FAQs

Huntingdonshire Futures is a new Place Strategy that is intended to shape a shared vision for the future of Huntingdonshire for the next 30 years. It will articulate Huntingdonshire’s aspirations and ambitions - taking into account its unique features, location, planned future growth, infrastructure requirements and technological advancements.

At the heart of Huntingdonshire Futures is understanding what is most important to residents, communities and stakeholders within our key towns and rural areas and across Huntingdonshire. This insight will enable the strategy to articulate our ambitions and aspirations for our place, people, economy, and the environment. 

We are living in a world of change, and that change is getting faster as seen during the Covid-19 pandemic. We want to embrace this change to make sure we maximise the opportunities this presents. Huntingdonshire Futures will help us build on our strengths but also protect and preserve what is most important to our residents, communities and businesses now and for generations to come.

The development of Huntingdonshire Futures is one of Huntingdonshire District Council’s (HDC) priorities for 2022/23. While it is expected that HDC will ‘hold the ring’ in the development of Huntingdonshire Futures, this is a strategy that will be co-developed. It will look and feel different to previous HDC led strategies and plans. It will be developed and owned by all partners. Part of the approach will also be to ensure public feedback is heard by other agencies, to ensure that together we can influence better outcomes for our residents and communities, whilst recognising that we are operating in a tight fiscal environment.

Yes! This is an opportunity to help shape Huntingdonshire as a place to live, work and play for the next 25 to 30 years. By having your say you can help us ensure that we have a greater understanding of what is important to you and how that can influence future plans and projects.

As well as engaging and visiting projects, groups and organisations across Huntingdonshire, you can come and talk to the project team at one of our pop-up events.  We’re here to listen to what you think about the future of your community.  Have a conversation with us about the future of Huntingdonshire at:

• Huntingdon Carnival, Saturday 13 August 2022
• St Ives Farmers Market, Saturday 20 August 2022
• St Neots Farmers Market, Saturday 27 August 2022
• Ramsey Street Market, Saturday 3 September 2022
• Little Paxton Flower and Veg Show, Saturday 10 September 2022

Focus Groups

We’re looking for local people to join the conversation and take part in focus groups to explore the ‘what if’s’ that will define our areas future. 

Anyone who would like to join a focus group session should visit the Huntingdonshire Future Eventbrite page and register. 

Online Engagement 

This website will be used to keep our community up to date as the strategy starts to come together.   There are also a range of tools you can use to comment share your ideas.   

You can join our mailing list by Registering on the Home Page or by following Huntingdonshire District Council on Facebook (@HuntingdonshireDC) and on Twitter (@huntsdc).