Council Services

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 […]

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Date Set For Paper Caddy To Go

NEWS RELEASE  Council waste bosses have confirmed there will be no need for South Cambridgeshire residents to use paper caddies from mid-December, in a move to simplify the recycling process.   From 11 December 2017, residents should place used paper directly into their blue wheelie bins for recycling.

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Speed Thumps – County Highways Boss to visit Caldecote

The saga of the Caldecote Speed thumps moves into a new phase. I have it on good authority that the Head of Highways at the County Council is set to visit Caldecote on Thursday 7th October 2010 to meet and discuss with the Parish Councillors this rather long drawn out saga, with a view to […]

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Speed thumps – what the heck are those?

. As residents of Caldecote Village know only too well, driving in or out of the village means doing battle with the “traffic calming” measures installed by Taylor Wimpey years and years ago when the new housing developments were built. Looking at available records, when the new developments were approved, it was decided (not sure […]

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Merger of two Councils or Value for Money?

Money is tight, savings must be made and all that stuff. The phrase “value for money” is so “in” at the moment, its unreal. I’ve just found out  that Councillors at East Lindsey and South Holland gave the green light to the creation of the merged service company which will, they claim, save ratepayers in […]

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