South Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire District Council is nominated for Award
Recent good news to rave about is that innovative work by South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) officers who help councillors in their role as community champions has been recognised by a national body. SCDC’s democratic services team has been shortlisted by The Municipal Journal for best team in their field. Winners of the prestigious local […]
Super Fast Broadband in slow going
Yesterday, the Madingley Exchange Race To Infinity Team received the latest update from BT, relating to the progress of the target dates for super fast broad band (SFBB). The statement reads, “Thank you for forwarding the comments from your campaign team, I understand their frustration and I am happy to confirm that we have not […]
Cambridge Airport Opens New Route to Burgundy France
Flyers from Cambridge Airport have been handed a new service to the Burgundy region of France, starting this summer. Cambridge Airport says that European regional airline, Danube Wings, will launch its first ever UK scheduled services from the Cambridge region with twice-weekly non-stop flights to the Dole-Jura Airport starting in June. The regional airport of […]
Bus Subsidies – What Cambridgeshire County Want You To Know
Recently, we received the brief below from the Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) Passenger Transport Service, to inform about what CCC is doing with bus subsidies and the so called Cambridgeshire Future Transport (CFT) Project. Enjoy ….. __________________________________ Around 80 per cent of public transport in Cambridgeshire is run commercially with the remaining 20 per cent […]
Sunny South Cambridgeshire is Open for Business with Cambridge Plus
According to a recent article by Cambridge First, local business leaders have welcomed a ‘one-stop shop’ website aimed at making it easier to do business in South Cambridgeshire. The Cambridge Plus site at www.cambridge-plus.com, brings together information about what the district can offer businesses, and a picture of what life is like in South Cambridgeshire. […]
Winning the Local Government Challenge for South Cambridgeshire
Paul Knight, Senior Policy and Performance Officer at South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC), has won the final of the Local Government Challenge 2011. . Paul’s prize in the Local Government Challenge was a £10k scholarship, which he’ll use on a project to benefit the residents of South Cambridgeshire, along with additional funding he has managed […]
SCDC Business Step Up Competition
South Cambridgeshire District Council’s (SCDC) recently announced the launch of the Business Step Up competition, which is being run again following the success it enjoyed last year. This is in recognition of the important role that businesses play in creating and maintaining the prosperity of South Cambridgeshire. Business Step Up seeks to encourage local people […]
South Cambridgeshire issues Call for Sites
Local communities, land owners and developers are being asked to suggest sites for possible new housing development in South Cambridgeshire. This comes as the Planning Policy team starts work on the next stage for the new South Cambridgeshire Development Plan that will set the strategy for, and locations of, new development in the district […]
Coalition – what coalition?
I attended my first full Council meeting barely two weeks after the elections in May. It was also the Annual General Meeting, and as I didn’t know what to expect, I went in eager to see how things worked and all that. What transpired was so unexpected, so inexplicable, so outrageous that it took a […]
Government to review Guided Bus Policy
It was revealed yesterday that Government transport chiefs are to look at options for reviewing the guided bus policy and will “draw on the Cambridgeshire experience”. This came about following the call by the Cambridge City MP Julian Huppert, for a public enquiry into the guided bus scheme being built in Cambridge. . . The […]