 Good evening. I am Farooz Thompson. You're recently elected Lib Dem Cambridgeshire County councillor and North Stowe Town councillor. My division is Longstampton, North Stowe, Over, Oakington and Westwick. I'm going to keep this introduction brief as we have a packed agenda this evening. A couple of highlights from the county work. Our top priority is the environment, sustainability and the climate emergency. As a joint administration, we have committed to putting climate change and biodiversity at the heart of the council's work and the heart of its land management strategy. We have also committed to reviewing the council sustainability strategy with the aim of moving forward the next zero target to 2030. You may know we have recently been awarded the surface against sewage plastic free community with Longstampton. My role has been to ensure all food trucks that attend site do not have single use plastic. Five food trucks were awarded as a champion last year and pleased to say that North Stowe Secondary School is also a plastic free school. Another highlight for families eligible for free school meals, supermarket vouchers will be available over the summer holidays as well as the free activities for four weeks. Some of you may know that I started the fundraiser with the local district councillors last year in October to fund February half-term vouchers. During that time I found that we have over 240 families that are eligible to free school meals in seven local councils and these numbers only set to rise. One of my priorities for North Stowe is to plan a campaign for reclaiming our cycle paths. I know this has been an ongoing issue within the community for some time as roads and cycle paths will not be adopted by the county council until 2026. We need to ensure that between phase one and phase two we have all paths connected. More on this later from our county officers Tam Parry and Nigel Egger. I will be looking at safe cycling routes for the community and the pupils cycling to and from school. Over the last month I have met with North Stowe Secondary College, Urban Splash and Think Communities to bring partners together. Think Communities is a part of the county council team. Scott Liddell is our community connector at North Stowe involved currently with the art pavilions between the two schools in phase two. It is worth mentioning that the community cafe and the food bank have both recently started on a Wednesday at the community wing thanks to Beth and Mari. A problem area for the council is also road maintenance, especially potholes, block road gullies. I'm sure you are painfully aware of the short-term nature of much of the work. There is backlog and as a new administration we're not able to rectify problems overnight but the new team is going to look critically at contracts, quality of our work and drive improvements as soon as they can. You'll be pleased to know that the major flooding on B1050 just by the roundabout has been resolved and the new drains worked perfectly in our downpour last week. Another issue that I am currently dealing with is the trench along the B1050 where A14 junction from Bar Hill meets the pre-existing road. Unfortunately there's no easy solution but the team are working on something. Please contact me if you want to raise any concerns or want to get involved in any of the projects that I highlighted. I'm regularly posting on local Facebook pages so do message me. I would also share my contact details with you in the chat. Thank you. Hi everybody. For those who don't know me, I'm Richard Owen. I'm a mayor of Norstow and I moved to Norstow from Cambridge about four years ago and I think it was about the 10th house in Norstow and as we're now approaching a thousand houses. I joined the Longstown to Parrish Council about three years ago as the first Norstow resident on the council and four of us who were Norstow residents on Longstown to Parrish Council moved across to Norstow Town Council and were elected amongst the where I was the 15 elected councillors in May and I was very much honoured to be elected as the chairman of council and town mayor. You can see on the right hand side here we've got the pictures from the council website of myself and Paul Littlemore who's deputy town mayor so you can recognise us in the street and stop us about things if you want to and a screen cover from the website itself. So first a little bit of recent history so as Sarah was just saying Norstow Town Council has created officially came into being in April 2021 following the Community Governance Review and represents the areas you can see there on the official Ordnance Survey map so it's the area which used to be encompassed within Longstown Parrish Council and Botterbockington Parrish Council and we represent Norstow and Rapton Drift as the first tier of local government it's the tier of local government closest to the people. So at the elections in May we had 20 exceptional candidates who came forward and stood for election and we had 15 seats on the council so 15 independent councillors were elected there and we are truly representative of the community across pretty much every demographic so across age gender diversity location as well across all of the North State developments and Rapton Drift and we've just employed our town clerk as our first full-time employee Mark Knockert who is going to be starting next month and just here I'd like to say thank you so much to Rosie Hughes who has been our interim clerk since January and has really done so much work to get Norstow Town Council off the ground. So moving on say what do we do what are our responsibilities well town councils and parish councils have an extremely wide remit we look after quite a lot of different things but our first responsibility and our key responsibility is to represent you and to represent your interests but beyond that we've got there are several areas which will take up the brunt of the work that we have as a council so we are a key consultancy on planning applications this is becoming increasingly important as plans for the town centre and for local commercial areas so for the phase one local areas are coming up and there is a workshop which is coming up next Monday which I'll encourage as many people as possible to get involved with run by AR Urbanism who are coming up in the next lot on the agenda. We have a very active or will be a very active events and markets committee which is going to be setting up local events markets and supporting community groups. As the town grows and as community facilities become active and get built such as the sports pavilion the local community centre and the civic hub we will have the option to take over and manage these facilities and those are going to be extremely important decisions for the town council to take and leading from one of the points that the key points that Farooz was saying we really want to be leading sustainability initiatives as well because although it's a new town we want to protect and enhance the open space that we have to really protect that green space to enhance biodiversity to reduce plastic use and to make north to a really green place to live and to all of those ends we'll be working both on the things which are in our remit as well as with other councils and organisations to represent your views. So with Southcams with the Kimberchuk County Council, LNQ homes England as building continues and with other groups such as police transport etc. And to that end we're also we're working with a lot of external groups which cover a wide range of life in north stone and the surrounding area. So north stone council has seats on the phase one open spaces steering group which is where we are helping to manage with Southcams LNQ and Greenbelt the management of open spaces and ensure that that is taken care of in a good way. We're also supporting the some of the most vulnerable people in our community through the north stone support partnership which includes membership from Canada Council Southcams and a wide range of other groups. Of course north stone has a very young demographic so we also need to ensure that there are sufficient facilities for young people to get involved in and to provide things for young people to do as well as to take care of other aspects of life in north stone. So the the Ask Pavilion project that Bruce is mentioning to ensure that we have a strong cultural and artistic life and the Heritage Building Steering Group which is run from the Northampton District Heritage Society to ensure that we don't forget the history of the history of the place that although we're a new town this area has a phenomenal amount of history that we need to nurture and remember and maintain. Sorry John can you back a slide please. Right so how do you get in touch with us? So our full council meetings are on the fourth Wednesday of every month so that the next one coming up is going to be on the 28th of July at the community wing at the Pathfinder School and every meeting has a standing item for public participation and for public questions so please do come along, take part, raise any questions that you have and all the details are on the website there northohtowncouncil.gov.uk and please do get in touch with the the town clerk so town clerk at Northampton Council or myself to raise any issues or to make sure that anything which needs to be raised goes to the obviously appropriate place so and I hope to be meeting a lot more of you over the course of the next year.