Milton Village

Beavers is the junior section of the scout movement which they go into from age six to eight before they move on to cubs. One of the beaver badges requires the boys to learn about the countries climate, currency, food (they will be trying it), etc. Their leader, Theresa Feetenby is planning to do the […]

The level crossing on Fen Road will be closed this Saturday night (21/3) from 11pm until 9am on Sunday morning.

Tonight’s planning committee meeting has been cancelled. You will remember that the last full council considered the application for a wind turbine at Tesco. They recommended refusal saying: In a prominent position adjacent to a busy roundabout and will be a distraction to motorists using the highway and the busy entrance to the store. Our […]

Michael Williamson, our county councillor reported to parish council on the meeting he and others had with officers from the county council about the park and ride site. He writes: We had a very useful meeting on February 20th. Alistair Frost and Campbell Ross-Bain were there from the County Council and we had, besides myself, […]

New planning guidance with respect to Trees and Conservation Areas has just been adopted by South Cambridgeshire District Council and is available on the SCDC web site. Milton has two Conservation Areas. One at Baits Bite Lock and one including Milton Hall, the Church, bits of Fen Road and High Street near the Waggon and […]

County Council archaeologist Quinton Carroll, will be at Landbeach this Saturday (14/3), to give people and local societies a unique picture of Cambridgeshire’s history. He will be conducting a guided tour of the County Archaeology Store which contains thousands of objects and artefacts which have been discovered over the past 20 years during numerous archaeological […]

The village litter pick on Saturday 21st February collected thirty black sacks of rubbish plus a whole green container of squashed tins and another of glass bottles. Also two big Calor gas cylinders, loads of road signs and police cones, a bike frame, and a plastic chair with three legs. And that was just from […]

Helical Bar and Urban Renaissance Villages have secured planning permission for a 101 home retirement village in Milton. The joint venture partners were given permission by South Cambridgeshire District Council for the development at the redundant electricity board site in the Green Belt at Milton. The Government Office for the East of England has now […]

Despite the opposition during the last week from a number of other charity collections the scouts had a good collection on Friday evening resulting in sales exceeding £850.00 at the jumble sale on Saturday. Rob Farrington asks me to thank to everybody who helped in any way and to give his sincere apologies to residents […]

The latest edition of South Cambs magazine, the organ of South Cambridgeshire District Council, should be coming through your letterbox about now. In case you’ve missed it residents are asked what they think of it by completing this online survey.