Milton Village

PCSO Claire Whiteman is holding a surgery at the Milton Community Centre next Friday (27/2) from 11am to noon. Please feel free to come a long and have a chat regarding any neighbourhood concerns or priorities.

The club meets this Wednesday (18/2) at 7:45pm, at Milton Church Hall in Church Lane. All are welcome, just turn up. The main item is a talk entitled “If only you had…” by Gerry Metcalfe. Gerry is well known to regular attendees. In his own words he has “been an East Anglian Federation judge for […]

This Sunday (15/2), the Friends of Milton Country Park, have an annual event for children to make bird nesting boxes. The children are guided through making a wooden bird box, with a basic hinged roof. They can then take the box away to put up in their own garden. No need to pre-book, just come […]

Your parish council meets on Monday night. The full agenda is on the village web site here. The only planning application being considered in the village itself is for a two storey front extension and first floor extension over garage at 136 The Rowans. This is the meeting where the council will agree its budget […]

As you’ll have seen from the banners adorning the Tesco roundabout the Tony Raymond Boutique, the bridal gowns and accessories shop on Coles Road, closed this weekend. But it’s not all bad news: it’s being replaced by Claudette Couture which describes itself as a designer bridal boutique.

Once again we appear to have young men in the village in orange jackets intent on getting you to switch to a different power supplier. Claiming to be from Scottish Power who “are responsible for supply in your area” (they’re not) they ask to see your bill as they have been getting reports of “people […]

New directories are coming through our letterboxes at the moment so a reminder that your old one goes in the green box. (There’s also been a change in policy on Yellow Pages – they used to be green bin but now they’re green box too.)

The level crossing on Fen Road will be closed this Saturday night (31/1) and next (7/2) from 11pm until 8am on Sunday morning.

Speedwatch is a programme using volunteers to monitor the speed of vehicles and record the details of those exceeding the speed limit in their community. Details are noted and the information passed to the police. Letters are sent to the registered keepers of the vehicle advising them of the circumstances and requesting their co-operation to […]

The outline planning application for a Retirement Development at the Old Transmitter Site, Ely Road, Milton (the former EDF Depot) was approved by SCDC last week. It now goes to the Secretary of State as a small portion of the land is Green Belt. The applicants will then have to put in a full application, […]