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17-466: Alconbury Weald is a new settlement in the civil parish of The Stukeleys , in the Huntingdonshire district, of the county of Cambridgeshire , England. The settlement lies to the north-west of the town of Huntingdon , and to the south of Peterborough . The site was previously part of RAF Alconbury , with planning permission for the first phase of the new settlement being granted in 2014. It

34-526: A cost-saving scheme, the county council announced plans to move to a smaller purpose-built facility at Alconbury Weald , a new settlement being developed on the RAF Alconbury site in the civil parish of The Stukeleys , to the north-west of the town of Huntingdon. The site at Alconbury Weald had historically been in the county of Huntingdonshire , which had been absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974. The county council's proposed move to Alconbury Weald

51-440: A municipal building on Emery Crescent, Alconbury Weald , Cambridgeshire , England, built in 2019–2020. It is the headquarters of Cambridgeshire County Council . Cambridgeshire County Council was created in 1889 and was previously based at various premises in the county town of Cambridge , notably including County Hall, Cambridge from 1914 to 1932 and Shire Hall, Cambridge from 1932 to 2021. In December 2017, as part of

68-550: A site for a possible new railway station on the Great Northern Railway , which skirts the eastern edge of the site. Residents began occupying the first new homes on the site in 2016, with the first school on the site opening in September 2016. In 2018, Cambridgeshire County Council decided to vacate its former headquarters at Shire Hall, Cambridge and move to a new building at Alconbury Weald. The new building

85-598: Is close to the A1(M) motorway . Cambridgeshire County Council moved its headquarters from Cambridge to New Shire Hall at Alconbury Weald in 2021. The Royal Air Force station at Alconbury opened in 1938, and was subsequently also used from 1942 by the United States Army Air Force , with operations continuing at the base after the Second World War had ended. By 2009 flying operations from

102-507: Is one of the larger solar farms in England. It started power generation in March 2014 and has a peak capacity of 24.7MWp; enough to power over 7,000 households. [REDACTED] Media related to The Stukeleys at Wikimedia Commons This Cambridgeshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald New Shire Hall is

119-723: The A1 road just outside the western border of the parish, although the Alconbury grade-separated intersection was built in December 1964, by A. Monk Ltd. The 6.5 miles Huntingdon - Godmanchester bypass was also built by A. Monk Ltd, of Padgate for £6m from on Monday 4 June 1973, to finish in the summer of 1975. The dual-carriageway bypass opened as the A604 on Tuesday 30 September 1975, for Huntingdonshire County Council. Cambridgeshire County Council has its headquarters at New Shire Hall on

136-701: The Council Tax . In 2015, The Stukeleys parish council had nine members; meetings were held on the first Monday of a month either in Great Stukeley Village Hall or in Little Stukeley Village Hall All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight . The parish of The Stukeleys was created on 1 April 1935 from the merger of the two former parishes of Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley. In 2011,

153-489: The Alconbury Weald development in the parish. The Stukeleys has its own elected parish council that is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including the allotments, street lighting, play areas, grass cutting and tree planting . It helps to maintain and extend the paths in the built area and the countryside, provides the bus shelter, litter, dog-waste and salt bins. A committee of

170-468: The base had ceased, although the American air force continued to use part of the site. Most of the redundant land at RAF Alconbury, including the former runway, was sold to a development company, Urban and Civic, in 2009 for £27.5 million. The old airfield had straddled the civil parishes of Alconbury (after which it was named) and The Stukeleys , with many of the buildings on the site closely adjoining

187-477: The new settlement of Alconbury Weald being built on the old RAF Alconbury site. The parish lies just north-west of Huntingdon . As well as the two villages, the parish also includes Huntingdon racecourse . The East Coast Main Line runs across the eastern edge of the parish. The A14 road , until 2022, ran south-east to north-west across the western half of the parish and the dual-carriageway has junction with

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204-411: The parish council reviews all planning applications and makes recommendations to Huntingdonshire District Council, which is the planning authority for the parish. The parish council also represents the views of the parish on issues such as local transport, policing and the environment. The parish council raises its own tax to pay for these services, known as the parish precept, which is collected as part of

221-495: The parish covered an area of 4,552 acres (1,842 hectares) and so the population density for The Stukeleys in 2011 was 188.4 persons per square mile (72.7 per square kilometre). A solar farm was built towards the village of Abbots Ripton, just inside the parish boundary at 52°22′30″N 0°12′00″W  /  52.375°N 0.200°W  / 52.375; -0.200 . It covers an area of 150 acres (61 hectares), contains over one hundred thousand photovoltaic solar panels and

238-828: The village of Little Stukeley . The parish boundaries were redrawn in April 2010 to put the whole of the site into the parish of The Stukeleys. In 2011, the UK Government designated the Alconbury Enterprise Zone covering the site, to encourage development delivering new jobs and homes in the area. Planning permission was granted in October 2014 for up to 290,000   m of employment floorspace and up to 5,000 homes, with supporting infrastructure and facilities, including shops, schools, health and leisure facilities and open spaces. The application also reserved

255-464: Was approved by the full county council in May 2018. The county council decided to name the new building at Alconbury Weald "New Shire Hall". It was built by contractors R. G. Carter to plans by the architectural firm of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris , with construction work starting in December 2019. The new building was reported to cost £18.3 million. The final committee meeting to be held at Shire Hall

272-477: Was named "New Shire Hall", with the council's first committee meeting there being held in September 2021. In the 2021 Census, Alconbury Weald had a population of 1,221. Urban & Civic: Alconbury Weald The Stukeleys The Stukeleys is a civil parish in the district of Huntingdonshire , in Cambridgeshire , England, consisting of the villages of Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley , and

289-462: Was on 12 March 2020. Meetings were then held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic for the rest of 2020 and first part of 2021, during which time the council vacated Shire Hall and moved to New Shire Hall, with the first committee meeting at New Shire Hall being held in September 2021. An official opening ceremony was held on 8 July 2022, and the first meeting of the full county council to be held in

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