Milton Village

Some bus stops in St Andrew’s Street are due to be temporarily moved from today, Monday 28th January, as part of Stage Four of the Cambridge Core Traffic Scheme. This affects our Citi 2 service which from today will drop off and pick passengers up from a temporary stop at the front of the existing […]

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been talking to the doctors at Milton surgery about the issue of proposed changes to their contract with the Government. Essentially they’re faced with two issues. First their current funding is been cut by £15,444 per year, this is before you even consider the effects of inflation. This […]

New telephone directories should be being dumped on your doorstep around now (creating a minor crime hazard in itself, but that seems to be a battle we’ve long since lost) so the next question is what to do with the old one. The South Cambs web page on this doesn’t explicitly say so I phoned […]

Readers will long memories will know that a new town at Waterbeach airfield was the alternative option to Northstowe. It lost, which was good news for Milton. Now it’s back as the developers are suggesting it as a potential site for an “eco-town” called Denny St Francis. Although development there is opposed by your local […]

Birdwatchers who want to get some good ‘spottings’ for the annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch can make their way to Milton Country Park this weekend. Host to a wide range of birds including green woodpeckers, jays, kingfishers and even the occasional buzzard, the Park is a great place to participate in the birdwatch and it […]

Jim is asking if anyone connected with an activity which takes part in the village, so clubs, churches, etc can check their entries in the village directory and email him if anything needs updating.

Traditionally if you spotted a problem in Milton which required council intervention the best way to report it, especially if you weren’t sure which council you needed to speak to, was to report it to the parish council clerk Jim Daniels who would then pass it on to the right people. Some time ago someone […]

Milton (along with Landbeach and Waterbeach) has been plagued with “brown outs” for the last week or so culminating with a number of short power cuts yesterday afternoon and evening. Today I’ve spoken to an engineer at EDF and the news is not good. The fundamental problem that they have is that one of the […]

All Saints’ Church would like to invite you enjoy a delicious breakfast and good company on Saturday 26th January 8:30-10am in the Church Hall at All Saints’ Church when the speaker will be their curate Rev. Dr. Eleanor Williams. Breakfast will be served from 8:30am and Eleanor will speak on “Living on the edge” from […]

Both planning and finance committees are meeting on Monday night. Agendas are available online. Planning will be discussing an application to convert 9 Cambridge Road into 2 x one bedroom dwellings and 1 x two-bedroom dwelling and an application from Tesco for ‘Costa Coffee’ signs. Finance will be deciding what budget to recommend to council […]