Your Village Needs you…
Are you proud of how our village looks, do you have a few hours to spare each month to help keep the village tidy?
The Parish Council are looking for a volunteer organiser to arrange village litter picks.
The council will provide bags, pickers, gloves and high viz jackets for volunteers.
If you re interested please contact the clerk on clerk@clophill- pc.gov.uk
We are hosting a Tree Giveaway Event on Sunday 5th February, in partnership with Central Beds Council Sustainability’s Tree Giveaway Programme:
10am – 12 noon at Clophill Village Green
The trees are small saplings – or whips – which are very young trees and easy to plant. They are intended for gardens, or other land which you own. They will all grow to a decent size on a timescale of 10 to 20 years, so they need to be planted in appropriate places. The tree species are Hawthorn, Bird Cherry, Silver Birch and Field Maple. We’re able to give away 1 to 5 tree whips to interested households.
You will need to fill in a Tree Adoption Care Contract, which can be done ahead of time online, or by printing from the information pack below. The bare roots of whips need to be protected from frost and kept damp. We’ll hand them over in damp kitchen roll, so bringing a carrier bag will be helpful to get them home. They should be good to plant straightaway unless the soil is hard frozen at depth.
There’s all the information you need here, including the Tree Adoption Care Contract : CBC Tree Giveaway Information.(link to ) https://ampthillclimatechange.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CBC-Tree-Giveaway-Information.zip (can we hyperlink this info?)
Plant a Tree and Make a Difference!
Proposed Pan-Bedfordshire Bus Users’ Forum
Have yours say on Central Bedfordshire Council planning policy.
Tree Planting with the Greensand Trust
Looking for something to do this coming half term, how about planting some trees at the Clophill Lakes Nature Reserve with the Greensand Trust. Details can be found at the following link:
https://www.greensandtrust.org/Event/tree-planting-day4
A1 Closures and diversions
To carry out the work safely, we will need to close parts of the A1 between the Black Cat Roundabout and Biggleswade South Roundabout, one direction at a time, and divert traffic as detailed in the table below.
| Closure | Date/Time | Diversion |
| A1 Sandy to Black Cat Roundabout (northbound) |
Monday 16 January to Monday 23 January, 8pm to 6am (weeknights only)
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Drivers will follow the above diversion route in reverse. |
| A1 Sandy to Biggleswade South Roundabout (southbound) | Tuesday 24 January to Friday 24 February, 8pm to 6am (weeknights only)
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Drivers will take the A603 westbound from Sandy through Moggerhanger then Bedford Road, Sandy Road, Bedford Road and Cambridge Road to join the A421. They will leave the A421 at Elstow to take the A6 southbound to Clophill, where they will exit to the A507 eastbound to rejoin the A1M at junction 10. (Diagram 2)
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| A1 Biggleswade South Roundabout to Sandy (northbound) | Monday 27 February to Tuesday 14 March, 8pm to 6am (weeknights only) | Drivers will follow the above diversion route in reverse. |
How to find out more
To find out more about road improvements we’re carrying out across the East of England, please visit our website at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/east/.
If you would like more information, please contact us on 0300 123 5000, or by email at info@nationalhighways.co.uk.