Explore your local wildlife with Wildlife Watch the junior branch of The Wildlife Trusts and the UK’s leading action club for young people interested in learning about wildlife in their local environment. If you care about nature and the environment and want to explore your local wildlife this is the club for you. Cambridge Wildlife […]
Milton’s Environment Booklet – can you help?
Milton’s Environment Group are putting together a booklet as part of South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Sustainable Parish Energy Partnership (SPEP). The booklet will be about the environment and sustainability, will be 12 pages and will cover the following themes: Milton Community Things You Don’t Know about Milton The Environment Group Sustainable Travel Making the Most […]
Planning and Finance & Administration Committees
Your parish council Planning and Finance & Administration Committees meet at 7pm and 7:30pm respectively on Monday (18/10) in the Bowls Pavilion. The parish council web site has the agendas for Planning and Finance & Administration online. Most of the planning applications being considered relate to Chesterton Fen but there is one in the village: […]
Police Neighbourhood Panel
The next meeting of the Histon Ward Neighbourhood Panel is this Tuesday (12/10) at Impington Village College where they be reporting on the results of there work over the last three months when their priorities included: To tackle youth related anti-social behaviour in Milton constituting ‘rowdy and nuisance behaviour’. If you have any concerns about […]
Milton Photographic Club
The October meeting of the club will be on Wednesday (20/10) at 7:45pm in the church hall. This will be a show and tell with an open theme. Bring your holiday snaps or, if last month’s talk inspired you, try some macro shots. A maximum of four images per person please. If you have slides, […]
Parish Community Care Committee
Your parish council’s community care committee, whose main role is to monitor the village’s community care warden scheme, meets this Thursday (14/10) at 11am in the Bowls Pavilion. The agenda is available online on the council’s web site.
Changes to Citi 2 and P&R Service
Starting on Monday (11/10), part of St Andrew’s Street in Cambridge city centre will be closed for emergency sewer repair works and some bus stops will be closed as a result. This will affect the Milton Park & Ride service in both directions and the Citi 2 service coming going into Cambridge (but not the […]
Spare room? Make it pay!
The Cambridge University Accommodation Service is desperate for rooms to let in the area. Primarily for visiting (UK or overseas) mature students on fixed placements (3 to 6 months) the agency are happy to advise on suitable rents and general arrangements. If you can help then you can contact them on 338099 or email accommodation.service@admin.cam.ac.uk
Energy Efficiency Campaign UK
Clarke Brunt has written to the milton-chat mailing list this week about a card he had received through the door from Energy Efficiency Campaign UK. Clarke is our de facto village expert on matters of energy efficiency so if you’re thinking of responding you might want to read what he said in his posting with […]
The Story of Milton or Middleton
Back in the early 1960s Ken Humphries, who at various times was district councillor for Milton and clerk to the parish council, wrote and published a ten page booklet called “The Story of Milton or Middleton” which he sold in the village for two shillings and sixpence. Some time ago we were lucky enough to […]

