Milton Village

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.

I’ve had comments from villagers about the increased number of bird scarers being used around the village this year so I asked Rob, who owns Rectory Farm, if he could give us an update on what’s going on. He confirmed that at least some of the scarers are his and this is what he had […]

Congratulations to Milton Country Park, who have been awarded accreditation by Walking the way to Health, a Natural England initiative. The Country Park became an accredited scheme on 25th February 2009, having successfully demonstrated that they meet the required criteria. This includes offering led walks for beginners, meeting the “Walking the way to Health” safety […]

Your parish council has a busy week this week. On Monday night full council meets. Three planning applications are being considered: a first floor extension over existing garage and part playroom at 9 Hall End, conversion of garage to an annexe at 63 Cambridge Road, and the erection of a wind turbine at Tesco. This […]