I am delighted that we have already achieved one of the aims; to ensure that the School bus
route is gritted on a priority basis.
This has been a great community achievement with parents and residents standing up and together we have held the County Council to account. Efforts have included media interviews, rolling the petition out into shops, petition sessions at the school, meetings, emails, FOI’s, telephone calls, promoting the campaign on social media, articles in local village publications and ‘In Touch’ newsletters.
But three issues remain and we will continue to press for the County Council to action these issues. Pictured right: Our local MP Lucy Frazer getting behind the campaign.
The campaign was launched after countless parents of primary and secondary school
children in my community have contacted Cllr Hockney to raise their serious concerns. The aim of the petition campaign to press for action and to hold Cambridgeshire County Council to account.
Cllr Hockney has taken these County issues in addition to his District related
workload.
Pictured above: meeting parents and collecting signatures outside Waterbeach
School and below the petition in shops.
The campaign has four key aims;
(1) Recruit a Primary School crossing person and put in place an actual crossing.
(2) Add the Primary School to a Safer Routes to School scheme.
(3) Return the Secondary School bus route (Landbeach to Cottenham) to the priority gritting route list. Achieved!
(4) Ensure parents concerns about the quality/standard of County Secondary School buses are addressed.
We now have over 1,200 signatures which shows the strong feeling on the issue.
