Caldecote Parish Council

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 [...]

Housing charities and campaign groups have been outraged by an idea floated by Downing Street to strip housing benefits from under-25s and make them move in with “mum and dad” as a way to “make work pay” and save the UK from growing welfare expenditure. The proposal – which was floated by No 10 earlier [...]

The Young People of South Cambridgeshire now have an opportunity to have a bigger say in how their neighbourhood is run by becoming “youth councillors” in the South Cambs Youth Council. This follows on from the development of the South Cambridgeshire Young People’s Plan (YPP) which was put together with the help of young people [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

“When are we getting superfast broadband in Caldecote?” is a question I have been asked quite often lately. And with good reason. After all, it was over a year ago now that Madingley Exchange became one of the six winners of the BT Race to Infinity, for the prize of an upgrade to the exchange [...]

A new service to give local communities advance warning of 1.7 million local road works was launched on Thurday 16 February 2012. Roadworks Alerts is free to users and provides details of local road works direct to mobile phones or as automated feeds to websites. It is a new service from the ELGIN roadworks.org website [...]

Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. Dale Evans ♦ Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles Schulz ♦ God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith; the warmth of Christmas, which is love; the radiance of Christmas, which is purity; the [...]

In an apparent contradiction of its aim of being a voice for rural  life and playing its part improving rural services including transport links, South Cambridgeshire District Council Cabinet has said it has no plans to make a corporate response to the ongoing consultation on the County Council cuts to rural bus subsidy. The statement [...]

Under new rules laid down by Parliament, there is a Parliamentary constituency boundaries review being undertaken by the Boundary Commission for England (BCE). The results of the review must be reported to Parliament by 2013, but the deadline for responding to the consultation is Monday 5th December 2011. The BCE has undertaken a study of [...]

Following on from the very cold winter of 2010/11, the government is keen to assist everyone to keep warm this winter by offering insulation grants.  It is common knowledge that a lot of heat is lost through walls and the loft of houses, 25% through badly insulated lofts, and 35% through un-insulated walls. This is [...]

The Young People of South Cambridgeshire now have an opportunity to have a bigger say in how their neighbourhood is run by becoming “youth councillors” in the South Cambs Youth Council. This follows on from the development of the South Cambridgeshire Young People’s Plan (YPP) which was put together with the help of young people [...]

  Cambridgeshire County Council decided last municipal year, to remove rural bus service subsidies from all rural routes in the county, a decision that was bound to disturb the lives of those who depend on bus services to get out and about. The decision was taken without any consultation whatsoever with residents, and without due [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post on the 25 per cent pay increase that the County Councillors voted for last week, the game is not over yet. Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats in a motion to Cambridgeshire County Council on December 7, will call for the increase in members’ allowances to be rescinded and the previous scheme [...]

County councillors in Cambridgeshire on Tuesday voted to give themselves a 25% rise in pay and allowances starting with immediate effect. The vote was carried by 33 to 29, with all but four of the Conservative Councillors voting for it, and all but one of the Liberal Democrat Councillors voting against it. The pay award [...]

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. [...]

As the weather begins to turn colder, for some of us, our minds begin to turn to preparing our heating systems for some vigorous use in the next 6 months. It is particularly important for those in rural areas who have oil fired heating systems.   Oil is the most commonly used off-grid energy source [...]