Milton Village

The next neighbourhood panel meeting will be held next Tuesday (14/10) in the Dunning Room at Impington Village College. Doors open at 7pm and the meeting will start at 7.30pm. The Panel meeting is a chance for you to speak directly with the Police about any issues that are effecting the village. You can also […]

Milton Environmental Group meets this Wednesday (22/10) from 7:30pm in the Bowls Pavilion on Coles Road. The meeting will focus on waste and recycling. Officers from both SCDC and the county council waste and recycling teams will be there to answer all your questions about waste and recycling. Now that plastic bottles are being collected […]

It’s our first plastics collection on Tuesday and SCDC are starting to worry about what’s going to happen when it goes live. Cllr Ellington, portfolio holder for environmental services, said “Until their first plastic bottle collection we urge residents to continue using their local plastic recycling banks. It is important that residents don’t stockpile their […]

Your parish council meets at the Bowls Pavilion on Monday night (6/10) and are starting early at 7pm due to the long agenda. In planning they will be considering again the application for a retirement community on the old Electricity Board site at the north end of the village. The agenda suggests that they are […]

Fen Road will be closed at the level crossing from 23:30 next Tuesday (7/10) until 07:30 the following morning.

Further to my long essay on places to take your surplus clothes and other items milton-news readers have come up with some more suggestions. Tony wrote to say that the Salvation Army have a shop in Histon at 11 High Street, CB24 9JD, which shares an entrance with Natwest bank and they have a car […]

Starting with the collection on 7th October SCDC are collecting plastics and in preparation for that you should be receiving your second green box sometime around now along with a leaflet explaining how to use it. If you haven’t done so by next Saturday (27/9) then you need to phone them on 08450 450 063. […]

Milton is plagued with people wanting to collect your cast off clothes, books and other bric-a-brac. Sometimes it’s genuine, like last week’s Scout jumble sale, most of the time it’s not. Long time readers to the milton-news list know that I used to try to alert you to every collection but they often only cover […]

Cllr Hazel Smith attended a meeting of the Old Chesterton Residents Association last week. They’re having problems with someone using a catapult to put out street lights and punch holes through toughened glass windows in shops, phone boxes and bus shelters and recently some house windows too. A problem all too familiar to us in […]

An ipod and handbag were among the items stolen in a burglary in Milton just over a week ago on Saturday (13/09). The incident happened at around 4:30 am at a house in The Oaks. Two men were seen running from the house and the handbag was later recovered nearby. The men are described as […]