Milton Village

This Sunday, 17th August Milton Country Park is hosting its first Celebration of Summer. From 11am – 4pm there will be a wide variety of events taking place in the Park including: Cambridge Story Tellers Brass Band – Soham Comrades (2pm-3pm) Free Running Clinic Rowing competition (on shore in machines, not on the lakes!) Photography […]

Milton’s vet surgery, which is now part of Village Vet, is holding a blood donating session for dogs on Sunday, 31st August. If you would like your dog to be considered as a donor then just like we humans there are certain criteria they need to meet. Donors should: Be fit and well Have a […]

This Sunday, 17th August Milton Country Park is hosting its first Celebration of Summer. From 11am – 4pm there will be a wide variety of events taking place in the Park including: Cambridge Story Tellers Brass Band – Soham Comrades (2pm-3pm) Running Clinic for joggers Rowing competition (on shore in machines, not on the lakes!) […]

We have had reports of a man going round selling stuff for school children door to door to “help the school”. Unsurprisingly no one is answering the phone at Milton Primary School but it seems unlikely that this is true. Door to door sellers require a “tinker’s licence” which is issued by the police. If […]

Helical (Milton) Ltd have withdrawn their application for a retirement village on former EDF site off Ely Road at the north end of the village in order to “tie up some loose ends”. The proposal has been amended by the reduction in units from 121 to 101 but the promised benefits to the village remain […]

Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust have appointed AE Catering Ltd to take over the running of the café at the Visitor Centre in Milton Country Park. They generally trade under the Café Diem brand name and that’s the name they are using at the Park, offering Fair Trade coffee and a variety of other hot and […]

This month’s parish council meeting voted to support Helical (Milton) Ltd’s application to redevelop the former EDF Depot and Training Centre on Ely Road as “121 retirement units (including restoration of North Lodge for use as a retirement dwelling) one wardens unit, visitor accommodation, central facilities building, provision of formal & informal open space, associated […]

Our PCSO, the third in the position since the role was introduced, has now left to train as a police officer. No replacement has been appointed yet which is unfortunate timing given we’re now into the school holidays when previously PCSOs have been vital for maintaining a police presence in the village.

At this month’s parish council meeting a report was circulated detailing the problems of litter, graffiti intimidation by groups of youth loitering in the passageway down the side of the store and it was suggested that the council might ask Tesco to consider blocking off the walk way with a new path from The Rowans. […]

The Maize Maze is back in operation for the Summer at Rectory Farm on the bypass. It opened last Saturday and will remain open until 2nd September. It’s open from 10am to 5pm each day with last entry being at 4:15pm. There’s lots more to do beside the maze too. See their web site for […]