Little Shelford Parish Council

I have lived with my family in Little Shelford since May 1997, when I moved into 12 Church Street with Jayne, my wife, and our children Lottie and Elliott. So, we have been in the Village 24 years. The Children have now grown up and I now live in one of our thatched listed cottages at 73 High Street.

Over the years I have been involved with various aspects of Village life and I have been on the Parish Council since June 2004, so 17 years. I’m also a member of All Saints Church in the Village.

I am Chairman of two local Charities, Shelford and Stapleford Youth Initiative, a Christian Charity which runs the Youth Centre in Great Shelford and supports Youth Work across the three Villages. I am also Chairman of Cambridge Joint Playschemes, a small charity that runs Saturday activities and holiday clubs for children in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire with severe learning difficulties. I am also a Governor at Granta School, Linton (our local Special School), a member of the Little Shelford Entertainments committee and Chairman of the Little Shelford Cricket Club.

I work from home most of the time and I am a Director at PwC, the consulting and audit company, where I am a subject matter expert in Enterprise Performance Management. Most of my work is now in the UK but over my 35 years of consulting I have spent a lot of time with clients in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, and the Middle East.

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I really enjoy living in Little Shelford and have made many friends over the years. I want to make sure the Village maintains its vibrant sense of community and that’s why I believe it’s very important to support our local amenities, societies, and clubs. The Church, the Memorial Hall, the Pavilion, the Wale recreation Ground, the Garden Fields allotments, the community Orchard, Bradmere Lane and the Navigator Pub are all important assets for our community, and I do what I can to support and protect them. 

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Over the years I have developed a specific interest in local history, our village has a very rich history with many famous residents over the centuries into the current day and we are fortunate to still have very many listed buildings in our midst. I enjoy sharing this knowledge with fellow residents and hope that others will therefore continue to support the conservation of these aspects of the Village.

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I’m happy to see sensible levels of sympathetic development in and around the Village but I also believe we must work to maintain and protect the core conservation area and hold back the tide of urbanisation that could damage the Village and its sense of community.

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