

Further support from Cllr David Jenkins (9 April 2008)

Further support from Cllr Matthew Bradney (9 April 2008)

Letters of support from Andrew Lansley OBE MP - 1 - 2

Cambridgeshire Constabulary Speed Check

Letter from Sustrans

Correspondence with - Mr Andrew Lansley MP OBE - Cllr John Reynolds (and email) - Adrian Lodes of CYPS

Appendix 3

Road Traffic Accident Map

"Billy's Crossing Video" (You-Tube.com)

 
 
 
 

We Win !!!

21 March 2008

The council's decision to withdraw the free school bus was overturned today after a joint appeal from the two villages was heard by an independent panel of councillors at The Guildhall.

Read the full verdict here

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Contact GOSH

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Drive Slow 7th May

Parents and children provided an example of what the removal of the school would do to local rush hour traffic by getting in their cars and driving to IVC.

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e-Petition tops 400!

e-petition reaches a milestone shortly after the protest march

e-Petition reaches 467 signatures !

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Impingtonbus

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Protest March - 16th April

Parents of children from Oakington and Girton met along the route to IVC in a march protesting against the council's decision to withdraw the free school bus.

Attended by about 100 children and parents, watch the BBC coverage of the demonstration here and Cambridge Evening News here

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Appeal Handover - 11th April

The GOSH committee members handed over appeal documents to council officials on the steps of Shire Hall.

Shire Hall steps on 11th April 2998

 

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