Highway engineers are due to work through the night this Thursday and Friday night on a scheme to create a junction on the A10 to serve the new Park and Ride being built at Milton off Butt Lane. The works will be taking place overnight to minimise traffic disruption and throughout these works traffic will […]
Author: Paul Oldham
Parish Council Planning Committee
Meets on Monday night at 7:30pm in the Bowls Pavilion on Coles Road. Full agenda is online. They are considering only one application in the village: 264 The Rowans – two storey side and single storey front and rear extensions.
Millennium Book
If you are new to Milton and you would like to see what we were getting up to in the year 2000 please come and get a free copy of the “Milton 2000” book from Jim Daniels, the clerk to the Parish Council. Contact details here.
Build a Bird Box in the Park
As part of National Next Box Week the Country Park are holding their annual event tomorrow (Sunday, 10/2) from 10am to 3pm. You don’t need much practical experience, the boxes are made from pre-cut kits, and just need to be hammered together. It costs £5 and the Rangers can give you advice on where you […]
ecops.milton
There is another mailing list for Milton which I suspect a lot of subscribers to milton-news will also want to be on. That’s the ecops.milton list. E-cops is a service run by the local police that lets them keep in touch with the community. Here in Milton most mailings come from PCSO Scott Evans. This […]
Milton to Waterbeach cycle path
Our local Sustrans Ranger reports that the County Council have cleared the path off road shared use path from Milton to Waterbeach up the A10 of weeds/soil. It’s much wider now.
New Park and Ride Site Issues
Some villagers have written to the parish council highlighting a potential problem with the new P&R site off Butt Lane, in that one way for villagers to use it will be to drive to the end of Butt Lane in Milton, park in the street and then walk over the bridge. This has implications both […]
Parish Council Precept 2008
At last Monday’s council meeting the council identified income for 2008/09 of £18,550 and forecast expenditure of £120,490. With this in mind they agreed to precept for £101,000 which is the exactly same as last year (and works out at about £1 a week for a band D household).
Parish Plan – Help Needed
There are about 2000 residences in Milton village. We need about 50 people to distribute and collect the survey from every house. The more people involved, the easier it will be for each helper. The information will have a lot more value if it comes from most homes. Please get in touch and say you […]
Doctors’ Surgery Under Threat
Thanks to those who’ve taken up the baton and spread the word on this issue. Our MP, James Paice, is certainly aware now as several of you have written to him. Meanwhile Cambridge News picked up the story and ran a big piece on it earlier this week. Elsewhere you can see how things could […]