Milton Village

The annual Children’s Hospice gala is taking place on Saturday from 11am to 3pm in the grounds of Milton Hall. Entertainment, BBQ, teas, drinks, stalls, games, tractor rides, fun for all the family. Pedestrian access is via Church Lane, cars via the Pi Shurlock entrance on Ely Road.

This is now old news to those who read milton-chat but the recent activity in the field opposite Tesco was because the main sewage pipe had been broken by the company who had been instructed to do some trial bore holes as part of the preliminary investigation for the redevelopment of the site. As you […]

There has been some discussion on the milton-chat mailing list about what’s going on in the field opposite Tesco where we still had water pooling even after the hot spell. There had previously been speculation that this was down to the protective membrane having not been removed after the field was used during the A14/A10 […]

The council finance and staffing committee meets on Monday (19/5) evening at 7:30am at the parish council office. As well as the usual finance issues they will be recommending salary scales for 2008 to council and initiating a consultation with regard to appointing an Assistant Clerk whose role will include putting in grant applications for […]

A villager has complained to our county councillor, Michael Williamson, about lorries parking overnight in The Rowans. Parking for lorries using the A14 is an issue which is due to be discussed at the County Council and any evidence of parking in Milton should be sent to Michael. His email address is michael.williamson@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

At last night’s meeting Jane Coston and Rob Chapman were re-elected as chair and vice-chair respectively.

A villager wrote to South Cambridgeshire District Council to complain about the smell from the sewage works and got a detailed reply which is reproduced below with their permission. Thank you for your recent email concerning the above matter. This Department has been made aware of the odour that has been emanating from the sewage […]

The issue of the future of doctors’ surgeries throughout the land is still ongoing. Despite health secretary Alan Johnson claiming to parliament that “There is no national policy for replacing traditional GP surgeries with health centres or, indeed, polyclinics […] we are not specifying polyclinics as any part of the exercise” subsequent pronoucements from other […]

Council meets tonight. This is the council’s annual general meeting where the it appoints the chair and vice-chair for the coming year and the members of a host of committees and representatives on other bodies. The full agenda is available online. The only planning application being considered in the village is single storey side extension […]

LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60019 Bittern will be steaming past Milton at about 12:35 tomorrow (04/05) heading north and will pass the other way at about 19:30. Full timetable is online available online. Bittern is a streamline loco in the same class as our old friend the Union of South Africa, which we’ve seen […]