Cambridgeshire County
Competition Launched To Encourage Children To Be Creative With Recycling
How can drink cans turn into a satellite, jam jars into a window of a rocket ship, plastic drink bottles into football shirts and magazines into loo rolls? Was it Magic? Alien Forces? A Mad Scientist? Children can decide! An exciting competition for children launches this week to celebrate the power of imagination and encourage […]
Children’s Centre Consultation Now Live!
Finally, the “consultation” promised by Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) on the future of the Children’s Centres is now live. The proposed changes will affect the Centre in Caldecote, co-located with the Caldecote Primary School, as part of the wider changes to be made in South Cambridgeshire, which you will find
Children’s Centres in South Cambridgeshire Are Changing
Once again, we find that a vital service to our communities, the Children’s Centres, is to be “redesigned” in a cost-cutting exercise by the Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC). The Council hopes to achieve a savings of
Lib Dems Condemn Tory Plan to Cut Dial-A-Ride Funding as “Heartless”
A Tory plan to cut funding for the county’s Dial-a-Ride and other community transport schemes which could lead to their total collapse has been attacked as “brutal and heartless” by Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats. They say the move, in the Conservatives’ proposed County Council budget would leave elderly and disabled people isolated and vulnerable across […]
Cambridgeshire County Council missed opportunity to solve problem at traffic congestion hot spot
When a good opportunity presents itself to solve a long standing problem, as tax payers we would expect our councils to take the opportunity and alleviate the suffering that the problem is causing. But that does not seem to be the case with Cambridgeshire County Council and the problem of the A1303 Madingley Road between […]
Communities secretary Eric Pickles criticizes Cambridge as too anti-car
It is rare that I agree with sentiments expressed by a government minister, and this is one of them, especially in the ongoing context of the transport plans for Bourn Airfield Development as contained in the draft county council transport strategy document. Cabinet minister and Communities secretary Eric Pickles lashed out at Cambridge city’s […]
New Transport Strategy for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire
The County Council is preparing a new Transport Strategy for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire in parallel with the South Cambridgeshire and the Cambridge Local Plans. The draft strategy is looking at ways to improve transport in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire up to 2031, and affects the viability of the proposed Bourn Airfield Development. The […]
Bus petition with seven hundred signatures presented to county council
Transport is a fundamental requirement for those of us who live in the rural areas of our county. Some of the services cannot be run without some form of subsidy but unfortunately Cambridgeshire County Council political leaders do not seem to have grasped that and have decided to remove all subsidy to our bus services. […]
Planning and Development Minister tours growth sites in Cambridge region
Planning and Development Minister Nick Boles MP came to the Cambridge area last week on a fact finding mission to sites for thousands of new homes in the region, following confirmation that the government will be investing over a billion pounds in a major upgrade to the A14. This was a promise that had been […]
Better broadband on its way to South Cambridgeshire
At the Broadband Champions Event in April, the Connecting Cambridgshire project team indicated that we should expect to hear more in May about when the first phases of the roll-out plan would be announced. On the very last day of May, it happened … with a caveat that “there is still a lot of […]