Cambridgeshire County Council has funding available to help local groups and organisations create activities and events that will celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the local community. Your celebration must be inspired by London 2012, but it does not have to be a new event or activity. They would like you to […]
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Recycling Rigid Plastics
From garden furniture, plant pots, and non-electrical children’s toys – they all can be recycled in Cambridgeshire. Residents can now recycle rigid plastics as part of a new recycling scheme being launched across all of Cambridgeshire County Council’s nine Household Recycling Centres, including Milton. The new scheme is being introduced after feedback from residents who […]
Traffic News via Twitter
The County Council’s Traffic Manager’s Team continuously monitors routes in the county using information provided by traffic signals, real time bus information, CCTV and road works data – they also work closely with other agencies such as the police and the Highways Agency and share information. They are now using this information to provide traffic […]
County Council Consultation on Parking Enforcement
As you may know responsibility for parking enforcement in Cambridge City has already been taken away from the police and is now undertaken by uniformed officers provided by Legion Security. The County Council are now considering plans to do the same in the areas covered by East Cambridgeshire and South Cambridgeshire District Councils and of […]
Fewer Buses – More Real Time Bus Information
Last Tuesday the County Council cabinet, with glorious irony, approved a plan to spent £590,000 on extending the real-time bus information system around Cambridge … including Milton where our bus service is being cut. This will be the same information you can already see here on village web site. There will apparently be signs at […]
County Consultation Confirms Bus Cuts
In an outcome which will surprise no one the County Council today wrote to Milton Parish Council confirming that the cut to the evening and Sunday service on service 9 is going ahead. You can read their letter online here.
Reduction to Bus Services
After the announcement that the County Council was axing its subsidy to unprofitable bus routes which we said at the time might affected the 9/X9 service there had been rumours flying around that our Citi 2 service (which isn’t a service subsidised by the County) might also be under threat. Local councillors, both City and […]
Disabled Children’s Access to Childcare
The Cambridgeshire County Council Disabled Children’s Access to Childcare (DCATCH) project is aimed at supporting parents/carers of disabled children in accessing suitable childcare; enabling them the chance of returning to employment and/or training. It is part of the Cambridgeshire Childcare Information Service (CIS). The aim of DCATCH is to highlight that “a child with a […]
Cuts to Mobile Library Service
You will remember that the County Council announced back in July that it was cutting back on its Mobile Library service and for Milton it means that from October we go from a weekly visit (Friday one week at three locations, Saturday the other week at two locations) to a bi-monthly schedule visiting two locations […]
Cuts to Mobile Library Service
The County Council has announced that it’s cutting back on its Mobile Library service from October. In a letter to your parish council they explain the reason for the cuts and the accompanying spreadsheet (MS/Excel, 188KB) has the proposed new schedule. For Milton it means we go from the current weekly visit (Friday one week […]