councillors voted on Thursday to submit the new Local Plan to the government for independent examination. The plan includes a proposal for a new settlement on Waterbeach airfield which will mean that in the long term we will have a community of 8,000-9,000 homes (about five times the size of Waterbeach and a similar size […]
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Making Homes More Energy Efficient
A consortium of Cambridgeshire councils including and have secured almost £5.7m by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to help residents install insulation improvements to older and non-standard properties in the owner occupied and rental sectors. The funding will provide grants to householders to significantly reduce the cost of insulating solid wall and steel […]
Green Bin Survey at SCDC Cabinet
You will remember that we ran a survey of villagers views ‘s proposed changes to winter green bin collections. We had a total of 147 full responses and the results were passed on to SCDC. At their cabinet meeting on 13th February this issue was discussed and the minutes are now online. Under the minutes […]
Chesterton Fen and the House of Lords
Chesterton Fen, an area consisting largely of settled traveller sites north of the level crossing on Fen Road, Cambridge forms part of the civil parish of Milton and so falls into Milton Ward at . Because the development in that area was done little by little by the Travellers themselves on their own land, no-one […]
Green Bin Survey Results
You will remember that we announced a few days ago a survey on ‘s proposed changes to winter green bin collections. This closed on Wednesday evening and we now have the results. We had a total of 147 full responses (and 34 incomplete responses which we’ve not included in the results) (According to the 2011 […]
Green Bin Survey
Following on from our news about ‘s proposed changes to winter green bin collections and much debate on the milton-chat mailing list we are running a little survey to try to gauge villagers’ views on this: on what they think of the proposal, how it should be done, and how it would affect them. If […]
Changes to Green Bin Collection
‘s new budget published this week outlines how cuts to national grant funding mean further savings equivalent to £20 for every band D home are needed and, to meet the bulk of the savings target, the council is looking to re-design some of the blue bin collection rounds along with moving to a monthly green […]
Grant Grabber Service
A new “grant grabber” search facility has been launched to help communities across South Cambridgeshire gain easier access to funding for projects. The new self-serve search facility on ‘s website allows voluntary organisations, community groups or parish councils to access thousands of pounds of funding from the Council and beyond. The facility also allows groups […]
Nominations open for Community Pride Awards
The hunt has begun to find village heroes who make a big difference in small South Cambridgeshire communities. Nominations for ‘s annual Community Pride Awards have now opened, and residents are being asked to put forward names of contenders. The awards celebrate the achievements of local people who have made a significant and voluntary contribution […]
Recycling your old Directories
As the (now much shrunk) Thompson Local is again dropping onto doormats around the village a reminder that directories can be recycled in the paper caddy. See the Which bin does this go in? pages on the web site for more.
| Bins Schedule |   |
Fri, 27 December | Black Bin Collection |
Thu, 2 January | Blue Bin Collection |
Thu, 9 January | Black Bin Collection |
Thu, 16 January | Blue Bin Collection |
Thu, 16 January | Green Bin Collection |